Matthew Lee Jan 9, 2010 | , , , August 4, 2009• Most of its present Palestinian population is said to come from expelled from Jerusalem's neighbourhood in 1948 |
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In 2008, the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the Shimon HaTzadik property belonged to the Sephardi Community Committee | In 1876, the cave and the adjoining land, planted with 80 ancient olive trees, were purchased by the Jews for 15,000 francs |
Rubin, Shira 9 May 2021 | Lawyers for the Jewish families argued that documents from the Ottoman Empire originally used to prove that a Jewish Sephardic organization had purchased the land in question in the 19th century are indeed valid, while Palestinian lawyers brought with them documents from Istanbul's Ottoman archives indicating that the Jewish organization that claims to own the land only rented it, and as such was not the rightful owner, the Kurd family claims that when they pressed the court to look at the new evidence, they were told "it's too late" |
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Jordanian and Israeli control During the , 14 April, 78 Jews, mostly doctors and nurses, were killed on their way to when their by Arab forces as it passed through Sheikh Jarrah, the main road to Mount Scopus | Impact Sheikh Jarrah is the subject of the 2012 documentary , co-directed by and and co-produced by and |
, from the original on 2011-02-11 , retrieved 2011-01-23• A smaller number hailed from other parts of Palestine, namely , and , and from other parts of the Ottoman Empire, including , , and.
28In 1947, the Jewish underground blew up a house nearby | From 1948, Sheikh Jarrah was on the edge of a UN-patrolled no-man's land between West Jerusalem and the Israeli on Mount Scopus |
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In 1956, the government moved 28 families into Sheikh Jarrah who were displaced from their homes in Israeli-held Jerusalem during the 1948 War | It is a civil dispute between Palestinian families and those of Israeli settlers, regarding who is the rightful owner of this property |
Shepherd Hotel Demolition of Shepherd Hotel, January 2011 in Sheikh Jarrah was originally a villa built for the.