In the Palestinian east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, 
Palestinian and Jewish activists protested against impending evictions 
of several Palestinian families. Israel’s Supreme Court delayed 
its ruling after the attorney general requested help calming the 
situation. But the two decades of proceedings underscore the differing 
rights based on religion: Jews who owned property in east Jerusalem before 
the 1948 war can petition for Palestinians refugees settled there by Jordan 
in the 1950s to be evicted, while Palestinian Muslims and Christians have 
never been granted rights to their pre-war properties in Jerusalem or Israel.