The settler raids on homes were led by Betzalel Smotrich, a Knesset member and leader of the religious Zionist party, and the director of the Ateret Cohanim settler society.

According to local sources, the settlers tried to break into three homes in the neighborhood belonging to the families of Diyab, al-Kurd and Qasem, brutalized the families and threatened to forcibly expel them from their homes within one month.

A brawl happened with the settlers and police forces as members of those Jerusalemite families were trying to fend them off and prevent them from entering their homes.

Dozens of Palestinian families in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and Batn al-Hawa are threatened with mass displacement from their homes to make way for Jewish settlers. (ILKHA)