Israeli administrator intends to return ‘office’ in Sheik Jarrah

Israeli extreme right administrator Itamar Ben Gvir plans to return an office in the Sheik Jarrah area in involved East Jerusalem in a move liable to cause pressure in the midst of removals of Palestinians from the area, Israeli media revealed.

Yedioth Ahronoth paper said BenGvir needs to set up an office again in Sheik Jarrah “to help the Jews living in the area.”

In May 2021, the official moved his office to the area yet he was kept from moving to the region by the public authority of then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over apprehensions of acceleration in the midst of pressures between the Palestinians and Israel over home removals.

In the previous year, pressures ran intense in Sheik Jarrah after an Israeli court requested the expulsion of a few Palestinian families for Israeli pioneers.

Beginning around 1956, a sum of 37 Palestinian families have been residing in 27 homes in the area. Notwithstanding, illicit Jewish pilgrims have been attempting to push them out in view of a regulation endorsed by the Israeli parliament in 1970.