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Israel's Supreme Court is expected to rule on a controversial plan to evict some Palestinian families from homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. Palestinians live in most of Sheikh Jarrah's homes, but Israeli settlers have moved in to some properties, saying they were owned by Jews before the 1948 Israeli-Arab war.

Thabet Abu Rass is from the Abraham Initiatives, an NGO working toward equality for Israel's Palestinian citizens. He told Newsday:

鈥淚t is not a real estate dispute. It is a moral and political issue with the potential of inflaming the Israeli Palestinian conflict. I believe the court will rule in favour of the eviction. However, the court is unlikely to order the state to carry out the eviction. Everybody knows it is a political issue.鈥�

Photo: Palestinian activist Mona el-Kurd - who lives in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood - hugs a relative (Getty Images)