They were only able to grab one item as the authorities forced them out - a plant that has been in the family for 17 years.
The Ghaith-Sub Laban family said authorities did not let them back into the house to recover furniture or medicine for the mother and another son, Rafat. Most of east Jerusalem’s 350,000 Palestinian residents are crammed into overcrowded neighborhoods where there is little room to build. Today, more than 220,000 Jews live in east Jerusalem, largely in built-up settlements that Israel regards as neighborhoods of its capital. Israel considers the entire city its capital, while the Palestinian seek east Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state. Jerusalem’s Old City, home to holy sites of three monotheistic faiths, was captured by Israel along with the rest of east Jerusalem during the 1967 war and later annexed in a move unrecognized by most of the international community.
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