After those restrictions eased, tensions over a plan to evict dozens of Palestinians from an east Jerusalem neighborhood continued to fuel confrontations. It had captured east Jerusalem, which includes the Old City, in the 1967 Mideast War, along with the West Bank and Gaza. The fate of east Jerusalem has been one of the thorniest issues in the peace process, which ground to a halt more than a decade ago. In recent days, hard-line Israelis have staged other events in east Jerusalem, leading to scattered, violent altercations with Palestinians. They later removed the barriers, but then protests escalated over the threatened eviction of dozens of Palestinian families from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 10, 2021 14:48 UTC