Palestinians forced to evict from East Jerusalem homes - in pictures

A Jewish man entering a protected vehicle used to transport Jewish settlers to and from the homes they are living in the impoverished overpopulated lower income neighbourhood of Silwan. Silwan is adjacent to Islam’s third holiest site, Al Aqsa mosque.

Guards protect Jewish settlers.

Two armed Israeli guards escort a Jewish family in the street of the Batin Al Hawa section in Silwan.

Palestinian Zuheir Rajabi,, a community activist outside his home as Israeli guards escort a Jewish man carrying a lulav, a closed frond of the date palm used for prayer during the Jewish holiday of Succot.

Nur Abu Sneineh is sitting outside her home squeezing a toy sheep as she sits at the entrance of her family’s home on September 27, 2015.

Abdullah Abu Nab, 58, sits in the bedroom of his two room home in the impoverished overpopulated Batin Al Hawa section of East Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood.

Palestinian woman Shair Jehar and her son Yousef on the stairway of their home across the street from where Jewish settlers have moved in.

Abdullah Abu Nab, 58, in the yard of his two bedroom home, which he is refusing to leave despite an eviction order. He says: “I was born here. Before I came into the world I was in my mother’s womb in this house.”

Palestinian Zuheir Rajabi says that the settlers often use psychological pressure on Palestinians to persuade them to leave.

Jewish settlers are laying claims to the impoverished neighbourhood of Batin Al Hawa in Silwan, East Jerusalem. They say the homes have been purchased legitimately, but Palestinians dispute that.

Photos by Heidi Levine for The National