JERUSALEM—A decades-old property dispute in the divided Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah shows the depth of tensions between Jews and Palestinians over control of the contested city.
The fault lines have deepened in recent years, as a succession of Jewish associations have tried to secure court orders to evict Palestinian families they say are living illegally on land that is rightfully theirs and who haven’t paid rent in decades. Palestinians view the legal action as a way to alter the demographics of East Jerusalem in favor of the Jewish population.
