【英文】大赦国际报告：以色列对巴勒斯坦的种族隔离：残酷统治制度与危害人类罪（258页）

On 18 May 2021, Palestinians across cities and villages in Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza  Strip closed their offices, shops, restaurants and schools, abandoned construction sites, and refused  to report to work for the whole day. In a display of unity not seen for decades, they defied the territorial  fragmentation and segregation they face in their daily lives and observed a general strike to protest their  shared repression by Israel.  The strike was sparked by the Israeli authorities’ plan to evict seven Palestinian families from their homes in  Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian residential neighbourhood near the Old City in East Jerusalem, which has been  repeatedly targeted by Israel’s sustained campaign to expand illegal settlements and transfer Jewish settlers.  

To stop the threatened evictions, the Palestinian families launched a campaign on social media under the  hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah attracting worldwide attention and mobilizing protesters on the ground. Israeli  security forces responded to the protests with the same excessive force they have been using to stifle  Palestinian dissent for decades. They arbitrarily arrested peaceful demonstrators, threw sound and stun  grenades at crowds, dispersed them with excessive force and skunk water, and fired concussion grenades at  worshippers and protesters gathered in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.