RAMALLAH, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Palestine on Friday condemned what it termed as "the endless and brutal Israeli practices and actions" against the Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said it was reacting to the storming of a Palestinian house in the neighborhood, noting that "breaking into this house is an Israeli message and a response to the international consensus that rejected the demolition of homes in Sheikh Jarrah."
The ministry called for immediate international and American intervention to end the ongoing Israeli aggression.
Palestinian eyewitnesses in Sheikh Jarrah told Xinhua that clashes broke out in the neighborhood between the Palestinian residents and Israeli police after Israeli soldiers and right-wing activists stormed the Palestinian home on Friday night and tension was running high.
The Palestinians want to declare East Jerusalem, which includes Al-Aqsa Mosque, the capital of their future state, while Israel insists on considering unified Jerusalem as its capital. ■
