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Nora and Musfafa Ghaith-Sub Laban pose for a portrait in their home in the Old City of Jerusalem Wednesday, June 21, 2023. The family has battled Israeli attempts to force them out for the past 45 years. The campaign ended this spring, when the Israeli Supreme Court struck down their final appeal in favor of Jewish settlers contending they violated the lease. Now, Israeli authorities have ordered the eviction of the family to take place by July 13. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

As a lengthy legal battle ends, a Palestinian family braces for eviction from Jerusalem home

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Israeli police examine the scene of a car ramming attack, in Jerusalem, Monday, April 24, 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says multiple people have been attacked and wounded near a popular market in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Police say 5 wounded in ramming attack near Jerusalem market

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Orthodox Christians clergy and nuns hold candles as they arrive for the Holy Fire ceremony, a day before Easter, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected, in Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, April 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Christian faithful flock to ‘Holy Fire’ under restrictions

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads the Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 9, 2023. Since the rise of Israel's most right-wing government in history, church leaders say the 2,000-year-old Christian community in Jerusalem has come under increasing attack, with an uptick in harassment of clergy and vandalism of religious properties. Several church leaders, including the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the region, told The Associated Press they fear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ultranationalist coalition has empowered extremists. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Holy Land Christians say attacks rising in far-right Israel

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 7, 2023. The Israeli military has struck targets in the Gaza Strip, pushing the region toward a wider conflagration after a day of rocket fire along the country's northern and southern borders. The fighting follows two days of unrest at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site. As Israeli aircraft began striking Gaza, Palestinian militants quickly fired off a new barrage of rockets, setting off air raid sirens across southern Israel. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel strikes targets in the Gaza Strip as Netanyahu warns enemies will pay ‘heavy price’

By Isabel Debre and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

Israelis wave national flags in front of Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City to mark Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of the Old City during the 1967 Mideast war, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital. But Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, see the march as a provocation. Last year, the parade helped trigger an 11-day war between Israel and Gaza militants. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Report: Israel arrested no Jews over violent, racist march

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Israeli security forces escort a group of Jews outside Damascus Gate, in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Police prevented hundreds of ultra-nationalist Israelis from marching around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's Old City. The event planned for Wednesday was similar to one that served as one of the triggers of last year's Israel-Gaza war. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Gaza violence intensifies as Jerusalem clashes resume

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Israeli police is deployed in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 17, 2022. Israeli police clashed with Palestinians outside Al-Aqsa Mosque after police cleared Palestinians from the sprawling compound to facilitate the routine visit of Jews to the holy site and accused Palestinians of stockpiling stones in anticipation of violence. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Clashes erupt again near flashpoint Jerusalem holy site

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Clashes erupt at Jerusalem holy site; 152 Palestinians hurt

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Israelis run to shelters as air attack sirens goes off during a Jerusalem Day march, in Jerusalem, Monday, May 10, 2021. Explosions have been heard in Jerusalem after air raid sirens sounded. The sirens came Monday, shortly after the Hamas militant group in Gaza had set a deadline for Israel to remove its security forces from the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hamas fires rockets deep into Israel, escalating tensions

By Ilan Ben Zion and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City Monday, May 10, 2021. Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on Monday, the latest in a series of confrontations that is pushing the contested city to the brink of eruption. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

More than 300 Palestinians hurt in Jerusalem holy site clash

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

An injured Palestinian demonstrator is helped during a protest against the planned evictions of Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

More Jerusalem clashes on eve of contentious Israeli parade

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Palestinians hold Hamas movement green flags attend a protest in solidarity with Muslim worshippers in Jerusalem, in Gaza City, Friday, April. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Jerusalem tension triggers Gaza-Israel fire exchange

By FARES AKRAM and JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Israeli police scuffle with protesters in Arab neighborhood

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Israeli police clash with Palestinian crowd in Jerusalem

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Israel to investigate police shooting of disabled Arab man

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Men walk amid smoke from a dumpster fire, in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators clashed with Israeli police officers dispatched to close schools in Jerusalem and Ashdod that had opened in violation of health regulations on Sunday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel targets flights, religious scofflaws, as virus rages

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Parents of Eyah Hallaq, an autistic Palestinian man who was fatally shot by Israeli police, Khiri and mother Rana, talk during an interview In Jerusalem, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. The family says it is hopeful the officers will be prosecuted after finally confirming the existence of security-camera footage of the incident.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Family of Palestinian slain by police sees probe dragging on

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Israeli policemen stand around the body of a Palestinian at a checkpoint near Jerusalem, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. A Palestinian driver died Tuesday after he was shot by an Israeli policeman at a checkpoint in the West Bank in what police said was an attempted attack on Israeli military personnel. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli police release video of alleged car-ramming attack

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Israel: Palestinian shot and killed after stabbing policeman

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