As more protests erupted, Israel employed excessive and disproportionate force against protesters, including firing tear gas canisters, sound bombs, and skunk water, and arbitrarily arresting them, with such attacks also targeting worshipers in Al-Aqsa Mosque during the month of Ramadan. In response to Israeli excessive oppression, armed clashes started between Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements and Israeli occupying forces which resulted in the killing of 260 Palestinians, the injuring of 1,948, the temporary displacement of 113,000, and the prolonged displacement of 8,500.146 Despite the rockets launched from Gaza, the Israeli airstrikes were disproportionate (to highlight the disparity, only 7 Israelis were killed by Gaza rockets),147 indiscriminate, and deliberately attacked civilians and civilian objects, wiping out families at a time and destroying high-rise buildings, housing units, water and sanitation facilities and infrastructure, civilian structures, and businesses.148 In November 2021, the families of Sheikh Jarrah rejected a ‘proposal’ issued to them by Israel’s colonial Supreme Court in October, which required them to accept colonizer ownership of their own land and homes in order for them to be allowed to remain in their homes for 15 years as “protected tenants” while paying rent to the colonizer organization that have illegally laid claim to their land.149 As a result of the perseverance of the families of Sheikh Jarrah as well as the ongoing popular mobilization within Palestine and abroad, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a decision in March 2022 to suspend the forced displacement of the families for the time being until Israel carries out a land arrangement.150 146 OCHA, ‘Response to the escalation in the oPt | Situation Report No. 1 (21-27 May 2021)’ (OCHA, 27 May 2021) <https://www.ochaopt.org/content/response-escalation-opt-situation-report-no-1-21-27-may-2021> accessed 3 October 2022. 147 B’Tselem, ‘Fatalities: All Data – May 10-May 21 2021)’ (B’Tselem, 28 July 2022) <https://statistics.btselem.org/en/allfatalities/by-date-of-incident?section=overall&tab=overview&operationSensor=%5B%22guardian-walls%22%5D> accessed 3 October 2022. 148 Al-Haq, ‘Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Submit File to the ICC, Urge Prosecutor to Open Cases from Attack on Palestinians in Gaza in May 2021’ (Al-Haq, 24 May 2022) < https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/20043.html> accessed 3 October 2022. 149 Al Jazeera, ‘Sheikh Jarrah families reject “unjust” deal with Israeli settlers’ (Al Jazeera, 2 November 2021) <https:// www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/2/sheikh-jarrah-palestinians-reject-deal-with-israeli-settlers> accessed 3 October 2022. 150 Al Jazeera, ‘Israeli top court suspends Palestinian evictions in Sheikh Jarrah’ (Al Jazeera, 1 March 2022) <https:// www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/israeli-top-court-suspends-palestinian-evictions-in-sheikh-jarrah> accessed 3 October 2022. 27 1 Chapter displacement, home demolition, annexation, confiscation, and suppression. In April of that year, the Jerusalem District Court rejected the families’ appeals and ordered that the residents must vacate their homes by 2 May 2021. To protest this court decision and in attempts to forestall it, the families launched a grassroots campaign, which was popularized through social media under the hashtag, “Save Sheikh Jarrah”. In addition to calling for solidarity and submitting appeals to international and regional actors, a central component of this campaign was raising awareness about the violent attacks carried out by Israeli colonizers and police against Palestinians in the neighborhood. As such, residents provided around the clock documentation of this harassment, which attracted not only wide local participation and mobilization, but also international attention. Soon after, Palestinians from other areas were joining the sit-ins in Sheikh Jarrah and they held protests throughout Jerusalem, the West Bank, and 1948 Palestine against this crime of ethnic cleansing.