As protests flourished on both sides of the Green Line and across the globe, Israeli violence escalated, culminating with the bombing of Gaza in the spring of 2021. When the ruling came down, Mohammed, who is now 23 years old, joined with his twin sister Muna and other community members to mount the #SaveSheikhJarrah campaign, which broadcast the conditions of Palestinian life under occupation and galvanized support for resistance against settler land theft. Among them was the family of writer and activist Mohammed El-Kurd. ![]() ![]() In October 2020, the Israeli magistrate court of Jerusalem, a fixture of its apartheid legal system, ruled that half of the Palestinian families in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah would be dispossessed of their homes.
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