Jerusalem (AP) —The Israeli Supreme Court presented a compromise on Monday to prevent the expulsion of dozens of Palestinians in East Jerusalem, Sheikhjara. And the Gaza radicals in May.

The case investigated on Monday involved a total of four Palestinian families of about 70.

The Israeli lower court has approved the eviction of four families. They determined that their homes were built on Jewish-owned land before Israel was founded in 1948.

However, in light of the final proceedings from the residents, the court proposed a compromise that would give them a “protected” state.

Ahmad Amara, a consultant to the residents’ legal team, said the deal would protect them from evictions for years, but the legal ownership issue remained unresolved.

He said the court had given the side a week to respond.

The Supreme Court was scheduled to rule in May, but postponed it because the Attorney General demanded more time to consider the case.

The threatened eviction of peasants fueled protests and clashes towards the war, causing the trials of a new coalition government in Israel, including three reconciliation parties and a small Islamic faction. For unity, the government sought to avoid the Palestinian problem in order to avoid internal division.

Prior to the 11-day Israeli-Hamas war in May, weeks of anxiety highlighted by the Israeli police’s hard-line tactics against the inhabitants and the demonstrators who supported them drew international attention. The ceasefire came into effect on May 21, but a long-term campaign by Jewish settlers to expel dozens of Palestinian families continues.

Settlers have been campaigning for decades to drive families out of the densely populated Palestinian neighborhood, just outside the walls of the Old Town, one of East Jerusalem’s most sensitive areas. I did.

Settlers say the house was built on land owned by the Jews before the 1948 war surrounding the creation of Israel. Israeli law allows Jews to regain such property. This is a right denied to Palestinians who lost their land and home in the same conflict.

Jordan ruled East Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967. Families who became refugees during the 1948 war say Jordanian authorities provided them with homes instead of abandoning their refugee status.

The situation changed after Israel occupied East Jerusalem with the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Middle East War and annexed it in an internationally unrecognized move. Palestinians want all three territories for future conditions and consider East Jerusalem as the capital.

In 1972, a group of settlers told their families that they were invading Jewish-owned land. It was the beginning of a long court battle and culminated in the last few months with orders to evict peasants against 36 families in Sheikhjara and two other East Jerusalem districts.

Israeli rights groups estimate that more than 1,000 Palestinians are at risk of being expelled, saying that other families are also vulnerable.