Israeli police evict Palestinian family from Sheikh Jarrah home

Authorities demolish house in East Jerusalem neighbourhood in early morning raid after standoff

Israeli police have forcibly removed a Palestinian family from their home in Sheikh Jarrah, the flashpoint occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood where the issue of evictions helped trigger a round of fighting between Israel and Hamas last year.

Around a dozen police officers arrived at the Salhiya family's house in the early hours of Wednesday, dragging the 15 occupants outside and then demolishing the structure with a bulldozer. The eviction was the first to be successfully carried out in Sheikh Jarrah in nearly five years.