Israeli Police are in a standoff with a Palestinian man who took out a gas cylinder onto the roof of his home in the Jerusalem flashpoint district after facing the family eviction, and Police are standing with him in his support.

According to sources, Mohammed Salhiya, who is the residence of Jerusalem, had intimidated to set himself on fire if the removal order from the Sheikh Jarrah area of Israeli annexed East Jerusalem would continue further.

However, Salhiya’s family has been facing an eviction danger since 2017, from the time when his homeland was allocated to the government for school construction.

According to Police and the Jerusalem municipality went to his home early in the morning of January 17 to carry out the procedure of eviction order. However, Salhiyas ignored “countless opportunities” from the municipality to leave the land as ordered.

As per the Salhiya family member views, “Abdallah Ikermawi” “We’re living here in this house since the 1950s, he told when he was on the roof of his property.”

He added, “We don’t have any place to go, and in my family, we’re 15 members, including children.”

The 11-day Gaza war between Isreal and Palestinians exploded last year, fuelled by anger Sheikh Jarrah, where families got the battled eviction orders.

According to the Police, “negotiators” were at the Salhiya home after several house residents “began to strengthen themselves with a gas canister and other explosive material which can be dangerous for them and burnt them.”

However, some people said that the clashes between security forces and locals have erupted after the Police arrived but were later reduced.

Hundreds of families faced eviction orders from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah and other East Jerusalem neighbourhoods.

Occurrences encircling eviction threats change. In some cases, Jewish Israelis have climbed legal challenges to claim the land they say was illegally taken during the war that overlapped with Israel’s founding in 1948.

However, Palestinians rejected these claims and said we purchased our property legally from Jordanian authorities.

More than 200,000 Jewish settlers have since transferred into the area, fueling anxieties with Palestinians, who proclaim East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.