“Budour, I wonder from where you are sitting, you see what's happening in eastern Ukraine and you have seen, you've been living with this occupation, but specifically with Golan Heights, which was an invasion, or occupation of territory that belongs to Syria and yet nobody's talking about sanctions against Israel, nobody ever has for doing that. Why is this? Why this inconsistency?” asks Mark Seddon.

In this week’s show, Mark Seddon speaks with Deep Dive regular, Budour Hassan, a Palestinian writer and legal researcher at the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), for the latest news on what's really happening on the ground in Sheikh Jarrah.

Examining the recent attempts to displace the Salem family of 12, including six children, from their family home of 70 years in Sheikh Jarrah Budour exposes the wider systematic regime of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians Israel wields to facilitate its demographic ambitions across Jerusalem and beyond.

Former UN General Assembly President speaks to Mark Seddon on Monday 24th May.

“Before I go to the battle itself, as you asked about international law, as you yourself made clear, Israel as an occupying power, has to obey the law which makes clear that the protected population has to be protected against forcible transfer of it under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. And this is what Israel has been doing, not just now but in fact for years.”

Jan Kavan

Jan Kavan speaks to Mark Seddon on Monday 24th May:

“Because let me remind you as you say, the law makes clear that harm to civilians must be proportionate to the military advantage derived from any attack. And this is clearly has not happened here. It is not proportionate at all. Despite what Israel claims, many buildings, about one thousand buildings, have been destroyed, but many of them cannot be described as military targets at all.”

Jan Kavan

Dr Mustafa Barghouti speaks to Al Jazeera English on Monday May 10th:

“What you see is probably a new intifada. A new popular uprising against injustice and against occupation and against persecution and oppression and against a system of apartheid. Which is considered by international law as crimes, crimes against humanity.”