Tensions run high as Israeli forces face off with residents and demonstrators in Sheikh Jarrah

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Palestinians and pro-Palestine supporters were seen being pushed away and dragged by the Israeli forces in East Jerusalem's neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Saturday. The police were also seen firing a water cannon and taking down balloons in the colours of the Palestinian flag. "We just got out of the car. We haven't done anything. I haven't been home since the morning. I just reached now. The officer started to challenge my daughter. Look at her arm. And the other officer pulled her hair and stripped her from all of her clothes in the car," a Palestinian mother said. Violence has erupted over the last week amid protests in East Jerusalem over possible evictions of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. Clashes that began at the Al-Aqsa compound escalated into an exchange of rockets between the Gaza Strip and Israel.