Last week, 21 people, including Israeli and foreign activists, were detained during a similar protest in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood, where several Palestinian families have been evicted to make way for Israeli settlers who claim legal ownership.
Israel captured east Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community.
Israel sees all of Jerusalem as its "eternal and indivisible" capital. The Palestinian want to make the city's eastern sector the capital of their promised state.
Israel did not include east Jerusalem in its 10-month moratorium on new permits for home construction in settlements, because it does not consider its Jewish neighbourhoods to be settlements.
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