An Israeli court ruling allowed Jewish settlers to evict a single mother and her four children from their east Jerusalem home. It's stirring anger with protesters calling for an end to Israel's occupation. As CGTN's Stephanie Freid reports, a controversial Israeli law is giving the green light to more Jewish settlement in Palestinian neighborhoods.  

They're protesting outside this tourist spot on purpose. City of David or Elad is a heavily funded organization focused on pushing Palestinians out of Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods and replacing them with Jewish settlers. In the case of the Siyam family, Israel's high court invoked a controversial absentee property law to rule in favor of a settler takeover of part of the family home. A newly erected aluminum wall separates the Siyam's from their unwanted new neighbors. The Jewish settlers who took over the home are protected around the clock by Israeli security.

NIHAD SIYAM PALESTINIAN RESIDENT, EAST JERUSALEM "We are staying here. We will keep going on with our life. But we will not just stop now at this step and say: We are surrender."

Israel illegally annexed Arab East Jerusalem in 1967. There are more than two hundred thousand Jewish settlers living in Arab neighborhoods today. Political trends indicate settlement and further annexation will continue and increase in the future.

HAGIT OFRAN DIR. OF PEACE NOW SETTLEMENT WATCH, EAST JERUSALEM "One week ago representatives of the Trump administration came here to inaugurate the tunnel and to make a statement: this is Israel's sovereignty."

U.S. President Trump's ambassador to Israel is pro-settlement and supports Israel's annexation of the Palestinian West Bank. Peace advocates maintain: the negotiation table is the only place to work out long term solutions.

HAGIT OFRAN DIR. OF PEACE NOW SETTLEMENT WATCH, EAST JERUSALEM "We don't have any alternative. Only two states and only peace. If we are not going to go there, we are doomed."

As Israeli-Palestinian peace remains stagnant, all parties are seemingly marching down the "path of doom". Stephanie Freid, CGTN, East Jerusalem.