Hatim Abdulqader, who is charge of the Jerusalem portfolio in the Fatah movement, told Arab News that activists from the Nahalat Shimon settler group handed the warrants to the Al-Dajani and Al-Dahoudi families.
Abdulqader added that the warrant "gave the family a 30-day ultimatum before the evacuation."
He added that the new warrants brought the number of houses threatened with eviction to eight, excluding the houses of Al-Ghawi and Al-Kurd families which were vacated by the end of 2009.
Abdulqader said that the two families will reject the eviction orders like other families in Sheikh Jarrah did. Nahalat Shimon seeks to demolish the existing Palestinian neighborhood and build a 200-unit settlement in its place.
Abdulqader added that the move was "in complicity with Israeli police and security forces."
Israel evicted dozens of Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah on in the past two years. Israeli police cited a ruling by High Court of Justice that the houses belong to Jews and that the Arab families had been living there illegally.
The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood was built by the UN and Jordanian government in 1956 to house Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war. However, with the start of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, following the 1967 war, occupiers began claiming ownership of the land the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood was built on.
According to Abdulqader, Sheikh Jarrah is particularly vulnerable to illegal Israeli expansion because it connects Jewish West Jerusalem, the Old City and Israeli settlements to the north and east.
Israel claims Jerusalem as its capital. But the Palestinians want East Jerusalem — home to some 200,000 Jewish Israelis and 268,000 Palestinians — the capital of their future state.
Israel has rejected repeated US demands for a freeze on settlement activity in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, leading tensions with Washington. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the right of Jews to build and live anywhere in Jerusalem is not negotiable.
"Israel is once again showing its utter failure to respect international law," Abdulqader said.
"New occupiers from abroad are accommodating themselves and their belongings in the Palestinian houses and the evicted Palestinians will have nowhere to sleep,” he said.
Abdulqader called on Palestinians to show more caution to the Israeli measures and called on the international community "to intervene and stop the racist and provocative policies and the ethnic cleansing in the holy city."
