Jerusalem, in the Sheikh Jarrah trench. The neighborhood of the disputed houses where the fuse was reignited

JERUSALEM – The sour smell of skunk, the liquid that the police use to disperse the demonstrations, is the unequivocal signal that you are entering one of the poles where the tension that is devastating Jerusalem is concentrated. In Sheikh Jarrah, in the eastern part of the city, there are the houses of discord around which a legal dispute has been going on for more than thirty years that is intertwined with the centennial history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.