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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said that, for years, a precise and lengthy search process has been taking place in the records of Jordanian official departments for documents showing that the former Jordanian Ministry of Construction and Reconstruction had previously concluded leasing contracts for housing units to a number of Sheikh Jarrah's families in 1956.

In 2019, the Palestinian embassy in Amman, upon the request of the Palestinian side, was handed over certified copies of all documents that were found, which are leasing contracts, correspondence, records and lists of names of tenants at the Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, according to the Foreign Ministry spokesperson Daifullah Al Fayez.

"The embassy was also handed over a certified copy of the agreement between the Ministry Construction and Reconstruction and UNRWA in 1954," Al Fayez added, noting that the search process continues for documents dating back more than sixty years.

Al-Fayez emphasized that rooting Jerusalemites on their land and homes and protecting their rights are permanent constants in the Kingdom's efforts to support Palestinian brothers, expressing the kingdom's absolute condemnation of Israel's illegal and inhuman attempts to expel Palestinians from their homes and lands, and its refusal to tamper with their rights.