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A delegation of United Nations bodies and other groups visited the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Friday, to meet with a Palestinian family at risk of being expelled from their home by Israeli authorities. The UN’s Humanitarian Country Team in Palestine met with the Salem family, who are at risk of expulsion despite having lived in their house for seven decades, according to a UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) press release. “The United Nations has repeatedly called for a halt to forced evictions and demolitions in the occupied West Bank…