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Mona Nabil El-Kurd, born in 1998, is an activist and journalist. She studied media at Birzeit University in Jerusalem. She became prominent during her coverage of the events of Sheikh Jarrah in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
Mona was born in 1998 in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. From a young age, she and her family were subjected to harassment and threats of eviction by the Israeli authorities. In 2009, half of her house was taken over by Israeli settlers under the pretext of building without a permit. Today, her family faces an Israeli court ruling that will expel them from the second half of her home, along with 11 other families. They were given 30 days to leave the house, but the family's attorney filed an appeal with the local court. The Israeli court justified its ruling in favor of the Israeli settler organizations on the grounds of the statute of limitations, saying that more than 30 years have passed since the settlers claimed the land and registered it.
In 2021, Mona El-Kurd and her brother, Mohammed El-Kurd, were named to Time magazine's annual "100 Most Influential People in the World" list.
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