DEMONSTRATIONS took place in Jaffa on Saturday over plans by Israeli authorities to expel 1,400 Palestinian residents of the city, the Palestinian Authority’s official Wafa news agency reported.

The protests by Palestinian citizens of Israel coincided with Israeli authorities’ attempts to expel Palestinians from their homes under the Absentees’ Property Law of 1950, which has been used to ethnically cleanse areas to make way for Israeli settlers.

“Absentee property for indigenous residents, not for investors” and “Uprooting inhabitants and Judaising the city is a time bomb,” read placards held by protesters.

They called on Israel’s Palestinian citizens,who make up about 20 per cent of the country’s population, to take a stand against the plans.

According to Wafa, the protests have been taking place on a weekly basis.

Jaffa is home to about 15,000 Palestinians, far fewer than in the pre-Nakba period.

Palestinians citizens of Israel have long experienced institutional discrimination and violence.

Elsewhere, at least 13 Palestinians were injured on Friday as Israeli forces suppressed anti-settlement protests across the West Bank.

Three people were reportedly wounded as Israeli forces clamped down on demonstrators taking part in a weekly protest in the town of Kafr Qaddoum in the north of the occupied territory.

Israeli forces also attacked anti-settlement activists in the Tal al-Rumeidah area of Hebron in the southern West Bank, detaining three foreign activists as they toured the area and closing it off as a ”military zone.”

Ten Palestinians were injured by tear gas as Israeli forces suppressed a protest against the establishment of a settlement outpost near the town of Beita south of Nablus.

The incoming Israeli government, led by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is already considered likely to be the most extreme in the country’s history.