Raquel Rolnik, United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, visits the Palestinian Kurd family, whose house was taken over by Jewish settlers in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, on January 30, 2012. The settlers claim ownership of properties in Sheikh Jarrah on the basis of Ottoman-era documents. The Palestinians and their supporters have argued that the same kinds of documents would prove ownership of vast swathes of what is now Israel by the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who became refugees after the 1948 Middle East war that attended Israel's creation. Photo by Mahfouz Abu Turk