Dozens of Palestinians and foreign supporters protested in east Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Sunday against the threatened eviction of a Palestinian family to make way for Jewish settlers.

Dozens of Palestinians and foreign supporters protested in east Jerusalem's walled Old City on Sunday against the threatened eviction of a Palestinian family to make way for Jewish settlers.

"No to the eviction of the Sub Laban family," read banners carried by demonstrators, referring to the eight occupants of the house near the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Rafat Sub Laban, who lives there with his parents, his sister and his brother's wife and children, said the family have rented their home since 1953 when the Old City was ruled by Jordan.

Occupation authorities issued an eviction order in September which is currently under appeal, but Zionist settlers backed by police tried to gain possession last week, he said.

"Twenty  police officers with settlers wanted to evict us," he said in a statement.

The Zionist entity seized Arab east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognized by the international community.