Why Palestinians are uniting around watermelon emoji

Starting in spring, the hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah proliferated, in part spurred by Muna and Mohammed Al-Kurd, 23-year-old Palestinian twins whose home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem is on a list of houses slated to be seized by Jewish settlers. At the same time, tensions grew around Israeli restrictions on access to Jerusalem’s sensitive sites such as the al-Aqsa Mosque — another long-standing flash point and site of confrontations, images of which spread as calls to action online.