The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said it has ratified on Thursday, 14 property ownership documents struck by the former Jordanian Ministry of Construction and Reconstruction with residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, a Palestinian area located to the north of the Old City in occupied East Jerusalem.

The Jordanian defunct ministry has received the original property contracts from the Jerusalem area's residents, according to the foreign ministry.

The ratified documents were then delivered to the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the original proprietors, and their lawyers said the ministry.

The foreign ministry also handed the above three Palestinian parties a certificate indicating that the Ministry of Construction and Reconstruction concluded an agreement with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to construct 28 housing units in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, according to a press statement.

The certificate also showed that individual agreements with the Jerusalem area's residents were concluded to erect housing units to them in the Jerusalem neighborhood, pledging, according to the documents, to transfer the units' ownership to them.