JERUSALEM — A group of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem whose looming eviction [led to an 11-day war](//www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/world/middleeast/israel-palestinian-gaza-war.html) in Gaza rejected a compromise on Tuesday that would have allowed them to stay in their homes for several decades if they agreed to pay nominal rent to a Jewish settler group that courts have ruled are the buildings’ real owners. The four families from Sheikh Jarrah, [a neighborhood in East Jerusalem](//www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/world/middleeast/evictions-jerusalem-israeli-palestinian-conflict-protest.html) that was annexed by Israel after the Arab-Israeli war in 1967, said in a statement that they were rejecting the deal. The agreement, proposed by Israel’s highest court, did not...