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Twenty seven activists arrested at protest against settler expansion in Sheikh Jarrah

Posted on: December 18, 2009
Twenty seven activists arrested at protest against settler expansion in Sheikh Jarrah

18 December 2009

For immediate release:

A peaceful demonstration of around 300 people, held in solidarity with the evicted Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, was violently dispersed by the Israeli police.

Following a violent dispersal of a similar demonstration last week, the police was blocking the roads in Sheikh Jarrah from the early afternoon, in an attempt to prevent protesters from reaching the Palestinian neighbourhood. They set up barriers at the entrance to the area and, before the demonstration even started, arrested an American … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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27 arrested, 3 wounded during Sheikh Jarrah protest

Posted on: December 18, 2009
27 arrested, 3 wounded during Sheikh Jarrah protest

18 December 2009

Twenty-six Israeli protesters and one international solidarity activist were arrested and three Palestinian children wounded during a nonviolent demonstration against the Israeli settlement project in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah this Friday.

Over 300 people, Palestinians, internationals and Israelis, attended the weekly vigil. Last week 24 people were arrested during a similar protest that was also violently dispersed by Israeli Occupation Forces.

The apartheid state security forces blocked the roads leading into Sheikh Jarrah in an attempt … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Ethnic cleansing in Occupied East Jerusalem

Posted on: December 15, 2009
Ethnic cleansing in Occupied East Jerusalem

From Pork to Palestine Blog

15 December 2009

I’ve spent the last few days on night duty in an occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood called Sheikh Jarrah, accompanying two Palestinian families who have erected protest tents outside of their homes after they were forcibly evicted from them by the Israeli government and right-wing Jewish settlers.

The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem was built by the UN and Jordanian government in 1956 to house 28 Palestinian refugee families from the 1948 war. But after the start of the Israeli … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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No freeze on Palestinian suffering

Posted on: December 14, 2009

Seth Freedman | The Guardian

14 December 2009

Within minutes of our arrival in Tuwani, in the south Hebron hills of the West Bank, an army Jeep rolled into the village and shattered the mid-morning tranquillity. “We’re turning this place into a closed military zone,” announced the stern-faced commander to anyone within earshot. Brandishing his rifle in one hand and a military document in the other, he proceeded to explain that “I decide who can be here and who can’t, and anyone who isn’t a resident has to leave immediately”.

That meant us – me, my friend and our three guides … Continue reading


Updated on December 14, 2009
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Sheikh Jarrah families continue to face harassment from settlers occupying Palestinian houses

Posted on: December 14, 2009
Sheikh Jarrah families continue to face harassment from settlers occupying Palestinian houses

14 December 2009

The Jewish settler group that has taken over several houses in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem continues to harass the Palestinian residents and vandalise Palestinian property. In the past two days alone there were numerous incidents displaying an extreme disregard for the human and legal rights of others.

In the night of Sunday 13 December 2009, settlers spray-painted on the back part of the Kurd family house, adjacent to the front part which is occupied by settlers since 1 December.

In the morning, settlers occupying … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Israeli police demolish tent of evicted Sheikh Jarrah family for the fifth time

Posted on: December 14, 2009

14 December 2009

On Monday 14 December 2009 at 10am, heavily armed Israeli police came to the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem and demolished the Gawi family tent for the fifth time in two months. As the winter rain started to fall, the Gawi family members found themselves once again on the street without shelter.

The Palestinian family’s possessions were confiscated and removed in police pick-up trucks. The Gawi family has lived in a tent for over four months now, since 2 August 2009 when the 37 extended family members were forcefully evicted from their 7-appartment home in Sheikh Jarrah, … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Notes from Area C / The right to return to the caves

Posted on: December 13, 2009

Amira Hass | Ha’aretz

11 December 2009

This is a story of return, the return of Palestinians to their land in Area C. Just over a month ago, on November 8, two out of 15 families returned to Khirbet Bir el-Eid, in south Mount Hebron. By yesterday their number had reached eight.

“Everyone waited to see if they would kill us before they decided whether to return,” joked Ismail I’dra, 63, as he worked energetically to clean up one of the caves that serve as homes to residents the village. Indeed, less than two weeks ago, I’dra, too, was afraid to enter the … Continue reading


Updated on January 6, 2010
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Israeli forces disrupt UNRWA chief’s farewell

Posted on: December 11, 2009
UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd

Ma’an News

10 December 2009

Israeli police ordered outgoing UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd to leave an East Jerusalem home on Thursday during her last official visit as the head of the relief agency.

Ma’an’s reporter on the scene said AbuZayd left after police gave her five minutes to evacuate the premises of the house of the Al-Kurd family, as a Palestinian woman yelled “We want our homes and our lands. We have no alternative.”

Amidst Israeli police and soldiers, AbuZayd visited Palestinians recently evicted from their homes in the … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Israeli police pepper-spray 13-year old Palestinian boy in Sheikh Jarrah, arrest twenty four

Posted on: December 11, 2009

11 December 2009

On Friday 11 December 2009, the fourth demonstration march against evictions and demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem arrived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. The demonstration takes place every Friday, and gathers Israeli, Palestinian, and international activists in West Jerusalem to subsequently march to the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem.

The demonstration this week gathered about 150 activists, demonstrating to the beat of an Israeli samba drum band. Following a scuffle between a settler and an activist, outside the occupied al-Kurd family house, the large police force on site proceeded to violently disperse the demonstrators. 24 … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Settlers occupying al-Kurd house in Sheikh Jarrah continue to harass evicted Palestinian families

Posted on: December 8, 2009
Settler who threatened to kill Nabeel Kurd

8 December 2009

Settlers, who have since August 2009 taken over three houses in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem, have, after a series of violent attacks, initiated a number of actions this week with the intention of intimidating and harassing local Palestinians forcefully evicted from their homes.

In the past couple of days, Israeli settlers have three times harassed the evicted Palestinians. Even though their actions were not particularly violent, they highlight the daily suffering the Palestinians have to endure as the settlers take over more and more houses in the neighbourhood. The situation is especially difficult … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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