Tag: Ethnic Cleansing

  • Israeli police demolish tent of evicted Sheikh Jarrah family for the fifth time

    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…

  • Notes from Area C / The right to return to the caves

    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…

  • Israeli forces disrupt UNRWA chief’s farewell

    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…