27 November 2009 On Friday 27 November 2009, the Eid al-Adha celebration in Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, was marked by prayers and demonstrations. In the night unto Eid, the sleep in the neighbourhood was disturbed ...
Read More »Israel’s occupation, linked by rail
Seth Freedman | The Guardian 26 November 2009 The architects of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank are highly skilled at the art of needlework, deftly stitching up land inside Israel proper and disputed territory over the Green Line as ...
Read More »Palestinian woman suffers a stroke after settlers invade her family’s house in Sheikh Jarrah
26 November 2009 On Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 1:00am, five settlers and settler security, who are currently occupying the Gawi family house in Sheikh Jarrah, attempted to take over a section of a house belonging to the Palestinian al-Kurd ...
Read More »Israeli police escalate harassment of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah
21 November 2009 In the past few days, Israeli police have twice harassed Palestinians in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. First, in the evening of Thursday 19 November 2009, an Israeli police officer threatened to murder Saleh ...
Read More »Settler incursions of Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah
18 November 2009 On Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 10:30am, one of the settlers who are occupying the Ghawi family house in Sheikh Jarrah, climbed over a wall in order to enter the neighbouring Palestinian property. Amal Qassem, who lives ...
Read More »Palestinians to Arab states: You can stop Jerusalem light rail
Amira Hass | Ha’aretz 17 November 2009 The chairman of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ office, Dr. Rafiq Husseini, on Monday urges all Arab countries to cancel their business ties with two French companies – Veolia and Alstom – involved in ...
Read More »Palestinian cave-dweller fights Israeli eviction
YNet News 12 November 2009 A Palestinian camping in an ancient cave near Jerusalem says he has been told by Israeli authorities to get out because the hillside is slated for a housing development and his “illegal” home will be ...
Read More »Ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem
Art Gish 9 November 2009 My teammate woke me at 6:00 a.m. “We need to go over to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to accompany the al Ghawi family, a Palestinian family that Israeli police evicted from their home on August ...
Read More »Residents of Sheikh Jarrah demonstrate against settlements in East Jerusalem
4 November 2009 On Wednesday 4 November 2009, a vibrant demonstration was held in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The demonstration was organised as a protest against Jewish settlers taking over a Palestinian house in Sheikh Jarrah, ...
Read More »Settlement by stealth belies promises of restraint
Donald Macintyre | The Independent 4 November 2009 Maysaa Al-Kurd has lived all her life in the home her family moved into in 1956. The pomegranate tree standing in the garden was planted by her father when she was still ...
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