Tag: Jerusalem

  • Settler guard murders Palestinian in East Jerusalem; police fire gas at his funeral

    23 September 2010 | ISM Media On the morning of Tuesday 22 September a privately-hired Israeli settler security guard shot and killed a Palestinian man in the neighbourhood of Silwan in Palestinian East Jerusalem (Al-Quds). The killed man, Samer Sarhan, was aged 32 and had five children. Eyewitnesses say the shooting followed a verbal disagreement…

  • Two Silwan residents shot dead by settlement guards

    22 September 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan Update: only one man was killed in Silwan. More people were injured but not killed by gunshots. Massive army presence as clashes continue in Baten el-Hawa, next to Beit Yonathan settlement. Very early this morning in Silwan Village, a patrol of private armed guards stopped…

  • Israeli police accused of targeting Jerusalem’s Arab residents

    11 September 2010 | The Independent A leading civil-rights group has accused Israeli police of systematic discrimination against the Arab residents of East Jerusalem as growing numbers of hardline religious Jews take up residence in Palestinian areas. A report from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Acri) found that violent confrontations between Jewish residents…

  • East Jerusalem home demolitions continue

    Ma’an News Agency 13 July 2010 Israeli bulldozers demolished two homes in the East Jerusalem town of Al-Isawiya on Tuesday morning, saying the buildings were constructed without permits, with a third reported by a Reuters cameraman in Beit Hanina. Witnesses in Al-Isawiya said Israeli forces entered the town early in the morning, blocking off main…

  • Israelis and internationals demonstrate outside Barakat’s house in west Jerusalem

    Wadi Hilweh Information Center 6 July 2010 Dozens of international and Israeli solidarity activists protested in solidarity with Silwan in front of the west Jerusalem house of Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat. Demonstrators stated that they were opposing his racist policy in Silwan, which follows an agenda of promoting illegal settlements. The demonstrators condemned the intention…