Tag: Jerusalem

  • Israel demolishes Palestinian house on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives

    Ma’an News 30 June 2009 Two women were hospitalized after Israel’s Jerusalem Municipality demolished a house on the Mount of Olives in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday morning. During the demolition Israeli police clashed with inhabitants of the house, bruising nine of them. The destruction came a day after the municipality declared that it would…

  • East Jerusalem residents prepare for demolitions

    24 June 2009 The people of Silwan, East Jerusalem, were on red alert on the morning of June 23rd, as rumours spread the neighbourhood that the army was set to arrive to demolish houses. This was based on warnings from the Palestinian Authority, a journalists tip, and the fact that many special police forces were…

  • Support Sheikh Jarrah: International day of actions against house demolitions in Palestine

    The community of Shiekh Jarrah calls on the international community to set up tents outside of Israeli embassies worldwide in solidarity with the neighborhoods threatened with eviction or demolition in occupied East Jerusalem. Tents have become a powerful symbol of the struggle of Palestinian people living in occupied East Jerusalem. They have been set up…