Tag: Sheikh Jarrah

  • Jewish settlers throw stones at Palestinian houses in Sheikh Jarrah

    6 November 2009 On Friday 6 November 2009 at 2am, many stones and one glass bottle were thrown onto the roofs and yards of Palestinian houses in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The stone throwing did not cause material or physical damages but did wake up and endanger the Palestinian residents including…

  • 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, belonging to the Al Kurd family, on the previous day. It was also a protest…

  • 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 an infant nearly half a century ago. But that hardly reassured her yesterday when she…