Borders of the enlarged Jerusalem Walls National Park would include a large section of the Mount of Olives along with parts of the Kidron and Ben Hinnom Valleys
It is a special kind of malicious cruelty that has armed Israeli police evicting a family of 12 people, including five children, from their home in the middle of the night in freezing winter. Yet this is what happened last week in East Jerusalem. If only this was an uncommon occurrence. A few years back, just prior to one of the worst snowstorms in recent history, I remember
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Israel s Supreme Court delayed a decision on Monday in the case of Palestinian families facing expulsion by Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, an issue that contributed to the armed conflict in May.
Palestinians said they were offered the chance to remain in their properties in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood as protected tenants who would recognise Israeli ownership of the homes and pay a symbolic annual rent, but they refused. They placed a lot of pressure on us to reach an agreement with the Jewish settlers in which we would be renting from the settler organisations, said Muhammad el-Kurd, from one of four Palestinian families at the heart of the case.
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