The latest escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict brought important shifts in the status quo, underscoring the necessity of a political settlement. A peace based on equal respect for both peoples’ rights will take time, however. Steps to lower the temperature are urgent in the interim.
July 30, 2021
They stare out with determination and conviction from the facades of over 20 buildings in Batan al-Hawa, one of 12 neighborhoods that make up the East Jerusalem Palestinian village of Silwan, overlooking Wadi Hilwa and facing West Jerusalem and the Old City. Their presence is particularly powerful when viewed from a distance: a multitude of large human eyes, variously colored and shaped, facing the world as if to say, “Please look at me now.” Their curious presence, which proliferates through Batan al-Hawa, a neighborhood located in the heart of Silwan where approximately 85 Palestinian families have been facing evictions for decades, would prompt anyone to inquire into their raison d’etre.
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Palestinians and Arab Israelis protest against the 2003 Citizenship and Entry Law into Israel outside the Knesset on Tuesday, June 29, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Anas al-Qadi sees his children only occasionally. He is married to an Arab Israeli woman from the northern Arab town of Wadi Ara, but as a Palestinian resident of Jericho, only has a commercial permit to enter Israel in the morning and leave at night.
“It’s hard, only seeing them once a week, every two weeks, not knowing what the future holds,” al-Qadi told The Times of Israel at a protest for Palestinian family reunification by the Knesset on Tuesday.
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May. 31, 2021 11:25 AM
The Justice Ministry department that investigates allegations of police misconduct will not be probing the shooting of Abdel-Afo Bassam and his injury: even though it happened in the heart of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound; even though the young Jerusalemite was clearly taking pictures; even though police shot him twice; even though he was one of five Palestinian photographers who were shot by the police at the holy site that day, Friday May 7. About a dozen more photographers were attacked by police officers in other places in Jerusalem that day.