Settlers take over east Jerusalem home
Jewish-Palestinian battle over 28 homes formerly of Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood continues. Dozens of people armed with court order take over Palestinian family's home that courts say belonged to Jews before State's establishment.
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Tens of Jewish settlers break into, occupy home of 83-year-old Palestinian woman
Tens of armed Jewish settlers on Tuesday stormed and occupied the home of 83-year-old Rifka Al-Kurd in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the heart of occupied Jerusalem.
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IOA plans construction of new settlement in occupied Jerusalem
The IOA is planning to build a new settlement in Walaja village, occupied Jerusalem, that would comprise 14,000 housing units, a report by the Israeli B'Tselem for human rights organization revealed.
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Israeli police demolish Gawi tent for the third time
On Sunday 1 November 2009 at 9:50am, eight Israeli police vehicles and about 20 heavily armed police accompanied by several municipality officers arrived outside the Gawi family house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Despite failing to present a valid court order, they quickly demolished the tent where the Gawi family have been living since they were forcefully evicted from their home on 2 August 2009.
http://palsolidarit y.org/2009/ 11/9126
“We will stay here like the fig and the olive trees”: the housing struggle and the Popular Committees of Silwan
Seen from within, the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan seems to be more refugee camp than district of the Jerusalem metropolis. Cinderblock houses are thickly stacked, some separated by inches and accessible only through alleys four feet wide. In this former farming village, homes have been carefully patched and repaired with everything from old boards to blankets.
http://www.alternat ivenews. org/english/ 2253--we- will- stay-here-like- the-fig-and- the-olive-trees- the-housing- struggle-and- the-popular- committees-of- silwan.html
Fenced in but defiant in Israeli-occupied West Bank (AFP)
AFP - Sabri Mohammed Ghraieb has seen the olive groves that once fringed his West Bank home turn into a Jewish settlement and prison-like walls but still he refuses to leave.
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