Posts Tagged ‘Silwan’

Silwan faces escalating home demolitions in fight against messianic settlers

Home demolitions in East Jerusalem are rampant, but none more than in Silwan, where messianic settlers backed by the state are attempting to establish fanciful “archaeological” parks on top of Palestinian homes.  Source

What’s the story?: Amani Odeh on saving Silwan

Amani Odeh was born and raised in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood situated just below the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in illegally annexed and occupied East Jerusalem. All East Jerusalem neighborhoods, including Silwan, have faced systematic Israeli human rights violations for more than a half century. These coercive practices include arbitrary seizures and demolitions of Palestinian homes, […]

What’s the story?: Amani Odeh on saving Silwan

Amani Odeh was born and raised in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood situated just below the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in illegally annexed and occupied East Jerusalem. All East Jerusalem neighborhoods, including Silwan, have faced systematic Israeli human rights violations for more than a half century. These coercive practices include arbitrary seizures and demolitions of Palestinian homes, […]

What’s the story?: Amani Odeh on saving Silwan

Amani Odeh was born and raised in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood situated just below the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in illegally annexed and occupied East Jerusalem. All East Jerusalem neighborhoods, including Silwan, have faced systematic Israeli human rights violations for more than a half century. These coercive practices include arbitrary seizures and demolitions of Palestinian homes, […]

What’s the story?: Amani Odeh on saving Silwan

Amani Odeh was born and raised in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood situated just below the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in illegally annexed and occupied East Jerusalem. All East Jerusalem neighborhoods, including Silwan, have faced systematic Israeli human rights violations for more than a half century. These coercive practices include arbitrary seizures and demolitions of Palestinian homes, […]

What’s the story?: Amani Odeh on saving Silwan

Amani Odeh was born and raised in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood situated just below the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in illegally annexed and occupied East Jerusalem. All East Jerusalem neighborhoods, including Silwan, have faced systematic Israeli human rights violations for more than a half century. These coercive practices include arbitrary seizures and demolitions of Palestinian homes, […]

Settler group Elad is Israel’s weapon to evict Palestinians from Silwan

Elad settler organisation, also known as Ir David Foundation, is Israel’s weapon to steal Palestinian lands, including private land owned by Palestinians who fled Israeli aggression in 1948 or 1967. The pro-settlement Israeli association was established in 1986, and has been operating mainly in the occupied Palestinian village of Silwan in East Jerusalem, south of the Old City and Al-Aqsa Mosque. It has been working to […]

Soldiers Invade Silwan And Shu’fat In Jerusalem, Abduct One Palestinian

 DEC 29, 2021 Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Silwan town and Shu’fat refugee camp, in the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, before abducting one Palestinian, and invading homes and stores while military helicopters hovered overhead. Media sources said dozens of soldiers invaded and searched many homes in the Shu’fat refugee camp, causing damage. […]

Confrontations between IOF and Palestinians in Silwan

Posted on November 25, 2021 by uprootedpalestinians November 25, 2021 Source: Al Mayadeen By Al Mayadeen Net Yet again, the IOF carry on their terrorizing activities and Palestinians stand their ground and respond. Confrontations continue between the IOF and Palestinians in Silwan Confrontations, yet again, broke out between the Israeli occupation forces and Palestinian youth […]

Solidarity with Silwan: a teacher’s perspective

DETERMINED TO STAYPalestinian Youth Fight for Their Villageby Jody Sokolower240 pp. Olive Branch Press. $20 Twenty years ago, I joined a team of teachers developing and teaching a new 9th grade class, “Identity and Ethnic Studies,” at Berkeley High School in California’s Bay Area. We never even discussed the possibility of including Palestine or Arab […]

Some Democratic lawmakers condemn Silwan demolitions, but most remain silent

Israel has begun demolitions in the al-Bustan area of Silwan. Most Democratic congress members have largely ignored the destruction, but a small group of progressive House members have criticized Israel actions on Twitter with many using the #SaveSilwan hashtag. “Homes are next in Silwan, East Jerusalem. 1,500 Palestinians—including 900+ children—face displacement right now,” tweeted Illinois […]

Israel forces begin demolition of Jerusalem’s Silwan neighbourhood

Israeli occupation forces this morning raided the Silwan neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, amid plans to demolish Palestinian homes in the area. According to local residents, Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the Palestinians who had gathered to stop the demolitions in the Al-Bustan neighbourhood. Mosques called on residents to […]

Zionist Ethnic Cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood and the Silwan Village

19/06/2021 By Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh | June 19, 2021 In order to understand the issue of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Zionist entity and its tools in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in colonized Jerusalem, we must not address it in the Zionist colonial settler context because it lacks scientific credibility. In order to solve […]

In Jerusalem’s Silwan, Israeli settlers wage another battle to takeover Palestinian homes

By now, you’ve probably heard of Sheikh Jarrah and the struggle by the neighborhood’s Palestinian residents to save their homes from being taken over by Israeli settlers.  The fight to save Sheikh Jarrah has garnered international attention in recent weeks and has prompted widespread protests across Palestine and the entire world. But just a few kilometers away another group […]

Intimidation. Extortion. Eviction: This is the brutal reality for Palestinians in Silwan, Jerusalem

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First-Ever Memorial Held in Silwan for Jew Slain in 1939 Arab Riots

The Silwan village. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. JNS.org – The first-ever memorial day for Shlomo Madmoni was held on Monday in the village of Shiloah (Silwan) in eastern Jerusalem, also known as the Yemenite village. The event, initiated by the Shiloah public council, was attended by Israel’s Regional Cooperation Minister Ofir Akunis. Madmoni was murdered in […]

Britain Deploys Troops To Tunisia To Stop ISIS Crossing Libyan Border

Britain says it has sent troops to Tunisia to help stop ISIS from crossing the border from neighboring Libya. The British defense minister Michael Fallon said : ” A training team of some 20 troops from the 4th Infantry Brigade is now moving to Tunisia to help to counter illegal cross-border movement from Libya in support […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

Nuclear Materials Flown Between UK & US 23 Times In 5 Years

The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that materials used in nuclear weapons have been flown between the UK and the US 23 times in the last five years. The information was revealed in an answer to a Parliamentary Question asked by the Scottish National Party’s Westminster group defence leader Brendan O’Hara. Though the MoD […]

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