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10th September 2010, 18:20
Watch: A tour of Jerusalem's ancient Silwan Pool
Published today 17:04
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Looking out on the modern Silwan from the Old City of Jerusalem on 7
December 2006. [MaanImages/Magnus Johansson]
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Abu Moussa was born in Silwan, once a village on a fertile valley, and established before the city of Jerusalem.
The village was founded around a spring, which the founding tribe, known as the Yabousites, dug into a stream with a collecting pool. The water from the spring, known as Ayin Silwan, was used to irrigate crops in the area, and later used by the Canaanites when they began to build Jerusalem.
Now considered a neighborhood of East Jerusalem, 88 homes in Silwan are threatened with demolition under an Israeli government plan to create a park in the valley.
Residents and a city planner joined forces and created an alternative development scheme (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=285150) based on the spring, which would be rehabilitated as a central promenade at the bottom of the green valley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu8uXrGTKUk&feature=player_embedded
Filmed as part of a series by Ma'an Network, Abu Mussa appeared in September's Hay Baladna (This is Our Country) program, broadcast on MIX satellite, the only Palestinain station in Israel.
The story of Abu Moussa and images from the Silwan Spring were beamed out to Palestinians across the Middle East during the month of Ramadan.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=314364
Published today 17:04
http://www.revleft.com/vb/images/ViewDetails/Eng-1.jpg http://www.revleft.com/vb/images/ViewDetails/Eng+1.jpg
http://www.maannews.net/images/PhotoViewer/29676.jpg
Looking out on the modern Silwan from the Old City of Jerusalem on 7
December 2006. [MaanImages/Magnus Johansson]
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Abu Moussa was born in Silwan, once a village on a fertile valley, and established before the city of Jerusalem.
The village was founded around a spring, which the founding tribe, known as the Yabousites, dug into a stream with a collecting pool. The water from the spring, known as Ayin Silwan, was used to irrigate crops in the area, and later used by the Canaanites when they began to build Jerusalem.
Now considered a neighborhood of East Jerusalem, 88 homes in Silwan are threatened with demolition under an Israeli government plan to create a park in the valley.
Residents and a city planner joined forces and created an alternative development scheme (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=285150) based on the spring, which would be rehabilitated as a central promenade at the bottom of the green valley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu8uXrGTKUk&feature=player_embedded
Filmed as part of a series by Ma'an Network, Abu Mussa appeared in September's Hay Baladna (This is Our Country) program, broadcast on MIX satellite, the only Palestinain station in Israel.
The story of Abu Moussa and images from the Silwan Spring were beamed out to Palestinians across the Middle East during the month of Ramadan.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=314364