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13th November 2010, 06:49
Activists mark year of protests in Sheikh Jarrah
Published yesterday 17:40
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Activists protest the occupation of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers in Sheikh
Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem on 28 May 2010 [MaanImages/Mimmi Nietula]
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Some 300 demonstrators gathered in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Friday to mark a year of protests against the eviction of Palestinians and against Israeli settler activity here.
Israelis, Palestinians and international activists beat drums and waved signs reading "Free Sheikh Jarrah" and "Stop Stealing Our Land," in what has become a weekly ritual sign of opposition to settlement activity in the area.
The demonstrations target a group of Israelis who moved into the area with help from the international Nahalat Shimon settler group.
The group secured a Israeli Supreme Court ruling last year ordering the eviction of several Palestinian families to make way for settlers who say they have title deeds for properties in the neighbourhood, despite UN and Palestinian denials.
Opponents say the titles are "fake" documents for homes that Palestinians obtained in a deal struck between Jordan and the UN agency for refugees in 1956, when Jordan had jurisdiction over the area.
Israeli authorities have also given permission for the construction of about 20 homes in Sheikh Jarrah, which is one of the tensest areas in the city and lies alongside the so-called Green Line separating east and west Jerusalem.
On Friday, a few Orthodox Jews could be seen going in and out of homes in the neighbourhood.
Protestors jeered them, but there was no violence and a small deployment of Israeli forces made no arrests.
Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community.
It sees all of Jerusalem as its "eternal, undivided" capital and does not consider construction in East Jerusalem to be settlement activity.
The Palestinians want to make the east -- home to some 200,000 Jewish Israelis and 268,000 Palestinians -- the capital of their future state.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=333349
Published yesterday 17:40
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Activists protest the occupation of Palestinian homes by Israeli settlers in Sheikh
Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem on 28 May 2010 [MaanImages/Mimmi Nietula]
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Some 300 demonstrators gathered in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Friday to mark a year of protests against the eviction of Palestinians and against Israeli settler activity here.
Israelis, Palestinians and international activists beat drums and waved signs reading "Free Sheikh Jarrah" and "Stop Stealing Our Land," in what has become a weekly ritual sign of opposition to settlement activity in the area.
The demonstrations target a group of Israelis who moved into the area with help from the international Nahalat Shimon settler group.
The group secured a Israeli Supreme Court ruling last year ordering the eviction of several Palestinian families to make way for settlers who say they have title deeds for properties in the neighbourhood, despite UN and Palestinian denials.
Opponents say the titles are "fake" documents for homes that Palestinians obtained in a deal struck between Jordan and the UN agency for refugees in 1956, when Jordan had jurisdiction over the area.
Israeli authorities have also given permission for the construction of about 20 homes in Sheikh Jarrah, which is one of the tensest areas in the city and lies alongside the so-called Green Line separating east and west Jerusalem.
On Friday, a few Orthodox Jews could be seen going in and out of homes in the neighbourhood.
Protestors jeered them, but there was no violence and a small deployment of Israeli forces made no arrests.
Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move not recognised by the international community.
It sees all of Jerusalem as its "eternal, undivided" capital and does not consider construction in East Jerusalem to be settlement activity.
The Palestinians want to make the east -- home to some 200,000 Jewish Israelis and 268,000 Palestinians -- the capital of their future state.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=333349