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The Jerusalem neighbourhood symbolizing the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation

Mar 20, 2024
Palestinians walk to Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem's old city. The Holy City. But peace here remains as elusive as the light that flits between the shadows of its ancient paths. The stone underfoot may have been smoothed and softened by time, but not the conflict that still defines Israelis and Palestinians as as acute and as far from a solution as ever. This is the last battle front. A garden in a Palestinian neighborhood called Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem. Captured from Jordan by Israel in 1967 and later annexed to an extent not recognized by the international community.
the jerusalem neighbourhood symbolizing the palestinian struggle against israeli occupation
Reem Hammmad has brought his children to the house he was born in, where his parents still live and now face eviction. Along with other Palestinian families in the neighborhood. The children paint posters about their plight. It is very important that the little ones know the history and remain attached to knowing their land and knowing that it is their land. It's no one else's land. It's theirs. It was given to Hammad's parents and 27 other Palestinian families in the 1950s. Part of a plan by Jordan to house refugees from the wars surrounding the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
the jerusalem neighbourhood symbolizing the palestinian struggle against israeli occupation

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The United Nations paid for the construction of houses in that terrain. We were actually people who came from all over the country. From Haifa, from Akka, from Yafa, from all over the country as refugees seeking refuge and safety here in Jerusalem and some even came from the west side of Jerusalem, west Jerusalem. Israeli law allows Jewish citizens to claim pre-1948 property as long as they can prove title to the property. Settler groups attempting to evict Palestinian families claimed to have purchased the land from two Jewish trusts that purchased it in the late 19th century. Those claims have been upheld by a lower court in Israel and are now before the Supreme Court.
the jerusalem neighbourhood symbolizing the palestinian struggle against israeli occupation
At least one hearing was delayed due to its inflammatory nature. We have a city and we had a war in 1948. 2,000 Jews were displaced. Between 20,000 and 30,000 Palestinians were displaced. Jews can recover their property. The Palestinians maybe not. Daniel Seidemann is an Israeli lawyer who has worked on settlement issues in Jerusalem for thirty years. He says Palestinians are right to worry that settlers have the full backing of the Israeli government. The only people who have ever lived in these houses are the Palestinians who live there. They are your memories. And today it is the settlers who have absolutely no connection with this site.
the jerusalem neighbourhood symbolizing the palestinian struggle against israeli occupation
None of the original owners. The period before 1948 has returned to Sheikh Jarrah. Everything goes to the colonists as ideological trinkets. Various groups in Jerusalem raise funds, mostly from abroad, to support nationalist religious Jewish settlers in their efforts to displace Palestinians. Daniel Luria is a spokesperson for one called Uttarat Koanim. Let's understand something. That the land of Israel, including Judea Samaria. In all of Jerusalem, there is only one sovereign body here. There is only one town that has a connection to this land. There is no such thing as a Palestinian village. There is no such thing as a Palestinian state.
And here there is no sovereignty of anyone except the Jewish people. Hardline Jewish settlers took over one of the houses opposite Reen Hamad's parents' home in Sheikh Jarrah about 10 years ago. It is fortified and adorned with security cameras. Since then, the street has become a rallying point for Palestinians opposing possible evictions. In early May, there were almost nightly clashes between Palestinians, Israeli settlers and the police. Israeli police have since blocked the entrance. For many Palestinians, Sheikh Jarrah has become a symbol of their fight against the half-century-old Israeli

occupation

, with a younger generation carrying the torch. Leverage social media for your cause.
This video went viral. Jakub, you know this is not your house. Yes, but if I go, you don't come back. So what is the problem? Why are you yelling at me? I didn't do this. I didn't do this. It's easy to yell at me but I didn't do this. You're robbing my house. And if I don't steal it, someone else will steal it. No, no one can steal it. Samira Dajani and Adel Budeiri also face eviction. His family's original homes in West Jerusalem. Dajani says young Palestinians, both here and abroad, are making a difference. Before there was not enough power to spread our opinions here and there, but now I think this is the reason.
They have two daughters who live in Canada. We didn't know how to address this... this cause. And we lost a lot of followers around the world. Now, as Samira said, young people are better than us. Better than our generation. They are convinced that the insertion of Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem is part of a deliberate plan to thwart the possibility of it one day serving as the capital of an independent Palestinian state. Israel claims Jerusalem as its undivided capital. The idea of ​​a two-state solution to the conflict has been gathering dust in a corner for some decades, despite the international community paying lip service to it when convenient.
There are those who say it's time to get back to it. We Israelis are drinking cappuccino on the edge of a volcano. Daniel Seidemann says that ignoring what is happening would be a mistake for Israel. I am Israeli, I am a Zionist. I consider myself a patriot. Israel is constantly involved in policies that decent people cannot support, but we are seeing a large-scale erosion of support for Israel for reasons that I understand very well and a growing support for the Palestinians that I also understand. But there are leadership vacuums among both Palestinians and Israelis. The Palestinian Authority in the occupied territories is seen by its own people as corrupt and moribund.
And Israel has had a staggering four elections in the last two years. The religious right continues to dictate whether governments will stand or fall. Now is not the time, optimists and pragmatists alike say, for the outside world to look the other way. Margaret Evans, CBC News, Jerusalem.

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