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Israel Turns Jerusalemite Neighborhood into Military Barracks

 

 

 

 JERUSALEM, November 9, 2008, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Authorities turned Al-Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood, in East Jerusalem into a military barracks, and imposed strict security measures on the area. They evicted the Al-Kurd family from and arrested 7 international solidarity activists.

Israeli troops forced Um Kamel Al-Kurd family out of their house, and intends to give it to extreme Jewish groups. They shackled Um Kamel with metal chains, and threw her and her crippled husband, in addition to a number of international pacifists out of their house. 

 

Hundreds of Israeli policemen, and special units accompanied with extreme Jewish flooded to the area, to prevent Jerusalemite citizens, including Prime Minister’s Jerusalem Affairs Advisor, Hatem Abdul Qader, from entering the Neighborhood.

 

Head of the Jerusalem Unit at the Palestinian Presidency, Ahmed Rweidi, stressed on the importance of the neighborhood, which is very close to Jerusalem Wall. He specified that this Israeli attack targets about twenty eight houses, and aims at annexing the whole neighborhood to the Hadasa Hospital area, by establishing a Jewish neighborhood in its place. He affirmed that the Israeli internal situation will have a negative impact on the lives Jerusalemites, pointing out the successive demolition operations being conducted lately by the Israeli Occupation Authorities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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