JERUSALEM, February 27, 2012, (WAFA) – The Israeli Nature Authority Monday stopped work on land between the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Issawiyeh and al-Tur after area residents got court order to stop the work, according to local activists.
They presented workers from the Nature Authority with the court decision, which orders temporary halt to the work.
The Israeli municipality of Jerusalem is planning to take over more than 700 dunums of Palestinian land near the two neighborhoods to build what is believed to be a Talmudic garden and to serve area Jewish settlements.
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