Wednesday, 19 January, 2011 | 23:51 « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem
Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Clashes were sparked in Baten al-Hawa at 7pm, Thursday 20 January, when Border Police started piling dozens of sandbags on to the roof of a neighborhood home.
This roof has been occupied by police for several weeks now, the 7 families who reside in the building prohibited from going up to their own roof by officers. An “inspection” window has been added by police to the roof’s door, which now resembles the door of a jail cell.
The residents of the building were locked inside their respective apartments by Border Police earlier this evening, while officers loaded sandbags on to the roof. When neighbors took issue with police actions, clashes erupted.
Over 20 residents were injured, either by rubber-coated steel bullets or tear gas inhalation, most of them children.
3 tear gas grenades were fired in to the courtyard of the Zuheir Rajbi home. Rajbi’s 12 year old son Yazan, a week-old baby and a 7-month pregnant women have been hospitalized following gas fume asphyxiation. The pregnant woman’s unborn child is being monitored. The mother of Zuheir was also injured as she ran to escape gas plumes.


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