New film explores the human side of the Sheikh Jarrah protest movement – video

Truth does not bother “Israel”. Pushing Buttons Do. To mute. “From Tweeting until Termination” JustVision | October 11, 2011 http://www.justvision.org/homefront Featuring the accounts of a Palestinian teenager forced to share his house with settlers, an American-born Israeli mother who gets drawn into the demonstrations after her children’s arrest, a Palestinian community organizer who brings local […]

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Settlers burn ISM tent in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah

14 September 2011 | The Alternative Information Center |  International Solidarity Movement At about 2am on Monday, 11 September, settlers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah burnt to the ground an International Solidarity Movement tent that had been established to monitor and prevent settler violence in the neighborhood. The tent, which thankfully was […]

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Peaceful demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah

Saturday, 16 April, 2011 | 14:45 |  Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Dozens of Palestinian citizens marched alongside Israeli and international left-wing activists in the weekly demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem yesterday. While the march is generally under tight control of Israeli forces, yesterday witnessed a quiet […]

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Police Ordered to Compensate Sheikh Jarrah Activists

Monday, 11 April 2011 13:26 Tania Kepler for the Alternative Information Center A Jerusalem court judge ruled Sunday, 10 April, that the Jerusalem police will be required to pay damages to four Israeli activists for arresting them without just cause.     Sara Benninga, Dorit Argo, Matan Edelman and Tzvi Benninga, all members of the […]

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Palestinian family facing eviction in Beit Hanina

Sunday, 6 March, 2011 | 19:16 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — The Israeli Magistrates Court issued a decision two weeks ago to evict two Palestinian houses in Beit Hanina, asserting that the land in fact belongs to a Jewish citizen of Israel. The ownership of the two homes in question, inhabited by the Natsheh family, was […]

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Police Brutality and Arrests at Sheikh Jarrah Demo | March 4th 2011

“TaayushHebron on Mar 5, 2011 Police brutality and arrests at Sheikh Jarrah עוד לפני שהחלה ההפגנה השבועית בשייח ג’ראח , כוחות היס’מ כבר נכחו במקום וחיכו להוראה, כפי שהתברר בהמשך. בשבועות האחרונים הופיעו להפגנה רק מג’בניקים. חודשים חלפו מאז המעצרים האחרונים של מפגינים בשייח ג’ראח, ונראה שלנוכח המעצרים של פורעי תג מחיר מהימין, מנסה המשטרה […]

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Demonstrators stand in solidarity with arrested Sheikh Jarrah protesters

Sunday, 6 March, 2011 | 10:16 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Demonstrations continued outside the Jerusalem Magistrates Court last night in solidarity with the three activists arrested at Friday’s protest in Sheikh Jarrah. Israeli prosecutors had demanded 90 days detention for the two Israelis and one Palestinian. Protesters assembled outside the court, which stands adjacent to […]

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Activists arrested in Sheikh Jarrah protest held for two days

Sunday, 6 March, 2011 | 09:34 | « Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem A Palestinian home in Sheikh Jarah was evicted from its Palestinian owners. The keys of the home were given to settlers Sheikh Jarah, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Two Israeli activists, and one Palestinian were released by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court yesterday, after […]

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MPs: PA to blame for Sheikh Jarrah settlement project

[ 08/02/2011 – 07:47 PM ]   WEST BANK, (PIC)– The MPs threatened with exile said the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas was to blame for Israel’s approval to construct new homes for Jewish settlers in the East Jerusalem district of Sheikh Jarrah. The Jerusalem MPs have been sitting in at the Jerusalem Red […]

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Jerusalem Municipality Approves Construction of Settlement Units in Sheikh Jarrah

Monday February 07, 2011 16:49 by Circarre Parrhesia – IMEMC & Agencies The Jerusalem Municipal Committee for Planning and Building have met, on Monday, to approve the construction of two buildings in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. These buildings will be for the exclusive use of Israeli settlers and will require the eviction […]

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New Evictions in Sheikh Jarrah to Make Way for 13 New Settlement Units

07.02.11 – 12:11 Jerusalem – PNN – The Jerusalem Municipality announced on Monday its plan to construct 13 new Jewish settlement units in the Palestinian East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, which will result in the eviction of several Palestinian families. A Jewish settler stands outside his house in Sheikh Jarrah (PNN Images). According to […]

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Israel demolishes historic hotel in occupied East Jerusalem

Monday, 10 January 2011 20:00 Intention of the occupation authority is to build settlements on the ruins of Palestinian-owned buildings in a way that will isolate Sheikh Jarrah from the Old City of Jerusalem Israeli bulldozers have started to demolish the historic Shepherd Hotel in occupied East Jerusalem. The hotel, originally owned by the then […]

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Israelis raze al Quds hotel illegally

YouTube – israelis raze al Quds hotel illegally.

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Israel razes hotel linking Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem

[ 09/01/2011 – 11:06 AM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli bulldozers began razing Sunday morning the Shepherd Hotel in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah suburb amid a plan to replace the structure with a Jewish settlement and isolate two Palestinian neighborhoods. The Israeli left-wing rights group Peace Now disclosed in June 2010 the beginnings of the […]

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Israelis raze al-Quds hotel illegally

PressTV –  Sun Jan 9, 2011 9:49AM Israeli bulldozers have been working overtime since direct talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis broke down for the illegal settlement expansion. Israeli bulldozers have destroyed a hotel compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) to build 20 new settler units on the occupied Palestinian land, defying international calls for […]

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