'This Division Will Separate Families': Israeli Highway Cuts Through Palestinian Neighborhood

February 07, 2013 from BBC Arabic via Mosaic

Residents of Beit Safafa in East Jerusalem protest a new project by the Jerusalem municipality to establish a highway that will go right through the neighborhood, dividing it into six sections. BBC Arabic interviews some of those affected, and explores the reasons behind the construction of yet another barrier.

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Beit Safafa

Beit Safafa is an Arab neighborhood in southern Jerusalem. Beit Safafa covers an area of 1,577 dunams. Since 1949, the neighborhood has been divided by the Green Line. Until 1967, the southern two-thirds were under Jordanian rule and the northern third under Israeli rule. Afte... Explore this topic

Gilo

Gilo is a large residential area in south-western East Jerusalem with a population of 40,000, mostly Jewish. It is widely considered an Israeli settlement because as one of the five Ring Neighborhoods built by Israel surrounding Jerusalem, it was built on land in the West Bank... Explore this topic

Gush Etzion

Gush Etzion is a cluster of Israeli settlements located in the Judaean Mountains directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank, Palestinian territories. The core group includes four Jewish agricultural villages that were founded in 1940-1947 on property purchased ... Explore this topic

Separation barrier

Separation barrier refers to a barrier, wall or fence constructed to limit the movement of people across a certain line or border, or to separate two populations. Many use the term to describe the various fences, walls and other barriers Israel created to separate Palestinians... Explore this topic

Har Homa

Har Homa is a neighborhood in southern East Jerusalem, near Beit Sahour. Built on land annexed to the Jerusalem municipality by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War, it is considered by much of the world an illegal Israeli settlement, although Israel disputes this. The neighborho... Explore this topic

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing struggle between Israelis and Palestinians that began in the early 20th century. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between the Zionist yishuv and the ... Explore this topic

East Jerusalem

East Jerusalem or Eastern Jerusalem refer to the parts of Jerusalem captured and annexed by Jordan after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and then captured and annexed by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. It includes Jerusalem's Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christ... Explore this topic

Judaization of Jerusalem

The Judaization of Jerusalem refers to the view that Israel has sought to transform the physical and demographic landscape of Jerusalem to correspond with a vision of a united and fundamentally Jewish Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. The question of whether there is an Isr... Explore this topic

Israeli-occupied territories

The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories which have been designated as occupied territory by the United Nations and other international organizations, governments and others to refer to the territory seized by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967 from Egypt, Jorda... Explore this topic

House demolition in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

House demolition is a controversial tactic used by the Israeli Defence Forces in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip against Palestinians and Israeli settlers. Official IDF explanations for house demolitions include use as a counter-insurgency security measure to impe... Explore this topic

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