Sheikh Jarrah, a coveted piece of Palestine
Audio 7:30 p.m.
Clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police in the sensitive neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on February 13, 2022. AFP - AHMAD GHARABLI
By: Sami Boukhelifa Follow
1 min
Grand Reportage today takes us to Sheikh Jarrah.
This Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem has been at the heart of a legal battle for 50 years.
It pits Palestinians against Jewish settlers, who seek to grab their homes, against a backdrop of Israeli occupation.
In May 2021, it was these attempts to evict Palestinians in particular that triggered the war in Gaza.
More recently, in January 2022, the life of a Palestinian family, the Salhiya (Salhiye) family, was turned upside down on a cold winter night.
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At 3 am, the Israeli police launched the assault: the members of this family were arrested and evacuated.
The bulldozers raze their house, and bury the memories of a lifetime under the rubble.
Behind this unprecedented violence hides a very complex affair, a story within history, made up of accusations of treason, and a priori unrelated to the other attempts of the settlers to expel the Palestinians from the neighborhood, but with the same end : “Judaize Jerusalem entirely”, as denounced by the anti-occupation activists.
"Sheikh Jarrah, a coveted piece of Palestine", a great report by Sami Boukhelifa.
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