Next to Baten Al Hawa neighborhood, in the middle of the Silwan neighborhood south of the Al Aqsa Mosque, up to the old alleyways, will not be able to easily reach the orchard, the middle lane or the Maragha neighborhood in the neighborhood. The signs of these places have been removed and replaced with new signs bearing the name Jewish rabbis.
In the neighborhood there are 30 settler families who have taken over Palestinian houses and lived inside them. Israeli flags have been raised on their roofs, turning them into outposts adjacent to the homes of hundreds of Palestinians.
The process of judaizing the streets of Baten Hawa neighborhood came as a result of the approval of the Municipality of Israel in Jerusalem to name the five rabbis on the streets of the neighborhood, where the decision approved by the naming committee headed by the mayor, Moshe Leion, with the consent of eight members, against the opposition of two.
The five rabbis are: Ezraat Nadahim, and his name will be named for the charity company established by Yisrael Dov Dromkin in Baten Hawa neighborhood, Hraff Madmoni, Harav Abraham Landaf, Harav Yahya Yitzhak Halevi, Shalom Shalom Halevy.
The head of the Baten Al-Hawa Committee in the town of Silwan, Zuhair al-Rajabi, explains that the neighborhood of Batin al-Hawa witnessed a major battle for tens of years in regard to several properties inhabited by more than 700 Jerusalemites in the neighborhood, pointing out that this conflict intensified in 2004, when Ateret Khonim The settlement on the first house in it, followed by the control of houses, and turning them into outposts.
Al-Rajabi told Emirates Al-Youm that Israel has not only taken control of real estate and homes in the Batin Al-Hawa neighborhood, and has established settlement outposts in the neighborhood's neighborhoods to impose Judaization and control in a different direction by removing signs bearing the historical names of the streets. To be named after the rabbis of the Jews, after the exclusion of the history of the place and Arabism, Judaization ».
"The move was designed to satisfy settlers who took over buildings in the neighborhood, inhabited by 30 Jewish families, mostly extremists, while the municipality ignores 6,000 Jerusalemites," he said. In the same area, and they are completely marginalized. "
"For dozens of years, all the residents of Jerusalem have known the names of the streets of Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, especially through signs posted at the entrance to the neighborhoods, including the central neighborhood and the Maragha case. Israeli citizens of the Belly belly ».
"After the naming of the streets by the names of the Jewish rabbis, the place of residence in the identity cards will not match the names of the new streets," he said.
"Changing and judging the names is an Israeli policy to exercise its hegemony, part of Israeli policy aimed at uprooting the Arab roots of the city of Jerusalem and bringing new Israeli families into their place," said Khalil Tufakji, director of maps and geographic information systems at East Jerusalem.
Adding that "Israel seeks to end all Arab names and presence in Jerusalem, a process that, over time, is replaced by all the Arabic names with Hebrew ones, just as it did in the settlements, which were named Hebrew names, unlike the Arab names of the areas on which they were built."