On March 17, 2009, the Israeli authorities demolished a portion of a house in the Bait Safafa neighborhood of Jerusalem. The Arab residents were outraged when the house where they had been living for the past seven years was destroyed without any prior notice.
It is part of an ongoing campaign to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from east Jerusalem, involving the destruction of the homes of 1,500 Palestinian residents.
See also, Isabel Nicholson's story on Israel's plans to clear Silwan district supposedly to make way for a park.
Yesterday, 21 April 2009, local and international activists, including Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire called a press conference to bring media attention to Israeli settler forces that threaten the homes of 1,500 people in the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem.
Thanks to the Palestinian-Israeli Alternative Information Center
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