Sheikh Jarrah
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A Sheikh Jarrah is a Jerusalem neighborhood.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Jarrah Retrieved:2023-7-25.
- Sheikh Jarrah is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, north of the Old City, on the road to Mount Scopus. [1] [2] It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Sheikh Jarrah, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity. The modern neighborhood was founded in 1865 and gradually became a residential center of Jerusalem's Muslim elite, particularly the al-Husayni family. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, it became under Jordanian-held East Jerusalem, bordering the no-man's land area with Israeli-held West Jerusalem until the neighborhood was occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Most of its present Palestinian population is said to come from refugees expelled from Jerusalem's Talbiya neighbourhood in 1948. [3] Certain properties are subject of legal proceedings based on the application of two Israeli laws, the Absentee Property Law and the Legal and Administrative Matters Law of 1970. Israeli nationalists have been working to replace the Palestinian population in the area since 1967. [4] Over a period of five decades, a number of Israeli settlements have been built in and adjacent to Sheikh Jarrah.
- ↑ Zirulnick, Ariel. Bryant, Christa Case. Five controversial Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem Christian Science Monitor. 10 January 2011
- ↑ Medding, Shira. Khadder, Kareem. Jerusalem committee OKs controversial construction plan CNN 07 February 2011
- ↑ Neri Livneh, 'So What's It Like Being Called an Israel-hater?,' Haaretz, 16 March 2010.
- ↑ Israel under pressure to rein in settlers after clashes at al-Aqsa mosque: Fresh skirmishes break out in the early hours of Sunday amid protests by Palestinians against evictions in East Jerusalem , Financial Times, 9 May 2021: "Jewish settlers have for decades targeted Sheikh Jarrah, a middle-class Arab neighbourhood between east and west Jerusalem, aiming to turn it into a majority Jewish area."