Palestinians protest Israeli plans to demolish 100 houses in East Jerusalem
Hundreds of Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem demonstrated on Friday in protest at an Israeli municipality plan to demolish 100 properties in order to make way for a “biblical” tourism park. Al-Bustan neighbourhood lies south of the wall of Jerusalem’s Old City near the Silwan, Batn al-Hawa and Wadi al-Hilweh neighbourhoods. Since 2007, the area has been a site for Israeli archaeological excavations hoping to find the biblical city of […]