Gilo

Salesian Nuns and Priests to be separated by Apartheid Wall

Submitted by Alice Bach on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 19:22
If the Israeli government succeeds in extending the Apartheid Wall through Beit Jala, the Salesian Sisters of Cremisan will be on one side, and the school children they have taught for many years on the other.

How Abu Dis' hills were stolen in the night

Lee Baker
18 May 2012
Stories from Abu Dis, a suburb which found itself suddenly cut off from Jerusalem by Israel’s wall.

"Present absentee" keeps fighting against Israel's wall in al-Walaja

Tanzil Chowdhury
al-Walaja
18 April 2012
Sheerin al-Araj, a resident of al-Walaja village, is fighting tooth and nail against Israel’s encroaching settlement projects and the wall, which both continue to rapidly confiscate more village land.

Palestinian officials who decry Gilo colony in public, offered it to Israel in negotiations

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 19:52

Palestinian officials in Ramallah have condemned Israel’s recently announced decision to expand by 1,100 Jewish-only housing units the illegal settlement of Gilo built on land stolen from the occupied West Bank villages of Beit Jala, Beit Safafa and Sharafat.

But what they say in public is at odds with their private willingless to hand the settlement over to Israel in its entirety.

Condemnation from “chief negotiator”

A 27 September press release states:

Israeli court rejects al-Walaja's appeal against wall

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
29 August 2011
Residents of the occupied West Bank village of al-Walaja are undaunted by a setback in their fight against home demolitions, the confiscation of land, the expansion of the nearby Jewish-only settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo and construction of a new Israeli settlement called Givat Yael.
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