From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Charlotte Silver was published by EI on 10 December 2015.
“The main goal is to make Tel Rumeida as Shuhada street: empty from Palestinians,” Issa Amro of the activist group Youth Against Settlements told The Electronic Intifada.
Three out of approximately 100 Palestinian families in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood have already relocated because of harassment by Israeli settlers, according to the rights group B’Tselem.
Tel Rumeida may soon more closely resemble Shuhada street, the formerly bustling commercial center in Hebron’s Old City which is now shuttered and closed to Palestinians for the benefit of Israeli settlers.
Nearly all the approximately two dozen stores around Hebron’s historic Ibrahimi mosque have been closed since Israel placed new restrictions on Palestinians in the city, B’Tselem reported last month.
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