Re-open Shuhada Street to Palestinians

Demonstration against Policy of Separation in Hebron.
Photo by ActiveStills.org.
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Palestinians are not allowed on the main street of Hebron.
Shuhada Street in the 1990s. Photo:ActiveStills. Taken from B'Tselem website.
Shuhada Street in the 1990s.

Shuhada Street now. Note the settler graffiti on the closed Palestinian shops.

See these photographs depicting the occupation. Some of them are of Shuhada Street.

Jerusalem

Open Shuhada Street Lecture Series - Prof. Shamil Jeppie to speak on 27 July

Posted Fri, 07/23/2010 - 11:43 by Open Shuhada Street

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Seminar for Activists in Khayelitsha

Posted Fri, 07/09/2010 - 14:07 by kiu.kim

OSS will be holding an educational seminar on Tuesday 13th July, 15h00-17h00 at Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

Open Shuhada Street condemns settlement activity in Sheikh Jarrah and attack on Israeli human rights and Shministism activist

Posted Sun, 03/28/2010 - 06:21 by Open Shuhada Street

1. Sheik Jarrah is a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. Jews call the area Simon the Just. The Palestinian residents settled there after fleeing from their homes in Haifa, West Jerusalem and other parts of Israel during the 1948 war. Property titles were promised to them but were never delivered. There are now 28 families, comprising over 500 people that face possible eviction.

Letter from Amos Goldberg and David Shulman

Posted Thu, 12/17/2009 - 10:03 by Open Shuhada Street

Dear friends,

As many of you know from our recent reports, rather terrible things are happening in Jerusalem. The Israeli government is pursuing a policy of forcing Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem and handing over their properties to Jewish settlers. The guiding idea is to plant colonies of fanatical Jewish settlers in the heart of Palestinian neighborhoods. Israeli courts have recently sanctioned such a move in Sheikh Jarrah, where three Palestinian families have now been evicted from their homes; another 28 homes are under a real threat. Needless to say, only Jews are allowed to reclaim property from before 1948 (in the case of Sheikh Jarrah, from Ottoman times, over a hundred years ago); Palestinians have no hope of reclaiming any of the hundreds of homes in West Jerusalem that once belonged to them.

[We recommend the following videos showing the evictions including the excellent report by Reuters (the third below).]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD2p6d16zBw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcjchhD3qBc&NR=1&feature=fvwp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eufahQKPkks&feature=fvw