For some Palestinians in love, this slum is the only place to live
2017年11月9日 · JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Kafr Aqab is no one's dream destination: the overcrowded neighbourhood separated from adjacent East Jerusalem by Israel's barrier in the occupied West Bank is notorious...
List of slums - Wikipedia
A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005. [1]
Scam City: Jerusalem - The Dark Truth about the Sacred Sites of …
2022年12月7日 · From fake holy men at the Western Wall, to pickpockets on the Mount of Olives, Conor uncovers the dark truth about the sacred sites of the holy city. In the city’s souvenir markets and upscale...
Demography in Jerusalem’s Old City - The Jerusalem Post
2013年7月13日 · In other words, it was “the world’s most historic slum,” (New York Times, May 7, 1969) and one of the most crowded areas in the world – back to back with the newly renovated Jewish Quarter.
East Jerusalem, where the streets had no names
Though there are slums in west Jerusalem and upscale neighborhoods in the eastern sector, most parts follow that pattern. Contact between Jews and Arabs, common in the first two decades after...
Israeli settlers rampage in Palestinian town in West Bank
2022年10月13日 · Tensions in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem have soared since a Palestinian assailant shot and killed an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint at the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp earlier this week. Late Thursday, the extremist far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir visited Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood that has become a focal point of heightened ...
Archaeological Digs Stoke Conflict in Jerusalem - The Nation
2008年7月30日 · The race for "Jewish" bedrock has turned a Jerusalem slum's archaeological riches into an existential threat.
Widespread unrest in Jerusalem over latest Israeli clampdown
2022年10月13日 · Tensions in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem have been soaring since a suspected Palestinian assailant shot and killed an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint at the entrance to the Shuafat refugee camp...
Jerusalem’s Neighborhoods behind the Wall - Jerusalem Story …
In Jerusalem as in the rest of the country, land is the locus of the struggle for control. Here we explore the status of land in Jerusalem and its environs.
Slum as Sacrament - A Jerusalem in Kathmandu - Coracle
2017年3月3日 · The slum of Danaseri in Kathmandu, Nepal is a sacred place on par with the island of Iona in Scotland, St. Peter’s in Rome, Jerusalem, and Lourdes. Danaseri doesn’t look like much at the first glance. It looks like a place you …