This Palestinian district of the Holy City was completed and made up for four days by the Israeli army.
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The Israeli authorities seemed to have chosen the appeasement on Thursday, October 13. East Jerusalem found a relative and precarious calm, after a day of strike and a night of riots, during which the holy city was swept away by the violence that has extended to the West Bank for months.
At the checkpoint that bars the entrance to the Palestinian district of Shuafat, the soldiers let out a meager flood of cars, under the order of the Minister of Public Security, Omer Bar-Lev. Jerusalem has ignited, in solidarity with these 60,000 Palestinians, who had been largely curled in their neighborhood for four days, while the armed forces have chased a single man. On October 8, Udi Tamimi, 22, killed a soldier on this checkpoint, who opened to the Jewish city. He remains on the run.
Behind the chicane in concrete walls which channels the outings, of young Palestinians with red -eyed eyes are custody. They fear new incursions from the armed forces. Slaloment cars at low speed between overturned trash cans and lots of charred tires, which smoke or still burn.
These defense dams extend far into the main street and in a perpendicular artery which gives access to the heart of Shuafat, the only refugee camp in Jerusalem. On the ground, sockets of rubber bullets testify to the clashes of the day before. During the night, facing hundreds of rioters across the city, Israeli forces have also shot real bullets.
strike and lowered curtains
“They keep us prisoners. It is a collective punishment”, denounces Mohamad Abu Sanad, in the twenties, for whom the shooter of the control is “a hero”. The images of his attack have been looping since October 8. On a video broadcast by the authorities, we see him calmly from the rear seat of a car, arrested between the healed. A group of half a dozen soldiers let him approach without reacting. At a meter just a distance, he brandished a pistol and fired on them, on several occasions. Then he fled in the night, towards his neighborhood.
Mohamad Abou Sanad and his friends all work in Israel. Mohamad in a restaurant. Another sweeps the streets for the town hall. A third is used in the building. They say they are on strike and will not work today, even if the soldiers have lightened their controls at the entrances to the neighborhood, which aroused monster traffic jams, actually cutting it from the city. The day before, the schools of East Jerusalem have closed their doors.
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