Mount Gilo News Today

An Internal Civil Administration Document, in the Form of a Map and Excel Spreadsheet, Shows the Close Cooperation of State and Settlers in Dispossessing Palestinians

Located in the heart of the Jerusalem forest, the scenic area is replete with trenches and ancient dovecotes marking its history from the times of King David to David Ben-Gurion

We looked out at the view in front of us and could see al-Walaja on the mountain across from us, completely surrounded by Israel’s separation fence. Eventually it will be turned into a wall, and the Palestinians who grew up going to Ein Haniya, playing in the spring, singing songs, picking local herbs, and making tea on fires will only be allowed to enter it with a fee, and only during the hours set out by the Israeli Nature and Parks authority.

Yehuda Hadas Glick at a Likud primaries polling station, February 5, 2019. Police arrested detained former MK Yehuda Glick Saturday night on suspicion of trying to smuggle an illegal Palestinian Authority resident into Israeli territory at the alWalaja checkpoint near Mount Gilo, south of Jerusalem, two miles northwest of Bethlehem. After being detained for questioning, Glick claimed that he was driving a PA Arab hitchhiker he had picked up in his car on the way. According to the former Likud M...