Wadi Hilweh
Wadi Hilweh er et nabolag i den palestinske gamle landsbyen Silwan, og i den er innflettet en israelsk bosetting.[1][2][3]
Silwan-området i Øst-Jerusalem ble annektert av Israel etter Seksdagerskrigen i 1967, og ved Jerusalem-loven (1980), noe som ikke har vunnet internasjonal anerkjennelse. Verdenssamfunnet betrakter de israelske bosetninger (settlements) som ulovlige ifølge internasjonal lov, skjønt Israel avviser dette.
Nabolaget Wadi Hilweh strekker seg fra det historiske Jerusalems såkalte sørøstre høyde (Southeast Hill), og ned fra de sørlige bymurer av Gamlebyen. Ifølge tradisjonen oppstod landsbyen Silwan på Saladins tid, på 1100-tallet, på Ras al-Amud på sørvestskråningen nær Oljeberget, og rundt århundreskiftet 1900 ekspanderte det over Kidrondalen (lokalt kjent som Wadi Sitti Maryam, Den hellige Marias dal), for etterhvert å omfatte hele Sørøstre høyde.[4]
Davidsbyen – et arkeologisk felt ned i deler av oldtidens «Davids by» – ligger i Wadi Hilweh.
Referanser[rediger | rediger kilde]
- ^ Wendy Pullan and Max Gwiazda, Jerusalem's 'City of David': The Politicisation of Urban Heritage Arkivert 9. august 2017 hos Wayback Machine. Arkivert 2017-08-09 hos Wayback Machine, Divided Cities/Contested States Working Paper No. 6, 2008, p.12: "The 'City of David' is formally treated as a settlement; making homes for Jewish people is seen as an integral part of El-Ad's heritage stewardship"
- ^ The Independent, "Israeli foreign ministry cadets to defend 'legality' of West Bank settlements", 1. november 2015, "Among the new sessions to be added to the cadet's course are a lecture on the legality of the settlements based on the claim that the West Bank is not occupied territory, according to The Times of Israel. It also includes a tour of the “City of David” settlement in the Palestinian Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, to be led by settler leader David Be'eri, who seeks its transformation, based on biblical claims, into a Jewish area."
- ^ Sixty-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan: Report by the Secretary-General Arkivert 4. november 2018 hos Wayback Machine., A/69/348, 25. august 2014: "Archaeological excavations and parks are also used as a way to control land for settlements, mainly through the funding, participation and endorsement by the Government of Israel of archaeological projects led by settler organizations. Observer organizations report that several archaeological projects in the Old City of Jerusalem are being used as a means to consolidate the presence of settlements and settlers in the area. On 3 April 2014, despite several objections presented by Palestinian residents of the Silwan neighbourhood, a Palestinian community with a population of 45,000, located around the southern Old City wall in East Jerusalem, the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee approved a project known as the Kedem Compound.36 The Kedem Compound includes a museum, a visitors centre, and a parking lot covering around 16,000 square metres. The plan was presented by Israel's Nature and Parks Authority and the Ir David Foundation, also known as Elad, which works to strengthen the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, notably the Silwan area. The Kedem Compound would constitute a gateway to the City of David National Park, a touristic archaeological site controlled by the same organization."
- ^ Galor 2017, s. 119.
Litteratur[rediger | rediger kilde]
- Galor, Katharina (2017). Finding Jerusalem: Archaeology between Science and Ideology. University of California Press. s. 119–131. ISBN 978-0-520-96807-3., Chapter 7: The City of David / Silwan
- Greenberg, Rafi (10. november 2014). «Ethics in Action: A Viewpoint from Israel/Palestine». I Alfredo González-Ruibal and Gabriel Moshenska. Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4939-1643-6.