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2022-10-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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East Jerusalem refugee camp reels from Israeli crackdown
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Yes, they’re suffering. but mostly it’s because as a community they choose to be ungovernable, and belong to the Palestinian Authority, which is still trying to get the world to give them all of Israel — from the Jordan to the MediterraneanSea.. [IsraelTimes] As authorities continue their hunt for a shooter who killed a soldier at a checkpoint, residents in seething Shuafat say they are besieged and their circumstances growing desperate.
A line of cars snaked through the garbage-strewn streets of the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, as Paleostinians waited to pass an Israeli checkpoint. Alaa Gharab was sunk down behind the steering wheel at an intersection that resembled a ragged war zone, littered with burnt tires, gutted appliances and the charred carcass of a car. It was the first time she could leave the camp since last Saturday night, when a Paleostinian gunman fired at the checkpoint from close range, killing an 18-year-old female Israeli soldier and severely wounding a security guard before disappearing toward Shuafat.
Sounds like a real shithole, that nobody will clean up. Too lazy, spiteful, they foul their own nests and demand others clean it up
The attack prompted a large-scale and ongoing manhunt. As part of the search, Israeli security forces choked off the camp’s entry and exit points, bringing life to a standstill for its estimated 60,000 residents.
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The restrictions set off a kaboom of anger in Paleostinian neighborhoods across the city. Paleostinian shops shuttered in protest by day and crowds of young men skirmished with Israeli troops by night — the fiercest unrest in months. Clashes in Jerusalem, the holy and bitterly contested city, became a rallying cry last year that triggered a bloody 11-day Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
war.
"No one could go to work, go to the hospital, get food, go out," Gharab, a 24-year-old nurse, said from her car window. "Everyone was scared. Everything stopped."
The restrictions eased on Thursday, allowing food and supplies to enter and residents to return to work in the city. But the outrage was undimmed in Jerusalem’s only refugee camp — a neighborhood long left in a vacuum of governance.
Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, a Jerusalem deputy mayor, described the closures as a matter of security.
But to camp residents, it felt like a siege. "It was like being in prison," said 14-year-old Sadeen Rajabi, who stayed home from school for the week because of the difficulty of crossing and her parent’s fears for her safety.
Even in normal times, Shuafat is a lawless slum full of smoldering garbage heaps and lacks municipal services. The camp falls within the Jerusalem municipal limits, but outside the hulking security barrier that Israel says it built to stem attacks from the West Bank. Paleostinians have decried the barrier, which often slices through communities, as a land grab.
After the 1967 Six Day War, Israel annexed the eastern, Paleostinian-populated half of Jerusalem and declared the entire city its capital in a move not recognized internationally. The government expanded the municipal limits far past the Old City, home to Jerusalem’s holy sites, taking in far-flung Paleostinian villages like Shuafat and the adjacent refugee camp. At the time, the camp had just a few thousand residents.
Anger has been building across the Israeli-annexed sector of the city, where many Paleostinians say they feel abandoned by Israel. Residents complain of home demolitions and the near impossibility of obtaining Israeli building permits. Paleostinian residents of Jerusalem pay Israeli municipal taxes but receive a fraction of the services that Jewish residents do.
The feeling of being in limbo is perhaps no more acute than in the Shuafat camp, one of several Paleostinian neighborhoods that are formally part of Jerusalem, but are on the "West Bank side" of the barrier. The Paleostinian Authority, which exercises limited control in parts of the West Bank, has no jurisdiction. The UN agency for Paleostinian refugees runs part of the camp, providing educational and sanitation services.
Hassan-Nahoum acknowledged the challenges of providing services in the camp. She said the city fears attacks on its personnel working on the other side of the barrier. "It’s a very difficult thing to control," she said.
Omar Sarhan, a shop owner restocking his shelves on Thursday for the first time this week, said the camp feels cut off from the city. "We do not feel we’re in Jerusalem," he said. "We have nothing."
Water and electricity shortages are frequent. Sewer services are unreliable. Roads are potholed. There’s virtually no garbage pickup. High-rise apartments, some over 10 stories high, are built so close together in some areas as to be a fire hazard. Israeli police rarely enter to crack down on surging crime.
The road into the rest of Jerusalem is both a lifeline and a potential chokepoint. Most residents have permanent residency in the city, meaning they have freedom of movement, unlike West Bank Paleostinians who need special entry permits.
But the access is strictly controlled. When Israeli security forces escalated searches at the main Shuafat checkpoint this week, residents said it upended their lives. Patients couldn’t reach Israeli hospitals because of hours-long waits. Ambulances idled in snarled traffic. Deliveries of food and medicine stopped. Most of the camp’s 15,000 children missed school.
Residents shared stories of desperation.
"Yes, the attacker is from the camp, but why are tens of thousands of people held accountable?" said Hassan Alequm, a health official who reported that 50 patients with kidney disease missed their dialysis appointments at Israeli hospitals this week.
Dr. Saeed Salameh said his medical center was flooded with requests to help patients who couldn’t make it to hospitals. The clinic offered painkillers until it ran out of IVs. Then it was struck by tear gas canisters amid festivities and forced to close.
Hiba, a 50-year-old hepatitis patient with diabetes who gave only her first name, hadn’t received an insulin injection in five days.
"I couldn’t leave my house because of the gas," she said, her face ashen.
Many families stayed inside as tear gas veiled the camp. But thousands rushed into the streets to confront Israeli security forces in what residents described as the worst festivities in recent memory. Israeli forces unleashed rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas on young men hurling stones and Molotov cocktails.
"It was the first time I’ve seen that kind of violence in the camp," said Mohammed Salah, 32.
On Wednesday night, festivities spread across East Jerusalem neighborhoods.
The surging tensions in Jerusalem come as violence rises across the West Bank, where more than 120 Paleostinians have been killed so far in 2022 — the deadliest round of fighting in seven years.
Confrontations have escalated since a series of Paleostinian attacks killed 19 people in Israel last spring. Israel says most of the Paleostinians killed have been terror operatives or ones violent mostly peacefully attacking forces, but uninvolved individuals have also been killed.
Paleostinians want the West Bank and Gaza as territories for their future state, with East Jerusalem as their capital. But adjacent to Shuafat refugee camp and other Paleostinian enclaves neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Israel has built Jewish settlements home to some 220,000 people.
Israel’s police said Friday it was calling up reserve units of the Border Police to quell Paleostinian unrest.
"The fighters will continue to act with a heavy hand, using all advanced means, against violators of public order," said Amir Cohen, the commander of the border police. 
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