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When we talk
about Jerusalem we talk about Jerusalem in 1947, together with the
neighbouring towns
included the municipal boundaries in 1948. As well as 32 villages
and towns, which have
been demolished.
Jerusalem is related to
the land of Palestine, to the Muslims and Christians, to their
holy places, to their
beliefs, and to the Palestinian people. When I say to Muslims and
Christians I said it
because the Christians are not an ethnic minority as many people
think, they are a major
component of the Palestinian population.
Jerusalem is the capital
of Palestine; it is the symbol of the inalienable rights of the
Palestinian people.
A population cannot be
separated from the sovereign forms for which it yearns.
Before the 1967 war,
West Jerusalem covered 53 square kilometers and had 195,000
inhabitants.
East Jerusalem covered
six square kilometers with 75,000 inhabitants. Nowadays, 28
Israeli settlements have
been added to the city and there are 330,000 Israelis in West
Jerusalem, and 160,000
Palestinians in East Jerusalem. The Israeli government
Eradicated he
Palestinian population 1967-71 and 1980-81 and in 1995.
The maps of the city
have been change and develop over the years. There are Palestinian
villages and towns that
don’t appear on the map.
Following the 1967 war,
the Arab municipality of East Jerusalem was dissolved by force
and was annexed it to
the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem. During that year, more
than one third of the
land in East Jerusalem has been expropriated by the Israeli
government.
Under international law
or any international resolution no country can annex territory by
force. The entire world
has never recognized the unilateral annexation of East Jerusalem
by Israel.
Jerusalem’s roots go
back 5,000 years to the time when the city of Arab Yabous was
founded. Jerusalem is a
historic city of culture, heritage, with singular monuments. Is very
visible the ruins of
public buildings from the Roman, Byzantine times. We can find as
well
Muslims mosques and
tombs of saints and Crusaders fortresses.
Jerusalem is a city of
Arab-Islamic and Christian heritage.
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