#0202_A_View_From_East_Jerusalem

News Digest: East Jerusalemites Respond to Last Weeks' Spate of Violence [1]

"A call to residents and dear drivers.
Take caution and do not drive your cars unless it is necessary because there are groups of settlers' gathering at the Jaba roundabout, northeast of Jerusalem. [They are] under the protection of the Occupation army. "

– The Qalandiya Media Center

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"Settlers blocked the Jaba junction in the northeast of Jerusalem a while ago and attacked Palestinians."

– Al-Quds News Network

[Selected Comments:]
– "It's their natural right … as long as there are people to protect and defend, they have the right to do even more than this… Damn us and how cheap we are to our leaders."
-"They are all settlers, and the person who shot is a soldier in civilian clothes … He fired the shot to expel the settlers."
– "They asked the man who fired 'Who are you ?!' Looks like he was a soldier in civilian clothes."

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"Urgent!!!
Nadal al-Faqih from the Shuafat refugee camp was brutally attacked during his work as Kavim bus driver in Modi'in-Kiryat Sefer."

-Muhannad Abu Raya

– The public [Arab] Jerusalemites drivers page [2]

[Translation of Selected Comments:]
-"People, stop working and strike today, Friday. Let the great and small people know what they did, and if you continue like that, they will continue to beat you every time."
– "A strike of all the Arab drivers! Teach them… [We are] one hand/
-"Only some people say, 'Why should it concern me?' And then comes their turn. Every Arab driver is exposed to such things and more. May you and everyone be safe."
-"If you understand, no one will go to work tomorrow."
-"The war has started, stop this you are good people"
-"Be healthy, Nadal, may God help."
– "Oh wow! May Allah break their hands."

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"The Qalandiya checkpoint in the direction of Jerusalem was closed a short while ago."

– Beit Hanina al-Quds

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"Anyone who does not have urgent arrangements, do not leave your house, Settlers are behaving wildly everywhere."
– Anata Al-Hadath – Jerusalem

[Selected Comments:]
– "Fear and the world sits quietly."
-"The old days when the settlers were afraid to walk in the street have passed. Now we have to sit in our houses, what injustice, what injustice. We have to go out into the streets and annoy them because the righteous must stand and the cowards will be in their holes."
-"We are warning you because we have to be realistic: Our strength is not like the power of the settlers, they have weapons and the army backs them. If you run away from them and touched someone [by accident], they will say claim it is a terrorist attack."

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"The Occupation set up a checkpoint to check vehicles in the village of Issawiya in Jerusalem."

Al-Quds Media Center

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"Occupation forces raid and search the industrial area of the village Anata"

– Anata News

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0202 Editor's Note:
[1] For an additional post about last week's spate of violence see: https://bit.ly/2SSwlc4
[2] Attached to the original post about the bus driver was a video that may be disturbing for some viewers. It can be seen in the attached link at the end of the post. Attached image credit: Association of Bus Drivers in Israel.

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http://katzr.net/0db4d3
http://katzr.net/00a67c
http://katzr.net/30dd18
http://katzr.net/27a970

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