Gilo

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Coordinates: 31 ° 44 '  N , 35 ° 11'  E

View of Gilo and the tunnel highway to Gush Etzion from Beit Jala

Gilo ( Hebrew : גילה) is a Jewish residential area founded in 1971 on the southern edge of Jerusalem with around 27,000 inhabitants (2007). The area was annexed by Jordan after the Palestine War in 1948 and conquered by Israel after the Six Day War in 1967 . The international community and the UN regard Gilo as an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank , while Israel refers to Gilo as part of the city of Jerusalem.

geography

Gilo is located on the southern edge of Jerusalem, overlooking the Palestinian city of Beit Jala , from which it is separated by a gorge. Beit Safafa and Sharafat are in the north, Bethlehem in the south. The tunnel highway to Gush Etzion runs in the east below Gilo.

Biblical Gilo

A city called Gilo is mentioned in the book of Joshua ( Jos 15.51  EU ) and in the 2nd book Samuel ( 2 Sam 15.12  EU ) and ( 2 Sam 23.34  EU ) as the place of birth and death of Ahitofels , "the Gilonite" . The biblical Gilo is believed to be significantly further south and could be identical to Churbet Jala, north of Hebron.

Modern Gilo

Map of the region

Gilo covers an area of ​​2,859 dunams . According to Meron Benvenisti , the former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Gilo was built on Palestinian land that was confiscated by the Israeli government after the conquest of the West Bank in 1967. The Israeli settlement was built from 1973 to 1979 on land in the Palestinian village of Beit Jala, and the Palestinian residents have not been allowed to harvest their own olives on the land below the settlement since then. According to a report by the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem , half of the land in the Palestinian village of al-Walajah was also confiscated by the Israeli government for the construction of the Gilo and Har Gilo settlements, and Israel began to enclose the village with a concrete wall. According to Donna Rosenthal, Israel Kimhi of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies said that Gilo was built in 1973 largely on land acquired by Jews before World War II. (This claim is missing in the German edition of your book.)

Concrete wall to protect Gilos

Gilo during the second intifada

From autumn 2000, during the Second Intifada , Gilo was shot at frequently from Beit Jala. Property damage occurred and police officers and civilians were injured. The Israeli government responded with military action in Beit Jala and the construction of a concrete wall around Gilo. In August 2010 the wall was dismantled by the Israeli army.

Plans to expand Gilos

The plans announced by the Israeli government in November 2009 to add 900 new housing units to Gilo have been sharply criticized by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and the governments of numerous countries, including the USA and Germany . Nevertheless, on September 27, 2011, the Israeli government approved the construction of 1,100 new Jewish housing units. November 2016 the construction of a further 3,000 apartments in Gilo was approved.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Jerusalem After the Six Day War (1967) , June 27, 1967 (English), accessed March 9, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Ban Ki Moon criticizes Israel's settlement building as illegal. on: Zeit-online. November 18, 2009, p. 4. (accessed November 18, 2009)
  3. ^ Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Yishai Eldar: Jerusalem - Architecture since 1948. December 1, 2001. (English), accessed March 9, 2010
  4. ↑ Biblos.com: Bible text and map , accessed on 9 March 2010
  5. ↑ Meron Benvenisti: The West Bank Handbook. A Political Lexicon. Westview Press, 1986, p. 195.
  6. ↑ Kathleen Kern: In Harm's Way. A History of Christian Peacemaker Teams . Lutterworth Press, 2009, p. 193.
  7. ↑ Arthur G. Gish: Hebron Journal. Stories of Nonviolent Peacemaking. Herald Press, 2001, p. 255.
  8. ^ Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. Annual Report 2011 (PDF; 3.1 MB), p. 47.
  9. ^ Donna Rosenthal: The Israelis: ordinary people in an extraordinary land. Simon & Schuster, New York 2003, ISBN 0684869721 , p. 397.
  10. ↑ Donna Rosenthal: The Israelis. Living in an extraordinary country. CH Beck, 2007.
  11. ↑ Arafat's people "sold" shots on Gilo to Hamas, Jihad In: Israelnetz.de , December 7, 2001, accessed August 1, 2018.
  12. ^ Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Positioning of forces in the town of Beit Jalla in order to prevent Palestinian fire on Jerusalem. Communicated by the IDF Spokesman, August 28, 2001. Retrieved March 9, 2010
  13. ↑ The wall is gone. on: Spiegel online. August 30, 2010.
  14. ↑ Dietrich Alexander, Danielle Zilberberg: Federal Chancellor: Merkel finds sharp words for Israel's settlement plans . In: welt.de . December 3, 2012, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  15. ↑ "International Criticism of Israel's Settlements" ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de , September 27, 2011.
  16. ^ Tamar Pileggi: Trump win spurs plans for Jerusalem building spree over Green Line November 20, 2016

Web links

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