Eyes Wide Open | Photo Blog
February 2020
Walls of Batan al-Hawa cry out neglect and dispossession
A mural in the “I Witness Silwan” street art project.
For Palestinians, life in Batan al-Hawa is a pressure cooker. The neighborhood, located in Silwan in East Jerusalem, is deliberately neglected by the Israeli authorities, primarily the Jerusalem municipality and suffers overcrowding and a lack of basic public infrastructure needed for everyday life.
To make matters worse, residents live under a constant threat of eviction, as the Israeli authorities, using the Ateret Cohanim settler…
Israel’s regime of occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B’Tselem strives to end the occupation, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.