Houses are demolished and emptied, and vital streets closed for Palestinians. Since several decades, the presence of militant Israeli Jewish settlers in Hebron’s Old Town is a threat to its physical and social survival. The aim of the committee’s work is to safeguard Hebron’s architectural heritage, but also to revive traditional craftsmanship, create jobs and allow the inhabitants to stay in their city. Zleikha Muhtaseb is on the list of approved visitors.ASF-Sweden engages in a project of cooperation with the Hebron Rehabilitation Committee, which since 1996 has been restoring the ancient fabric and upgrading the infrastructure of the Old Town of Hebron - one of the oldest cities in the world and a cultural heritage for humanity. Yousef tends to his goats in an upstairs apartment. The soldiers manage a short list of relatives and friends who are allowed to enter the road and visit the family. Yousef and his mother, Sahar Rajabi, live on the second floor of a four-story building at the end of the nearly deserted street, which Palestinians refer to as "ghost town." After his neighbors from the floor above fled, the boy turned their apartment into a goat pen where he feeds and tends the animals.Ī few steps from Yousef’s home sits an Israeli military roadblock manned by two soldiers around-the-clock. Shuhada Street was placed on lockdown by Israel 12 years ago in an effort to safeguard the 800 or so Jewish settlers living among Hebron’s almost 200,000 Palestinians. What became known as the Cave of the Patriarch Massacre, has come to define the city, and Yousef's life. Hebron has been tense since American-born Baruch Goldstein fatally shot 29 Muslim worshippers and injured 125 at a local mosque on Feb.
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