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Palestinian youth are seen in front of Al Issawiya village, East Jerusalem, Wednesday, January 11, 2012. A new "national park" planned by the Jerusalem municipality will cause extensive confiscation of lands from Al Issawiya and Al Tur neighborhoods. Designating sites as national parks is a common practice of the Jerusalem municipality aimed at limiting the very dense and populated Palestinian East Jerusalem neighborhoods, cutting off their possibilities of development and working on the few remaining agricultural lands. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

WATCH: How Palestinian land becomes an Israeli national park

Issawiya, a crowded Palestinian village situated on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus, is home to 23,000 people. The municipality is planning to build a national park atop land belonging to the village, rather than building schools and infrastructure that would benefit its residents. The Palestinian residents of the village aren’t taking the decision lying…

By Social TV August 18, 2015