Occupied Jerusalem: Dozens of Jewish colonists, escorted by heavy police force, took over at least seven empty buildings in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem on Tuesday.
The buildings are located in the Wadi Hilweh neighbourhood of Silwan, only some 300 metres across from Al Aqsa Mosque compound and the Al Buraq Wall.
A few Palestinian youths hurled stones at the force.
One of them attempted to enter one of the seized buildings, but failed.
Silwan is already home to about 50 Jewish colonist families who live there under heavy guard.
Over the past two decades, Elad, a far-right colonist group, has taken control of dozens of homes in the neighbourhood.
Palestinians say the homes were acquired via indirect deals, with the owners not knowing they sold their homes to Jewish colonists.
Silwan is located in occupied East Jerusalem, a territory that the Israeli regime occupied in the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed it in a move which has not been recognised internationally.
