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In September 2014, a local resident, Muhammad Abd Al-Majid Sunuqrut, 16, was shot during a protest. According to the teen’s father he was shot in the head with a rubber-coated bullet, reportedly, while walking to a mosque for evening prayers but according to the police he was shot in the leg and
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families built summer houses there. The largest and oldest landowning family of Wadi al-Joz were the Khatib family of Jerusalem, which, according to the family's oral history, settled in Jerusalem in the 14th century. They established agricultural estates, mills and fortified summer residences in
186:. The bulk of the population influx in Wadi al-Joz is attributed to migration from the villages of the West Bank in the 1950s and 1960s. In the center of Wadi al-Joz the shanty neighborhood of Jabal Abu Jibna was home to 350 residents, as of the 1990s, mainly from the vicinity of 126:
until permanently relocating to Wadi al-Joz in 1926. In the first quarter of the 20th century, the Hidmi family built several houses on the slopes of Wadi al-Joz. Members of the family first began settling in the valley in 1870 and employed day laborers from
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Wadi al-Joz is well known in Jerusalem for its car repair centres, based in an industrial zone created by the last Palestinian mayor of Jerusalem,
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and thereafter settled permanently in Jerusalem. In the early 1900s, an oil depot and distribution center was established in Wadi al-Joz.
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from the western neighborhoods of Jerusalem captured by Israel and migrants from West Bank villages owing to its proximity to the
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then fell injuring his head while throwing stones. His father complained of recent harassment, consisting of the use of
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neighborhood of the Old City, purchased the land in Wadi al-Joz in the late 19th century and today mainly reside in
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In 2007, a neighborhood association was formed to push for improvements in local services and infrastructure.
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to work their farms. The patriarch of the Hidmi family (originally called the Mu'awwad), entered
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built in 1939. Another mosque is the Hejazi Mosque built later in the 20th century.
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and its sparse population. Among the Jerusalemite refugees were residents of
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Wadi al-Joz developed into its current shape between the
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Skyline view of Wadi al-Joz in the foreground with the
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Index


Arabic
Hebrew
Palestinian
East Jerusalem
Kidron Valley
Old City of Jerusalem
Valley of Josaphat
Bible
Kidron Valley

Old City
Temple Mount
Jerusalem
Herod's Gate
Jerusalemite
Bab al-Hadid
Temple Mount
Isawiya
Anata
Palestine
Ibrahim Pasha
Egypt
Hebron
Peasants' Revolt

1948
1967 Arab-Israeli wars
refugees
Old City

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