In December, several residents of Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, received a leaflet from the Israeli government announcing that their land would be expropriated for the construction of the pillars for a cable car. Silwan is located at the foot of the walled Old City, which contains important holy places for Jews, Muslims and Christians.

Today I read in the newspaper that Ghada Sabatien, a widowed Palestinian mother of six in her forties, has been killed by Israeli forces. Shot because she apparently ignored soldiers’ calls and warning fire to stop approaching them and died from a torn artery and massive blood loss. No weapon was found on her body.