THE television in Zuheir Rajabi's lounge does not show films or the news: the only footage projected on its huge flat screen is from 10 surveillance cameras installed around his modest east Jerusalem home.
Rajabi lives in Silwan, a poor neighbourhood just outside the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, made up of dusty trash-strewn alleys, with electrical cables dangling low off their poles.
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Children of Israeli settlers play in an indoor playground at the Beit Yonatan apartments building complex in Silwan. — AFP
An Israeli settler holds a toddler as children play in an indoor playground at the Beit Yonatan apartments building complex in Silwan. — AFP
Nira Rabinowicz, 36, mother of seven, walks with two of her children in a street, in Silwan.— AFP
One of Zuheir Rajabi's children in front of the family home. — AFP
Jawad Siam, the founder of Wadi Hilweh Information Center-Silwan. In 1970, Israel passed a law allowing Jews to reclaim property they had lost in or before 1948, the year of Israel's creation which also saw authority over east Jerusalem pass from British to Jordanian control. — AFP
Rajabi's family in front of the family home in Silwan.—Photos: AFP
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