By Yair Ettinger, Haaretz – 24 Nov 2010
www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-settlers-win-ownership-of-east-jerusalem-home-after-lengthy-battle-1.326617
Settlers have moved into two Lowell-owned apartments in East Jerusalem this week, in what appears to be coincidence, though incident a day before led to clashes between Israelis and Palestinians.
A group of Israeli settlers entered another apartment in East Jerusalem on Wednesday, this time located in the A-Tur neighborhood on the Mount of Olives.
Like the apartment that settlers entered Tuesday in Jabal Mukkaber, this one, too, was purchased by Lowell Investment, a shell company set up to buy Palestinian assets on behalf of right-wing groups such as Elad, whose mission is to settle Jews in East Jerusalem.
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“The settlers arrived in the morning and began to break the lock,” a Palestinian resident of the building, who declined to give her name, told Haaretz. “We were frightened. The children are scared of them and of their guards. “Why do they come here?” she demanded. “They have a whole country. So why here of all places, in our house?”
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