Silwan is also the site of a large and controversial building plan adopted last week by the municipality's planning committee.
西尔万也是上周由市规划委员会通过的一项大规模且具争议的建设计划中的一处。
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Activist Abdel Halim Shaloudi, a member of the Committee for the Defense of the Territory of Silwan, believes the Israelis' real motive is to drive out the Arabs and make this a Jewish area.
An Israeli motorist runs down a masked Palestinian youth who was standing among a group of youngsters throwing stones at Israeli cars in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.