Wadi Hilweh (original) (raw)

Wadi Hilweh is a neighborhood in the Palestinian Arab village of Silwan, intertwined with an Israeli settlement.The Silwan area of East Jerusalem was annexed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War and 1980 Jerusalem Law, an action not recognized internationally. The international community regards Israeli settlements as illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. The Wadi Hilweh neighborhood stretches over historical Jerusalem's so-called Southeast Hill, extending down from the southern city walls of the Old City. According to tradition, Silwan originated at the time of Saladin in the twelfth century on Ras al-Amud, on the southwest slope of the Mount of Olives, then in the early twentieth century it expanded across the Kidron Valley (known to locals as Wadi Sitti Maryam or the Valley of St. Mary), eventually incorporating all of the Southeast Hill. (en)

The development of the City of David / Wadi Hilweh area 1870-1931. A few small buildings can be seen on the hill facing the houses of Silwan in 1870; further houses were constructed in the following decades (en)

Here Ras al-Amud is clearly used as a topographic term, but it is nowhere explained what it represents: a hill, a cliff, a slope? The wikilinked artivles doesn't either, it doesn't even translate the name. Ras is head, and on the coast is used for cape, promontory, but here? (en)
Yemin Moshe is a neighbourhood in an entirely different location to Wadi Hilweh (en)

Wadi Hilweh is a neighborhood in the Palestinian Arab village of Silwan, intertwined with an Israeli settlement.The Silwan area of East Jerusalem was annexed by Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War and 1980 Jerusalem Law, an action not recognized internationally. The international community regards Israeli settlements as illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this. (en)