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Wadi Hilweh
Palestinian village and Israeli settlement site / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wadi Hilweh is a neighborhood in the Palestinian Arab village of Silwan, intertwined with an Israeli settlement called the City of David.[1][2][3] 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.
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The Wadi Hilweh neighborhood stretches over historical Jerusalem's so-called Southeast Hill, [lower-alpha 1] 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,[clarification needed] on the southwest slope of the Mount of Olives, then in the early twentieth century[dubious – discuss] 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.[5]