Wadi Hilweh
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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.
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]