Palestine is Calling, songs by Garth Hewitt - No 5, In the City of Jerusalem
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- From the heart of Palestinian suffering, we hear of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians happening right now as we see these pictures coming out of Jerusalem
The Salhiya family were forcibly removed from their home in East Jerusalem yesterday, 19th January 2022, and their house has been destroyed. Yasmine Salhiya said that the Israeli soldiers beat her 9 year old sister, and her aunt who is unable to move due to her injuries. The Palestinian Authority have accused the Israeli government of committing a war crime.
All images from Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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In the City of Jerusalem is on Garth's 'Easter Revolution' album
Words & music by Garth Hewitt
℗ & © 2021 Garth Hewitt Foundation
www.garthhewitt.org
In the city of Jerusalem
Chorus:
Today there’s ethnic cleansing in the city of Jerusalem the holy city bows its head in shame
today there's ethnic cleansing in the city of Jerusalem
Jerusalem betrays its own name
The City of peace betrays its own name
Voices of the oppressed cry out from East Jerusalem
Like Mohammed El Kurd in Sheik Jarrah
15 hundred Palestinians facing eviction
From Al Bustan, Silwan and Sheik Jarrah
Chorus: Today there's ethnic cleansing...
“We’re living on the brink of homelessness”
Israel is removing Palestinians from Jerusalem
So “We’re living on the brink of homelessness”
Because of war crimes of an occupying power
Middle:
It’s our home, it’s our land, it’s our city
How would you feel how would you feel
It’s our home, it’s our land, it’s our city
“They are evicting us from Humanity”
All we want is to be treated like human beings.
Chorus: Today there’s ethnic cleansing in the city of Jerusalem
Middle:
It’s our home, it’s our land, it’s our city
How would you feel how would you feel
It’s our home, it’s our land, it’s our city
“They are evicting us from humanity”
All we want is to be treated like human beings,
The city of peace must be a city for everyone
So Speak up. Speak out.
The Palestinians are rising
It is time to rally, rally behind them
Moved me to tears. Beautiful song, hits deep within your spirit
So touching ... heartfelt ... makes me cry .. thanks Garth
free Palestine♥thank you
Sad and true
What à beautiful song. The truth will always touch the heart.
Very nice song . Thank you for telling the truth
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Thank you Brother Garth for being a voice. With love India. Thank you for your songs.
Awesome your stories in your songs are great .you have a great way of saying . May peace be with you
Wow what a beautiful song ! Thank you so much for it.
Thank you Garth!
Love from a German antizionist 🇩🇪❤️🇵🇸
My life stories in the Israeli apartheid:
Since the Nakba in 1948, my Palestinian family has been displaced by Israeli forces from Jericho, their birth place, to three different refugee camps in the West Bank until they settled in one camp near Bethlehem, where they started their fourth new life after all of their assets they had in Jericho like houses, farms , shops, and lands were confiscated by the Israelis and simply given away to Israeli settlers who immigrated to Palestine from Eastern Europe.
After that my dad worked almost all of his life for Israeli building companies in the occupied West Bank to secure basic needs for his children. My mum and despite her mental illness caused by the displacement trauma, had somehow and miraculously managed to keep us all alive , and together.
However the saddest aspect of this brutal Israeli occupation was not the loss of our land in Jericho itself, but the overall poor living conditions we experienced under the apartheid military control where the Israeli soldiers can shoot and kill innocent Palestinians without being prosecuted. Of course, lack of basic human rights has been the main highlight of the Israeli occupiers who did not give neither my mum nor dad any health care, social care, life or health insurance , compensation for displacement , care home or even basic retirement salary as they later became frail and ill. My parents were lucky to bring up a family in such inhumane circumstances and for me they were my biggest heroes and without whom the story of my life would not be possible to tell.
The story of my family is just one of millions of similar stories in Palestine and I’m sure there are more horrific stories to be told, but there are also many others that can never be heard as their heroes are no longer with us.
Thank you for telling some of your story - it has a big impact. Would you be happy for us to quote this?
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Thank you so much brother . Look now where is gaza and palestine . Can you make song for gaza kids who are deing every ten minute a child killed .