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East Jerusalem residents anguished as homes demolished to make way for biblical park

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Yusra Qwaider is 97 years old, bedridden and helpless: within days, bulldozers from the Jerusalem municipality will come to tear down the home she's lived in for over 50 years. If the demolition in the Al-Bustan neighbourhood goes ahead, it will be the third time she's lost her home -- this time to make way for an archaeology and tourism park in the Silwan area just outside the Old City."I don't know what to do... I want to stay in my home," she told AFP from her bed in the house where she lives

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