Local residents gather to protest the potential threat to a historic site in Jerusalem's old city, claiming that the deal undervalued the land and was made without community consent.
It’s almost midnight and a group of people nervously talk among themselves on Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate Road in Jerusalem ’s old city . One man holds a muzzled dog, while another speaks anxiously on a phone. The group becomes agitated as an Israeli police car drives down the narrow street towards the car park that lies on land owned by the local Armenian church.
Inside the car park, about 200 local residents of the Armenian quarter are gathered at the site that they say is under threat from an. Known as the Cow’s Garden, the site includes a seminary, community hall, five homes and represents 25 per cent of the Armenian quarter’s land in the old city. Surrounded by historic ramparts, the car park is an important space for the 1,000 Armenians who still live within the old city and a possible site for affordable housin
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