![Residents of the Palestinian neighborhood, Jabal al-Mukaber, protest proposed demolition of their homes to make way for an expansion of a highway that would connect Israeli settler neighborhoods / credit: Jessica Buxbaum](https://towardfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DSC_3680-326x245.jpeg)
Hundreds of Palestinian Homes May Be Demolished to Expand Highway Connecting Israeli Settler Colonies
For the fifth week in a row, residents of Jabal al-Mukaber, a Palestinian neighborhood in Occupied East Jerusalem, demonstrated outside city hall against a municipal plan to demolish their homes to expand the American Road, a highway largely viewed as a bypass serving illegal Israeli settlements throughout Jerusalem, reports Jessica Buxbaum.