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Al Jazeera Staff

‘We won’t leave’: Armenians in Jerusalem push back against armed settlers

Protest against the contentious land deal in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem on June 30 2023 [Al Jazeera]

Old City, occupied East Jerusalem – After learning that settlers had returned to bulldoze in an area of the parking lot near his house in the Armenian Quarter, 80-year-old Garo Nalbandian, a professional photographer, joined a community sit-in in the area known as the Cows’ Garden with, of course, his trusty camera.

“We won’t leave,” a determined Nalbandian said gruffly in between snapping photos of Armenians on one side of the makeshift barricade and Israeli police and hired security on the other.

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