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Pictures from Gilo: Community under Siege
December 2000
Gilo is a residential neighborhood of about 40,000 people which lies within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem. Its residents have been subject to unprovoked and deliberate shooting attacks by Palestinian militias launched from the adjacent Christian Arab village of Beit Jala. Israel has done its utmost to respond to the nightly attacks on Gilo with the greatest possible restraint, pinpointing only those buildings from which the attacks have been launched.
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Is the shooting going to continue forever?
By Etgar Lefkovits
(Jerusalem Post, December 7) - As darkness falls,
Sigal Levy steals into her kitchen to take out the food
that she had prepared for dinner, then runs out of the
room. She washes the dishes, she says, in the
bathtub. Takeout is not even a possibility as delivery
men refuse to come to her home.
"Tell me, is this a normal life?" the mother of three
young children asks.
Sigal lives on Gilo's Rehov Ha'anafa, which has borne
the brunt of most of the sniper fire that Palestinian
gunmen have aimed at the periphery of this southern
Jerusalem neighborhood for the past two and a half
months.
This week was particularly violent, with Gilo coming
under fire three times in the past four nights, usually
at about 7 p.m.
Photo: "Scoop 80" 
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Steel-enforced cement walls and sandbags protect the children who attend this school.
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Children in a playground behind protective cement wall.
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Photo: "Scoop 80"
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Apartment damaged by
fire ignited by shots.
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Photo: "Scoop 80"
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Artists paint landscapes on cement walls to make them less forbidding.
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