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Har Homa

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Har Homa from Beit Sahour
Har Homa from Beit Sahour

Har Homa (Hebrew: הר חומה, lit Wall Mountain), officially Homat Shmuel, is an Israeli settlement in southern East Jerusalem, near the Palestinian city of Beit Sahour. The settlement is also referred to as "Jabal Abu Ghneim" (also "Jabal Abu Ghunaym"), which is the Arabic name of the hill. One purpose given for the decision approving of its establishment was to obstruct the growth of the nearby Palestinian city of Bethlehem.The settlement was officially renamed Homat Shmuel in 1998 after Shmuel Meir, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, who played an active role in its development before he was killed in a car accident in 1996.In 2013, Har Homa had a population of 25,000.Built on 1,850 dunams of land Israel expropriated in 1991, the international community considers Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.

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Har Homa
Yehuda Lau Picard, Jerusalem Homat Shmuel

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N 31.725277777778 ° E 35.221666666667 °
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Yehuda Lau Picard 15
9350004 Jerusalem, Homat Shmuel
Jerusalem District, Israel
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Har Homa from Beit Sahour
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