News - Jerusalem police demand local Armenians to vacate disputed area of ‘Cows’ Garden’

The Jerusalem police have demanded local Armenians to vacate the area of “Armenian Gardens”—known as the “Cows' Garden” in the Old City of Jerusalem—, and accused them of misappropriation of property. Daniel Seidemann reported this on X, adding that the Armenian community of Jerusalem is resisting. The police carry out the orders of the settlers of the Armenian Quarter; demand that the residents vacate the area and the besiegers take possession, Seidemann noted. Since November 12, a large group of Jerusalemite Armenians, in cooperation with the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, are on duty in protest in the area of “Cows' Garden” and have barricaded the access to the wall, with cars and fences, in order to impede any further illegal construction on the Armenian property. The Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Nourhan Manougian, had leased the area of “Cows' Garden” to a Jewish businessman for 99 years. This decision, however, caused a lot of uproar; but after a long battle, this deal was canceled.