Old City walls in east Jerusalem....

A Palestinian woman walks up a hill in the neighborhood of Silwan in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009.

A Palestinian woman carries a child over a muddy alley in the neighborhood of Silwan in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009.

A Palestinian girl looks out on the ruins of a demolished house in the neighborhood of Silwan in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009.

The Dome of the Rock mosque is seen in background of the neighborhood of Silwan in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009.

A Palestinian youth carries a bucket through an alleyway in the neighborhood of Silwan in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009. Just outside the Old City walls in east Jerusalem and near the city's holiest shrines for Jews and Muslims, the ramshackle Arab neighborhood of Silwan stands atop a site Israelis call the City of David, named for the Biblical monarch who ruled a Jewish kingdom from the spot 3,000 years ago. The Israeli government has designated the area an archaeological park whose expansion the Arab homes limit. Arab residents say they owned the land before Israel occupied east Jerusalem in 1967 and consider the demolition orders an effort to diminish their presence in the capital of a hoped-for Palestinian state