Palestine Street or Falastin Street ( ar, شارع فلسطين) is a

street A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, ...

located in eastern

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

. It runs parallel and to the west of

Army Canal view of Qanat al-Jaish in Baghdad Army Canal ( in Arabic) is a waterway connecting the Tigris and Diyala rivers, forms the western boundary of Sadr City, and when completed, will once again supply irrigation water to nearby agricultural areas an ...

between Mustanssiriya square, through Beirut square to Maysalon square, in the neighborhoods of Mustansiriya, Nile, Al-Muthanna to the west and 14 July, Al-Idrisi, the Martyr Monument, and AlMuthanna to the east. The street was established in the 1960s when the government started a plan to extend Baghdad by adding new neighborhoods. A recent incident took place on Falastin Street where a number of Westerners were kidnapped, in a snatch operation that reportedly involved up to 40 gunmen traveling in an official-looking convoy. A security source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq that the incident took place in Falastin Street, eastern Baghdad. "Gunmen stopped a vehicle and brought out its passengers, believed to be carrying German passports, at gunpoint, and took them in a vehicle to an unknown place," said the source, who declined to be named. According to the Iraqi Interior Ministry official, the ''New York Times'' reports, the attack occurred just outside the Technology and Information Directorate, a section of the Finance Ministry located on Palestine Street, a religiously mixed area near

Sadr City Sadr City ( ar, مدينة الصدر, translit=Madīnat aṣ-Ṣadr), formerly known as Al-Thawra ( ar, الثورة, aṯ-Ṯawra) and Saddam City ( ar, مدينة صدام, Madīnat Ṣaddām), is a suburb district of the city of Baghdad, Iraq. ...

. The Palestine Street area has witnessed many recent reconstruction efforts, whereby many trees were planted by Baghdad municipality, and fountains and playgrounds were constructed. Palestinian Street is the leading commercial and shopping center in eastern Baghdad.

References

The Musical Culture of Iraqi Jewry: Three Countries and Two Continents
by Galia Ben-Mordechai * "Along Palestine Street, a once vibrant commercial district, shop owners were relieved not by the greater military presence, but by the absence of Mahdi Army militiamen from neighboring Sadr City, the impoverished Shiite district and militia stronghold." fro

''Washington Post''. Published February 26, 2007.

by Edward Wong. Published January 12, 2004. * "In years gone by, Palestine Street was the site of one of the biggest celebrations of Baath party control.
Baghdad not in party mood
By

Jonny Dymond Jonathan 'Jonny' David Dymond (born 15 February 1970 in Merton, London) is a British journalist. He is currently a Royal Correspondent for BBC News, having previously been the BBC's Washington Correspondent, Europe Correspondent (based in Bruss ...

. BBC News, 18 July 2003.
Baghdad streets

Visiting US Consulate: Crossing the Road Can Be Hazardous
Arab News.

Palestine __NOTOC__ Palestine may refer to: * State of Palestine, a state in Western Asia * Palestine (region), a geographic region in Western Asia * Palestinian territories, territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely the West Bank (including East ...

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