Aaron Bushnell Street in Jericho
August 7, 2024 1:56 PM Subscribe
Various news outlets, including Middle East Monitor, reported earlier this year that the Palestinian city of Jericho named a street after Aaron Bushnell, the US airman who self-immolated in February outside of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC in protest of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Aaron Bushnell Street is not shown on Google Maps. Can you help me find it?
Best answer: Using the general location found by Iris Gambol, and the photos of the dedication of the street shown in this Jerusalem Post article (which are found on Facebook here), the location of the street dedication and street sign shown in the article ("Aaron Bushnell St No. 230" in both English and Arabic) is at the intersection with al Qadiseyyah here. Longitude & latitude are 31.837214591023095, 35.47829073605342. Aaron Bushnell St is the street headed east from this intersection with Al Qadiseyyah.
The buildings and other features you can see in the photos match very well - the two large hangar-like buildings on the north side of the road, the palm-lined triangular area to the south, the road markings and median that appears on Al Qadiseyyah to the SE, and the fence, billboards, and grove of trees you can see to the WNW all match up very well.
Also, there is a google streetview of Al Quadiseyyah not too far from this intersection, and if you go there and look down Al Qadiseyyah to the SE that pretty much confirms it. You can see the white hangar-like building, the blue building to the east of it, the same median and light poles on Al Qadiseyyah SE of the intersection with Aaron Bushnell St as visible in the Facebook photos, and other details that exactly match.
In short, this looks to be the location.
posted by flug at 9:48 PM on August 8 [1 favorite]
The buildings and other features you can see in the photos match very well - the two large hangar-like buildings on the north side of the road, the palm-lined triangular area to the south, the road markings and median that appears on Al Qadiseyyah to the SE, and the fence, billboards, and grove of trees you can see to the WNW all match up very well.
Also, there is a google streetview of Al Quadiseyyah not too far from this intersection, and if you go there and look down Al Qadiseyyah to the SE that pretty much confirms it. You can see the white hangar-like building, the blue building to the east of it, the same median and light poles on Al Qadiseyyah SE of the intersection with Aaron Bushnell St as visible in the Facebook photos, and other details that exactly match.
In short, this looks to be the location.
posted by flug at 9:48 PM on August 8 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Update: thank you both, a friend of Aaron's was able to visit this street a few days ago with the help of this information.
posted by wicked_sassy at 11:39 AM on August 21
posted by wicked_sassy at 11:39 AM on August 21
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"As part of Jericho 10,000 Program, on October 11th, 2010, a ceremony was held at the future site of Jericho Agro-Industrial Park (JAIP) with attendance of Prime Minister Dr. Salam Fayyad, for the inauguration of the rehabilitation of part of Mahmoud Darwish Street (1.8 km) and for the ground-breaking of JAIP land reclamation." (Representative Office of Japan to the PNA press release)
posted by Iris Gambol at 2:52 PM on August 7 [3 favorites]