[This article is the fourth part of The Armenian Quarter Files, a series of investigations into a controversial land deal in occupied East Jerusalem]. On the morning of 28 December 2023, a group of masked men descended on the Armenian Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem, and started dismantling a fence surrounding the quarter’s parking lot in the Cows’ Garden area. Members of the local Armenian community had recently erected this barrier. For almost a year, they have been protesting a controversial land lease agreement between the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem and Xana Gardens Ltd, an Is…