Jerusalem
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| A "Unified Jerusalem"? Reality gives a different picture | | Ir Amim - Jerusalem Day, the day marking the 53rd anniversary of the
Israeli occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, is
celebrated by some as marking the “reunification” of Jerusalem, the
everyday reality in the city is starkly different. At our event,
Aviv Tatarsky, Ir Amim Senior Field Researcher, explained the
ramifications on-the-ground of the Trump annexation plans of the
Jerusalem area, while Mahmoud Mouna, (a Palestinian East
Jerusalemite active in the cultural scene, shared about the
collective and individual Palestinian experiences of the current
situation in East Jerusalem and the fears and hopes they have for
the future. [ak] | 26/5/2020 |
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| VIDEO: Settlers Hold Parade While Soldiers Assault Palestinians in Jersualem | | Ali Salam - IMEMCnews - "Israeli security forces, on Friday, blocked several
streets in occupied Jerusalem as illegal Israeli settlers provocative March outside
Jaffa Gate, celebrated the so-called “reunification of Jerusalem as capital of
Israel”, Quds News reported" [ry] | 25/5/2020 |
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| Ahead of Jerusalem Day, report of Israeli landgrab, abuse and violence in the neighborhood of al-‘Esawiyah | | Amit Gilutz - B`Tselem - As Jerusalem Day nears, B`Tselem is
publishing a new report about the Israeli policy that has shaped the
lives of al-’Esawiyah’s 22,000 Palestinian residents, making it one
of the city’s poorest and most overcrowded neighborhoods. The
report, This is Jerusalem: Violence and Dispossession in al-
‘Esawiyah, reviews the key features of this policy – systemic
landgrab and deliberate lack of planning:
Since 1967, Israel has overtaken about 90% of al-’Esawiyah’s land,
which once spanned almost 2,500 acres.
The landgrab is a key reason for the neighborhood’s poverty, as
residents are denied the opportunity to benefit from their land.
The stolen land serves the Jewish public.
Al-’Esawiyah residents now have less than 250 acres, which are
mostly built up and hemmed in by Israeli institutions (primarily the
Hebrew University and Hadassah Mt. Scopus Medical Center) and Jewish
neighborhoods.
The Jerusalem Municipality has yet to draw up a proper outline plan
that allows legal residential construction and reflects residents’
needs, including infrastructure development and public buildings.
Instead, the only plan approved for the neighborhood, in 1991, was
mostly designed to limit construction.[ak] | 19/5/2020 |
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| Dawn of a New Era? Jerusalem and Its Palestinian Residents Joining Forces to Battle Coronavirus | | Nir Hasson - Haaretz - Dr. Hagai Agmon-Snir, the director general of
the Jerusalem Inter-Cultural Center, which assists in the building of
relationships between the authorities and Palestinian civil society,
said that “The advantage of the coronavirus crisis is that it’s not
linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and can be dealt while
disregarding political considerations. “We see a trend in which the
old orientalist concept, by which East Jerusalem is made up of
villages, clans, and hostile Palestinian organizations, is being
replaced by a new perspective – Jerusalem`s eastern part enables a
civil society to flourish, and is home to activists and
professionals, just like in the western part of the city," Agmon-Snir
said. He added that the "old reality hasn`t completely vanished," but
a civil society has been gradually forming in East Jerusalem. (rh) | 5/5/2020 |
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| Drawing New Lines: Israel’s Unilateral Policies to Reshape Jerusalem | | Yehudit Oppenheimer and Betty Herschman - Palestine Israel Journal -
Over the past several years, the government of Israel has intensified
its two-pronged Jerusalem strategy to consolidate control over East
Jerusalem while eroding the Palestinians’ hold on the city. Israel is
actively working to redraw the boundaries of Jerusalem through
legislation and political proposals to both territorially and
demographically reshape the city. And it is asserting its power at
the center of East Jerusalem by promoting an unprecedented number of
touristic settlement initiatives inside Palestinian neighborhoods,
evicting and uprooting Palestinian families, demolishing homes
(throughout East Jerusalem), and tolerating pressure from messianic
Temple movements to challenge the status quo on the Temple Mount/al-
Haram al Sharif (rh) | 5/5/2020 |
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| East Jerusalem scrambles to prevent COVID-19 outbreak before Ramadan | | Judith Sudilovsky - +972 - Israel had weeks to help prevent the spread of
coronavirus in East Jerusalem. Instead, it dragged its feet in helping Palestinian
hospitals, closed down testing sites, and blocked the PA from stepping in [ry] | 27/4/2020 |
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| East Jerusalem worries of healthcare collapse over coronavirus : With Israeli neglect and PA banned from operating, Palestinians in East Jerusalem battle coronavirus on their own. | | Mersiha Gadzo - Aljazeera - As the highly contagious coronavirus
continues to spread, Palestinian health officials in occupied East
Jerusalem are warning the medical system will "collapse" if an
outbreak occurs because of a shortage of resources and a lack of
qualified staff. Citing Israeli neglect of Palestinians living in the
holy city and with the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA)
banned from operating in the area, Palestinians in East Jerusalem say
they have been left to fend for themselves.(rh)
| 21/4/2020 |
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| First coronavirus death in East Jerusalem amid Israeli `neglect` | | Al Jazeera - Palestinian officials say Arab population of occupied East Jerusalem
overlooked by Israeli efforts to contain COVID-19 [ry] | 20/4/2020 |
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| Israel Shuts Palestinian Coronavirus Testing Clinic in East Jerusalem | | Nir Hasson - Haaretz - Until very recently, Israel neglected to act against the virus in East Jerusalem. Only after the PA filled the vacuum did Israel get a little bit started. But of course, clamping down on what Palestinians arranged for themselves could not even wait until the end of the Pesach Holiday. When doctors found out 40 confirmed cases in Silwan where overcrowded living conditions could lead to a rapid spread of the virus, a clinic was opened in a hall at one of the local mosques. The coronavirus tests were meant to be processed by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. But police arrived, questioned neighbors and arrested four activists who were involved in setting up the clinic. [bz]
The clinic was opened in a hall at one of the local mosques. It was closed on Tuesday night because to the end-of-Passover curfew, but police officers nonetheless arrived, questioned neighbors and arrested four activists who were involved in setting up the clinic.
[bz] | 16/4/2020 |
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| From Covid-19 to the ‘Deal of the Century’ — Palestine and international law | | Yaser Alashqar - Mondoweiss - As of April 5th, the occupied
Palestinian territories, Gaza and the West Bank including East
Jerusalem, have registered 228 cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) and
one death. While COVID-19 represents a difficult challenge to
advanced nations and their strong healthcare systems, it poses a more
complex and dangerous challenge to conflict zones and occupied
territories, such as Palestine. Decades of displacement,
dispossession, conflict, military occupation and blockade have
weakened existing medical services and systemically disregarded
Palestinian rights to life and health. (rh) | 14/4/2020 |
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| Abandoned by Israel, Jerusalem’s refugee camp is left to fight COVID-19 alone | | Yuval Abraham - +972 - With no tests, medical supplies, or isolation zones, the
residents of Shuafat Refugee Camp are mobilizing to ensure they stay safe in the
case of an outbreak [ry] | 13/4/2020 |
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| Coronavirus? Police, army and settlers continue with harassing Palestinians | | Michal Hai - This week in the Occupied Territories: March 29 - April
4, 2020. Israeli Police, Border Police and army persisted in their
systemic harassment of the Issawiya neighborhood of East Jerusalem
this week, in the midst of the worsening Corona-virus crisis:
placing checkpoints, firing sponge rounds and teargas, arresting
locals and fining them; Hooligans from Havat Maon outpost were busy
this week stealing from their Palestinian neighbors; Israeli
soldiers violently arrested a Palestinian youth picking Ka`ub (globe
thistle) near Palestinian Susya, even though it is no longer
prohibited; settlers from the West Bank hill-range outposts are
widening a path they have cleared around Rashash, inside a nature
reserve and firing zones, as well as founding a new outpost –
Israeli police and army called to the site responded by chasing away
Palestinian shepherds, and fining activists and NGO workers who are
permitted (by of the Israeli Ministry of Health regulations) on the
ground in order to document illegal works. [ak]
| 9/4/2020 |
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