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A Palestinian Jerusalemite takes stock of Israel’s latest clampdown on the West Bank.
With each passing day, Jerusalem is getting harder to reach for Palestinians outside the city.
The black hole of blacklisting: How Palestinians with PA IDs get wholly banned from Jerusalem with one click on the keyboard
Bit by bit, Israel is attempting to alter the facts on the ground at Bab al-Rahma.
What is happening at al-Aqsa Mosque under cover of war?
Health impacts of living “on the frontier”
She saw a need—inadequate emergency services for Palestinians—and in addressing it found her mission in life.
The right to medical treatment and even to relieve oneself are compromised by Israeli checkpoints, especially when extended closures are enforced.
An eighth grader recounts his week in an Israeli prison
Psychological pressures for Jerusalem’s Palestinians are intense, but those who seek treatment can be helped.
One of Palestine’s foremost visual artists, sculptors, and calligraphers who also the restored al-Aqsa Mosque’s precious Islamic art after an arson
Palestine’s first agricultural school was abloom with promise and potential.
A legal expert and statesman, developer, reformer, and critical thinker
President Trump wants to grab Gaza and develop it—without Palestinians. Jerusalemites respond.
Israel closes a loophole that allowed a little Palestinian development in East Jerusalem for a short while.
With each passing day, Jerusalem is getting harder to reach for Palestinians outside the city.
Bit by bit, Israel is attempting to alter the facts on the ground at Bab al-Rahma.
Muslim tourists dream of praying at al-Aqsa Mosque, but upon arrival, they are discovering that some prayer times are off limits under Israel’s rules.
How Israel’s permanent-resident status constrains and contains Palestinians’ lives in Jerusalem, where the majority have been forced to hold this status.
Palestinian Jerusalemites face multiple economic stresses.
Israel’s ban on UNRWA is due to take effect in a week. Palestinian refugees say impact will be catastrophic.
A new assault on the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah
Before 1948, Jerusalem was not split between an “East” and a “West.” Rather, a cosmopolitan, multiethnic New City grew organically out of the Old City.
A conversation with Adalah’s legal director, Suhad Bishara, about Israel’s plan to relegate the Salah al-Din Street commercial district to irrelevance
From 1967 to 1993, successive Israeli governments laid the foundations for an expanding settlement enterprise to Judaize Jerusalem and its surroundings.
Israel’s settlements in and around Jerusalem take the shape of three rings that contribute to Judaizing the city and fragmenting its Palestinian communities.
An interactive map of Israel’s “Jerusalem and Her Daughters” plan
Where is Jerusalem? The answer is a lot more complex and unclear than you might think.
Opening minds and spaces for creativity to take seed and grow
How the New City came to an abrupt and violent end
Twenty years on, Israel’s Separation Wall has wholly reconfigured the geopolitical fabric of Jerusalem and its hinterland, shattering Palestinian communities, families, and lives.
Matthew Teller’s biography of Jerusalem’s Old City offers history as well as the lived experience of today’s Palestinian residents. A book review.
Israel is ramping up the settlement of land title (SOLT) in East Jerusalem, dispossessing Palestinians and Judaizing the city.
Israel’s new right-wing governing coalition is accelerating settlement construction in and widely around East Jerusalem, expediting its Judaization.