Multiple team members from Jerusalem Story
The Status Quo agreement on Jerusalem’s holy sites, enacted in the Ottoman era, seeks to prevent conflict between religious groups. Increasingly, it is being violated.
A Palestinian media office that helped the PA extend its radio and TV broadcasting into East Jerusalem is shuttered by Israel.
Home demolitions take place in Palestinian neighborhoods across the city; Jabal Mukkabir is targeted and its residents take to the streets.
Christians throng the streets for a tree-lighting ceremony in the area of the New Gate in the Old City.
Exuberant celebration is added on the list of forbidden acts for Palestinian Jerusalemites under Israeli occupation.
Children find joy, purpose, and belonging in scouting in al-Bustan, Silwan.
From 1967 to 1993, successive Israeli governments laid the foundations for an expanding settlement enterprise to Judaize Jerusalem and its surroundings.
“The idea is to encourage non-Jews to relocate outside the borders of our country.”