Jessica Buxbaum is a Jerusalem-based journalist covering Palestine and the Israeli occupation.
The Umm Haroun neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah is threatened.
A bureaucracy designed to serve as a grand land theft
A new segregated highway will annex part of the occupied West Bank and sever Palestinian access to this area.
Small peripheral villages, left in limbo for decades, now face all-out expulsion.
Israeli security forces closed six UNRWA-run schools in East Jerusalem, implementing legislation passed last year that bans the organization’s operations.
Not just a road, the newly approved highway extension has dire geostrategic consequences for Palestinians.
In 2024, violent attacks by religious Jews against Christians increased, especially in Jerusalem.
Another family in Sheikh Jarrah is in grave peril.
What explains the latest acceleration of settlement activity in East Jerusalem?