Forcible Home Expulsions

Feature Story Jerusalem Court Sides with Settlers, Ruling to Displace 66 Palestinians from Batn al-Hawa, Silwan

A long-awaited verdict brings a feared but not surprising outcome.

Feature Story Settlers Fail at Brazen Attempt to Seize Historic Khalidi Home

Khalidi family wins rare court decision against settlers, but what does it portend?

Feature Story Supreme Court Rules to Expel a Palestinian Family in Silwan from Property It Bought in 1966

The Shehadeh family in Silwan has been fighting an Israeli Supreme Court eviction order, and the outcome affects dozens of families.

Screenshot of a film about the Palestinians of Sheikh Jarrah
Video Sheikh Jarrah

Views from Sheikh Jarrah

Interview Advocate Hosni Abu Hussein: “We Prevented the Establishment of a Jewish Settlement in Sheikh Jarrah”

We speak with one of the lawyers for three Sheikh Jarrah families whose expulsion cases were just overturned.

Feature Story Supreme Court Overturns Expulsion Orders for Three Sheikh Jarrah Families in Kerem al-Juni

Three more Sheikh Jarrah families get a reprieve and a modicum of hope. 

Feature Story Israeli Courts Order More than 50 Palestinians Expelled from Homes in Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah

Israeli Supreme Court orders expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.

Feature Story Israel Takes Final Steps to Large-Scale Land Confiscation and Forced Displacement of Bedouin

Three Bedouin communities face one more effort to displace them as Israel confiscates Palestinian land.

Feature Story Israeli Government Pumping Millions into Rebranding the Holy Basin, Erasing Palestinian Heritage

Israel is spending millions on a Judeo-centric “Jerusalem Heritage” program for the Holy Basin.