Settlers

Feature Story Road 45, a New Israeli Settler-Only Road, Will Now Traverse Qalandiya, Further Dispossessing Palestinians

The network of settler-only roads around Ramallah and northern Jerusalem is expanding.

Interview Researcher Saher Ghazawi: Incremental Restrictive Measures Are a Way to Normalize a New Reality in the Old City

What does it mean that Israel is increasing its restrictive measures in the Old City?

A close-up of Muna El-Kurd in Sheikh Jarrah discussing forcible home expulsions of Palestinians in East Jerusalem
Video Muna El-Kurd: “You Are Stealing My House”

Muna El-Kurd and her father recount life under settler takeover in their Jerusalem hometown.

Feature Story Settler Groups Are Taking Over the Basha Family Building in the Old City

The Basha family is being forcibly expelled from their home in the Old City by settler groups backed by Israeli courts.

Feature Story Israeli Settlers Are Seizing Home after Home in Silwan

Palestinians in Silwan are losing home after home.

Three Palestinian children outside a partially demolished home in Silwan, East Jerusalem, 2017
Video Zuheir Rajabi Won’t Bow to Settlers’ Takeover of Batn al-Hawa

A Silwan resident refuses to leave his family home.

Feature Story Palestinians of Sheikh Jarrah Share Their Struggles amid Increasing Threats of Forcible Expulsion

A neighborhood in peril

Interview Israel’s Absentees’ Property Law and Its Amendments: Targeting the Absent and the Present at Once

A legal expert explains how one law does it all.

Feature Story Hate Crimes against Christians Spiking in Jerusalem

From stabbings to harassment, Israeli attackers are emboldened by the far-right government.