Health Care

Feature Story Behind the Military Checkpoint: Shu‘fat Camp Faces Intensifying Raids, Shrinking Services, and Growing Fear

Israel is making Shu‘fat refugee camp unlivable.

Bio Zainab Ibrahim al-Muhib

The first Palestinian woman to receive a medical degree and practice medicine

Case Study Israel’s NII Investigators Use “Gotcha” Tricks to Deny Disability Benefits to a Woman with MS

How Israeli National Insurance bureaucrats treat their neediest residents with heartless contempt

Case Study Samer, a Palestinian Jerusalemite Worker Applying for Disability Benefits, Faces a Conundrum

Should Samer protect his health and ability to work in the future, or feed his family now?

Case Study An Empty Closet Costs a Bride Her Right to Remain in the City of Her Birth

How Israel’s National Insurance inspectors glibly destroy lives without a second thought

Case Study Israel Denies Health-Care Coverage for a Palestinian Jerusalemite Baby Because He Was Born Abroad

For Palestinian Jerusalemites, parenting means facing a bureaucracy that is not invested in their child’s well-being.

Case Study A Palestinian Child Born in Jerusalem Is Not Automatically Recognized as a Resident

The bureaucratic maze that parents with mixed IDs face once a child is born

Case Study Israel Revokes Health Insurance from Ailing Muslim Couple for Defending al-Aqsa Mosque

An elderly couple from Jerusalem lost their life-saving state benefits for their work as murabitun defending al-Aqsa from settler incursions.

Roundtable East Jerusalem after 59 Years of Israeli Military, Administrative, and Legal Occupation: A Roundtable

A diverse group of Jerusalemites reflect on the implications of 59 years of Israeli occupation for their lives and for the future of their city.