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East Jerusalem Hospitals

East Jerusalem hospitals that largely serve the Palestinian community in their neighborhoods of the city

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Jerusalem Story Team

Before 1948, Jerusalem was an Arab Muslim city. In that year, Israel occupied 84 percent of the city, which it ethnically cleansed, seized, and renamed as West Jerusalem, designating it as the capital of the newly emergent Jewish state. In the years between 1948 and 1967, when Israel occupied what remained (“East Jerusalem”), under Jordanian rule, the community built and established a number of hospitals. These hospitals became a pivotal hub of health care for the entire West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip. They survived the occupation and continued serving the community to this day.

To learn more, see East Jerusalem Hospitals Network: Resilient Palestinian Institutions Troubled by Economic Crisis and Silent War.

Of course there are also several major Israeli hospitals in Jerusalem, and these also serve Palestinians, but this graphic focuses on the hospitals that are largely run by Palestinians for Palestinians.