While it was well-reported that Israel’s media censor publicly tightened its rules during the brief Israel-Iran War, an unofficial ban on Palestinians reporting in Jerusalem’s Old City is also taking hold, enforced by police threats and settler v...
The Judaization of Jerusalem is encroaching upon al-Haram al-Sharif, with no discernible offramp. Nearly every night since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, Israeli settlers have stormed the historical landmark known as Ribat al-Kur...
The village of Kfar Aqab in Jerusalem is located beyond the separation barrier in the city. Until the Gaza war, residents would leave for Jerusalem through the Qalandiya or Hizma checkpoints. An additional checkpoint, the Jaba checkpoint, was establi...
The Israeli army demolished 33 Palestinian structures in the occupied East Jerusalem last month, a record number this year, an Israeli rights group said on Monday. The demolished buildings included 16 residential units and 17 non-residential struc...
The number of Palestinian homes demolished by their owners in East Jerusalem for lacking Israeli-issued building permits has been on the rise. So far in 2025, 62 per cent of demolished structures in East Jerusalem were demolished by their owners....
Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem hit a new record in 2024, with 255 buildings razed that year. This year is already on track to surpass that figure as more structures have been demolished thus far in 2025 than during the sam...
With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approval, renovation and maintenance work has begun on the “Little Western Wall,” a section of the Western Wall located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Kan public broadcaster repo...
The Palestinian Network of NGOs (PNGO) and Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) comprising over 140 Palestinian civil society organisations across the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) wish to reiterate and clarify Palestinian ci...
Since 1967, more than 14,500 Palestinians from Jerusalem have had their residency status revoked by Israel. This practice amounts to forcible transfer, which is classified as a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and ...
On 26 January 2025, the Jerusalem Municipality distributed stop-work orders, which are essentially the initial stage of issuing demolition orders, for the mosque and all the houses in the Palestinian village of Khallet a-Nu’man. The municipality re...
The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media released its latest report titled “Digital Divide: Discrimination in Digital Infrastructure Against Palestinian Citizens in Israel,” authored by researcher Habeeb Makhoul. The report documents s...
On February 8th, six Palestinian civil society organizations held a briefing on the impact of collective punishment measures on Palestinian women in East Jerusalem. The session addressed Israeli practices like punitive residency revocations, house de...
