Saleh Diab and his family are at risk of unlawful transfer from occupied East Jerusalem after the Israeli District Court rejected their appeal against eviction from their home in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in February 2025. These forced evict...
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...
Israel approves the construction of an extension of a segregated road that will greatly facilitate the lives of Israeli settlers living in the E1 area while preventing Palestinians from accessing a large area of the occupied Palestinian West Bank, in...
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...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) condemns the Jerusalem Municipality’s foreclosure order against the Armenian Patriarchate, calling it a violation of religious freedom and the historic Status Quo. WCC expresses solidarity with Christian communit...
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...
An Israeli settler group is attempting to take over Cow’s Garden, a key piece of land within Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter. Armenian community members, led by young advocate Djernazian, are defending the land through legal channels and raising awa...
The Separation Wall has drastically cut off Palestinian towns like al-‘Izariyya and Abu Dis from Jerusalem, affecting their social and economic fabric. These towns, once interconnected with Jerusalem, now face severe restrictions, including militar...
A Palestinian woman from Ramallah, was excited to start her new job in Jerusalem but faced complications with Israel's permit system. Despite obtaining a permit to enter Jerusalem, M was banned after accidentally failing to properly log her exit at t...
This Backgrounder examines Israel's settlement expansion in East Jerusalem, occupied since 1967, focusing on three strategic settlement rings. These settlements, along with the Separation Wall, checkpoints, and bypass roads, reshape the city’s geog...
