Sitting beneath a tree beside the rubble of his demolished home, Fakhri Abu Diab stared out over what remained of the neighborhood where he has spent his whole life. The 62-year-old Palestinian resident of al-Bustan, a densely packed warren of hom...
The European Union’s annual settlement report documents a record 35,370 housing units advanced through 56 plans in occupied East Jerusalem during 2025, nearly double the 2024 total. It identifies seven proposed new settlements and lists plans affec...
Ir Amim’s status report reviews construction and planning activity at Givat Hamatos, describing it as the first major new Israeli settlement built in East Jerusalem in more than two decades. It states that plans associated with the area total 7,310...
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...
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...
"The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred," edited by Rashid Khalidi and Salim Tamari, is a collection of essays exploring Jerusalem’s history, geography, and cultural significance. The book challenges conventional narratives, focu...
The Jerusalem Hotel, located near Damascus Gate in East Jerusalem, is a historic Ottoman-era building transformed into a boutique hotel by the Saadeh family. Originally a palace built in 1890, the hotel preserves its rich heritage with traditional ar...
Jerusalem's distinctive appearance, viewed from the Mount of Olives, is shaped by its use of limestone, which has been the city's primary building material since ancient times. Quarried from surrounding hills, this stone gives Jerusalem its golden hu...
The current reality of Jerusalem is one where various boundaries and frameworks have been imposed or suggested without consensus, leaving the city undefined in a way that all its inhabitants could agree upon. Both historical and contemporary versions...
The video discusses a **2021 report by 7amleh**, titled *“Intensification of Surveillance in East Jerusalem and Impact on Palestinian Residents’ Rights: Summer and Fall 2021.”* The report examines the rise of biometric and digital surveillance ...
