Impending Evictions and the Struggle to Live in East Jerusalem

June 19, 2025 | Published by grassrootsalquds

Foundation for Middle East Peace webinar. Fayrouz Sharqawi and Mohammed El-Kurd talk with Lara Friedman....

Record number of demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem in May: Israeli group

June 3, 2025 | Published by Middle East Monitor

Left-wing Israeli organisation Ir Amim revealed yesterday that a record number of Palestinian homes were demolished by Israeli occupation forces in East Jerusalem in May. In a statement the organisation, which specialises in Jerusalem affairs, rep...

Israel demolishes record number of Palestinian buildings in occupied East Jerusalem in May

June 2, 2025 | Published by Ir Amim data (via Anadolu Agency)

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...

Israel closes 6 UN schools for Palestinians in east Jerusalem

May 27, 2025 | Published by AP News

Israel permanently closed six U.N. schools in east Jerusalem on Thursday, forcing Palestinian students to leave early and throwing the education of more than 800 others into question....

Far-right Israelis confront Palestinians, other Israelis in chaotic Jerusalem march, witnesses say

May 26, 2025 | Published by Reuters

A large rally in Jerusalem marking Israel's capture of the city's east in the 1967 war descended into chaos on Monday as far-right Israeli Jews confronted and assaulted Palestinians, fellow Israelis and journalists, witnesses said. The annual "Flag ...

Pillar of Palestinian Education in Jerusalem, Al-Quds University Defies Israeli Pressure

May 25, 2025 | Published by Jerusalem Story

Al-Quds University is the largest Palestinian institution and the only Palestinian university operating in Jerusalem, despite ongoing Israeli pressure to leave the city. Its students face considerable employment and transportation challenges but stil...

Humanitarian Situation Update #291: Jerusalem & West Bank

May 21, 2025 | Published by OCHA

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....

Israel Increasing Efforts to Expel Jerusalem’s Palestinian Villages

May 20, 2025 | Published by Jerusalem Story

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...

UNRWA Commissioner-General on East Jerusalem: An assault on children. An assault on education

May 8, 2025 | Published by UNRWA

"An assault on children. An assault on education. A sad day in occupied East Jerusalem." This morning, heavily armed Israeli Forces entered three UNRWA schools in Shu’fat Camp in occupied East Jerusalem, forcing 550+ girls and boys who were in cla...

PM approves work on Western Wall section in Muslim quarter of Old City, informs Jordan — report

May 5, 2025 | Published by Times of Israel

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’s Security Cabinet Approves Extension of Apartheid Road East of Jerusalem

May 2, 2025 | Published by Jerusalem Story

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...

PNGO and PHROC support Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global’s (GPFG) continued divestment from companies involved in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise

May 1, 2025 | Published by Al Haq Organization

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...