On Friday, the Israel Police prevented thousands of Christian believers from reaching Mount Tabor to mark the Feast of the Transfiguration..

Walid Abu Thaya, 69-years-old, is not the typical Palestinian candidate for local elections - an Israeli citizen born within the Green Line. Thaya, however, is not afraid to break the age-old taboo of taking on Israeli politics, even if most East Jerusalemites see city hall as 'the enemy'.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has refused to approve funds for a program to encourage higher education, claiming university study ‘radicalizes’ Palestinians.

The city’s dwindling Christian community is facing a spike in hate crimes under the far-right government, with possible ramifications for Israel’s ties abroad.

State Department says move ‘exacerbates tensions, undercuts efforts to advance two-state solution after family loses home they’ve had since 1950s.

Palestinian diplomats warned that Israel continues to implement its expansion plan into Palestinian land and deepen its annexation of Jerusalem.

The Ghaith family, living in Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter since 1945, has been fighting forced eviction from their home for four decades. Israeli settler organizations persist in their efforts to displace them and seize their home for Jewish settlement. The recent court ruling favored the settler group and left the family unprotected.

A suspension bridge, a half-mile zip line, and plans for a cable car traversing the Old City are turning Jerusalem into a Jewish Biblical theme park at the expense of its Palestinian residents and multi-cultural history.

The Flag March represents the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the imposition of Israeli colonial dominance over Jerusalem. It is part of the Zionist forever war on Jerusalem.

The plan, which proposed a 2 billion shekel investment in Palestinian infrastructure, education and employment, was scrapped in the final hour due to opposition from Israel's Finance Ministry – and far-right Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

The notion of "We are here", which the "Flag March" seeks to express, appears in reality to be evidence of the Israeli incapacity in Jerusalem. This march, coming 56 years after the Occupation of East Jerusalem, remains contingent on imposing extraordinary coercive measures that escalate, year after year, to paralyse daily life in the city. The aim of this is simply to distract the Palestinian citizens from the scene.

Zionist leaders harbored a completely different vision for the city, which they eventually succeeded in implementing.

Co-sponsored by far-right lawmaker Simcha Rothman, the bill would ban funding for East Jerusalem schools teaching the official Palestinian curriculum, arguing that it includes ‘incitement to terrorism’.

Independence Day celebrations took place this year in the shadow of the threat of the government’s planned judicial shakeup and deep concern for the future of human and civil rights in Israel. This concern is especially great with regard to women’s rights. The story of Muna (not her real name), a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, exemplifies the way women suffer in places where human rights are no longer an absolute value. Thousands of other women in East Jerusalem are in a similar situation.

Residents of Hura, the Bedouin town where Mohammed Alasibi lived, are certain police killed him wrongfully. Alasibi was about to graduate from medical school when he was shot dead after Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem.

Israeli force clear Palestinian worshippers and blame 'rioters' while paving way for settler incursions. Palestinians fear that restrictions on when they can enter and the opening of the site to settlers is laying the groundwork for the mosque to be divided between Muslims and Jews, similar to how the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron was divided in the 1990s.

Palestinian witnesses describe how the beatings and violence Israeli forces meted out on worshippers was far worse than the online footage shows.

Some 2,000 housing units in Abu Dis, Umm Tuba and Ras-al-Amoud, as well as a proposal for a new neighborhood, are being advanced by the city together with right-wing groups.

The evictions, which have put hundreds of Palestinians at risk of dispossession, could come right ahead of Ramadan, the diplomats warned.

In January 2023, as it does every year, HaMoked submitted to the Ministry of Interior an application under the Freedom of Information Law for information on revocations of permanent residency status of East Jerusalem Palestinians for the year 2022. The application was sent as part of HaMoked's ongoing advocacy against Israel's “quiet deportation” of East Jerusalem Palestinians, implemented since late 1995. The Ministry of Interior response received on March 9, 2023, indicates that in the year 2022, Israel revoked the residency of 81 East Jerusalem Palestinians, including 42 women and one minor. Of the total, 63 people were outside of Israel/East Jerusalem on the date of the revocation. This is a significant rise compared to the previous year, in which 26 people were deprived of their status.

The 26-year-old speaks to us about her duties, discrimination and the challenges posed by the Israeli occupation.

Concerns are building that Israel's new government will revive controversial plans to take over Palestinian- and church-owned land on the Mount of Olives.

Kayed Alrajabi didn’t expect that winter would bring destruction to his small home in Jerusalem. Heavy rains led to the collapse of a part of the house’s roof and the injury of one of his children. In his house, in the Batn Alhawa neighborhood, Alrajabi, a few days ago, was surprised by the collapse of a part of the roof during heavy rains, which caused his child to injure his leg. Eight people live in the house, including his elderly mother.

Events in Jerusalem over the past few days show that Ben Gvir’s declared war on East Jerusalem has already begun, as Israeli authorities crack down on Palestinians across the city.

Dozens of Palestinians protested far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir’s order to demolish homes in the neighborhood under the claim that they were built illegally as part of his policy of collective punishment.

Dozens of Palestinians protested far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir’s order to demolish homes in the neighborhood under the claim that they were built illegally as part of his policy of collective punishment.

The operation that took place in Beit Hanina in Occupied Jerusalem continues to stir fear among Occupation soldiers, who worry that similar operations could be carried out by Palestinian youth. The Occupation claims it has already thwarted 29 possible attacks and there are more threats of individual armed attacks. Meanwhile, security officials warn that we may be facing the beginning of a third Palestinian Intifada.

The submission to the Israeli planning authorities, the US Ambassador to Israel and Secretary of State, by Adalah coincides with the visit of US Secretary of State Blinken to Israel and the PA. Blinken has not responded to demands made by heirs to the land, some of which are US citizens, to cancel the plan.

The Secretary-General strongly condemns today’s terrorist attack by a Palestinian perpetrator outside a synagogue in Jerusalem, which claimed the lives of at least seven Israelis and injured several others. The Secretary-General extends his heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and wishes a prompt recovery to those injured...

Concerns are building that Israel's new government will revive controversial plans to take over Palestinian- and church-owned land on the Mount of Olives.

On December 27, 2022, the Elad settlers of Silwan accompanied by a heavily armed detail of Israeli police, took over a large plot of land immediately adjacent to the Pool of Siloam in Silwan (from which the name Silwan derives). The settler takeover is not exclusively a settler initiative. In a press release touting the commencement of excavations on the site, this is being presented as a joint venture between the Elad settlers, the Israel National Parks Authority (INPA), and the Antiquities Authority (IAA). For all those needing proof, this is further evidence that in Silwan, the settlers and the Government of Israel are one of the same. + The land in question has been owned by the Greek Orthodox Church and leased to a Palestinian family since the 1930s. A family member was arrested last night (26 December) in a pre-emptive arrest, and three more were detained this morning.

Israel is rapidly accelerating the planning of the Har Gilo West settlement, located on geopolitically very sensitive – land on Jerusalem’s southern border. First, on September 11, the Israeli High Planning Council approved a plan to widen a road leading to the Har Gilo settlement, a road that is integral to the planning of the new Har Gilo West settlement.

Israel's permit regime can make it near-impossible for Palestinians in the West Bank to enter Jerusalem. But after waiting my entire life, I finally made it.

Human Rights Council. Fiftieth session, 13 June–8 July 2022, Agenda item 2. Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General. In this report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-30/1, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel describes the activities that it has carried out to date and how it plans to implement its mandate, given its ongoing nature.