Defying Israel's eviction orders in East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem 15 September 2017
The Shamasneh family refused to leave their home of more than 50 years. Read more about Defying Israel's eviction orders in East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem 15 September 2017
The Shamasneh family refused to leave their home of more than 50 years. Read more about Defying Israel's eviction orders in East Jerusalem
East Jerusalem 2 November 2015
Doctors believe Israel aims to scare them from treating injured Palestinians. Read more about Israel raids hospital, blocks medical care in Jerusalem
East Jerusalem 15 February 2012
Israeli bulldozers demolished the only community center and refuge for Palestinian children in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. Read more about Israeli forces destroy "the only place for children in Silwan"
East Jerusalem 28 December 2011
An important precedent was recently set that could challenge the entrenched system of impunity for Israeli interrogators who torture and abuse Palestinian detainees. Read more about Israel's impunity challenged by torture victim in Jerusalem
Silwan, East Jerusalem 5 April 2010
While the world’s eyes are riveted to the diplomatic arguments over Israel’s settlement facts on the ground, Israel is covertly tightening its grip on Wadi Hilweh and al-Bustan neighborhoods in Silwan in a literally underground fashion. Danny Felsteiner writes from occupied East Jerusalem. Read more about Under the beautiful valley
East Jerusalem 12 August 2009
We knew that the threat of eviction against the Hanoun family in occupied East Jerusalem was imminent ever since the first order of this year was served on 19 February. The family had already been kicked out of their home once, in 2002, but it was still hard to imagine that the day would ever come. Jody McIntyre writes from occupied East Jerusalem. Read more about Evicted Jerusalem family refuses to give up
East Jerusalem 9 July 2009
Fawzieh al-Kurd, 57, clad in black, spends her days on a promontory overlooking Tomb of Simon the Righteous in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Enduring the cold of winter and the summer’s blazing sun, she relates her family’s tragic story to visitors from around the world with dignity and resolve. Marcey Gayer writes from occupied East Jerusalem. Read more about Sheikh Jarrah residents refuse to be displaced
East Jerusalem 21 April 2009
In the Sadiyya neighborhood inside the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City is the Jaber family home. There, three members of the Jaber family, as well as the Karaki family, have lived with their parents, and later spouses and children, since the 1930s. Six years ago Israeli police came to the house and told Nasser Jaber that his house no longer belonged to his family. Marcy Newman writes from occupied Jerusalem. Read more about Ethnic cleansing, one home at a time
East Jerusalem 7 April 2009
“We are like the roots of a tree. The Israelis may cut us in places, but we will never die. We will not be transplanted from Jerusalem. I will not leave this house,” Maher Hanun tells a crowded room of Palestinian community members supported by Israeli and international solidarity activists. Jeff Pickert writes from occupied East Jerusalem. Read more about Sheikh Jarrah residents organize in the face of mass house evictions
East Jerusalem 10 March 2009
I recently visited the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan, one of the many slated for demolition any day now. The roads into the valley where al-Bustan lies were all closed to Palestinian cars with border police blocking off almost every street. The Electronic Intifada contributor Dr. Marcy Newman writes from occupied East Jerusalem. Read more about Ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem