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PHOTOS: A day of civil disobedience in Shuafat Refugee Camp
Days into a near-total lockdown imposed by Israel, Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem camp staged a mass strike and protest, only to be attacked by security forces.
By
Oren Ziv
October 12, 2022
‘They tossed us out like garbage’: The Palestinians who lost their Jerusalem homes
Israel demolished a record number of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem in 2020. Behind each one is a family that lost everything, with many unable to rebuild their lives.
By
Yuval Abraham
April 29, 2021
Abandoned by Israel, Jerusalem’s refugee camp is left to fight COVID-19 alone
With no tests, medical supplies, or isolation zones, the residents of Shuafat Refugee Camp are mobilizing to ensure they stay safe in the case of an outbreak.
By
Yuval Abraham
April 12, 2020
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We told ourselves we weren’t settlers. We were something different
In the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev, we didn’t think of ourselves as settlers, despite the fact that we lived beyond the Green Line and our neighbors were Palestinian. By Ofer Matan The first Arab who stepped into our home was Sabah. The first time we met, Sabah washed his hands in our kitchen sink…
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October 1, 2018
Israeli forces shoot 11-year-old Palestinian in head with rubber bullet
Not a single Israeli outlet covered the incident. The Israeli army shot an 11-year-old Palestinian boy in the head with a rubber bullet Monday night during a raid on Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the child was evacuated in a moderate condition to Israel’s Hadassah Medical Center in…
By
Edo Konrad
October 4, 2017
Demographic hysteria leaves Jerusalemites by the wayside
For 50 years, the Israeli government has treated Jerusalem as a national symbol instead of as a city. Its residents, both Palestinians and Jews, are paying the price. By Efrat Cohen-Bar As far back as the 1970s, the Israeli government set a goal to maintain a Jewish majority of at least 70 percent in its…
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August 3, 2017
High Court: Israel won’t demolish homes of Palestinian teen’s killers
Court rejects petition filed by family of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, claiming too much time passed since his murder and the filing of the petition. By +972 Magazine Staff Israel’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled that the families of three Israelis who were convicted of kidnapping and murdering Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old Palestinian who was…
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July 5, 2017
The impossible choice faced by East Jerusalem Palestinians
Palestinians in East Jerusalem live in an ongoing state of limbo: either stay where they are and risk having any additions they make to their homes demolished, or move away and lose their residency status. By Suleiman Maswadeh It was a day I’ll never forget. I was 14, and my father invited me to “visit…
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April 19, 2017
The cops at the checkpoint always remind me which side I’m on
Until I learned Hebrew, I saw Jews as frightening, scary, armed people who expelled us from our land in 1967, now working on finishing us off. Does that surprise you? By Suleiman Maswadeh My name is Suleiman, I am 22 years old and I was born in Jerusalem’s Old City. Despite the fact that it…
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February 13, 2017
How police killed a Palestinian man, tried to blame his cousin
A Jerusalem court rejects police attempt to place the blame for their own bullets elsewhere, but it’s not the first time they’ve tried — or succeeded at doing so. By John Brown* On the night between Sunday and Monday of last week, Israeli Border Police officers shot and killed Mustafa Nimer, a resident of Ramat Gan,…
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September 9, 2016
This is how many Israeli cops it takes to demolish a Palestinian home
Around 1,200 members of the Israeli security forces entered Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on Wednesday morning to oversee the demolition of the home of Ibrahim al-Akri, who killed two Israelis in Jerusalem last year. Approximately 1,200 members of the Israeli security forces entered Shuafat refugee Camp in East Jerusalem Wednesday morning to demolish the…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
December 2, 2015
Verdict in Abu Khdeir murder delayed by mental health claims
The two minors are convicted of kidnapping and murdering 16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir in East Jerusalem last year. Despite the judges’ assessment of guilt, however, no verdict is issued against the main suspect. The reason? A last-minute mental health assessment — in English. A panel of Jerusalem District Court judges on Monday issued a verdict…
By
Natasha Roth-Rowland
November 30, 2015
Netanyahu’s transfer plan: Turning dispossession into tradition
Netanyahu recently proposed that Israel revoke the residency status of tens of thousands of Palestinians in East Jerusalem who live beyond the wall. This appalling idea will merely continue what is already in motion: years of ‘quiet transfer.’ By Hagai El-Ad The latest proposed experiment to emerge from the Prime Minister’s Office – revoking the…
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November 1, 2015
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