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Land and Space
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Access, Mobility, and Fragmentation
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Status, Voice, and Governance
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Home, Family, Mind, and Soul
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Community Capacity
A quick overview of the “total closure day” and how it operates within the larger closure regime.
Closure is not only imposed on Palestinian access to the city of Jerusalem as a whole; it is also imposed on Palestinian access to their own neighborhoods—in this case, Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.
Punctuality is required for teachers. For one Jerusalem teacher living behind the checkpoint, a drastic life change was the only solution.
Jerusalem International Airport, once a gateway for an open region to the world, offers a study in sharp contrasts to the area’s present closure regime.
An unannounced closure leaves a Jerusalemite native stranded at Qalandiya checkpoint, with no way home.
Closure, a “temporary” measure introduced in 1991, is the system that controls Palestinians’ movement and blocks millions from accessing Jerusalem.