Israel uses the 1950 Absentees’ Property Law and several amendments to it to confiscate Palestinian property across East Jerusalem and give it to Jewish settlers.
An inventory of Palestinian villages in the Jerusalem area pre-1948 and their erasure and replacement
A prolific diarist offers a glimpse of Jerusalem’s multi-confessional social traditions in the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods.
Musrara, a formerly New City neighborhood founded by Palestinians, had a unique fate in 1948.
The neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has historically been the northern gateway to the Old City and a home to powerful Palestinian families and consulates.
A quick overview of the “total closure day” and how it operates within the larger closure regime.