Palestinian Forces Conduct Rare Operation in Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Neighborhood

Meanwhile, the nonprofit organization Ir Amim sent a letter to Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon this morning, in which they detailed the urgent issues in Kafr Aqab. Oshrat Maimon, director of policy advocacy at the organization, warned that the food baskets the city has been providing to residents only arrived to 300 families, while there are 800 families in need. She also said that the state of sanitation in the neighborhood has deteriorated after the city furloughed sanitation workers at the same time that household trash production has increased due to home isolation.

Maimon added that residents are suffering from serious issues with their water supply and that volunteers are lacking protective gear and disinfectant. “The organization of residents in Kafr Aqab has been working over the past few weeks to answer these different needs. However, it is clear that this does not relieve the municipality and the Israeli authorities of their obligation to work to provide services and answer the basic existential needs of East Jerusalem in general and these neighborhoods in particular,” Maimon wrote to Leon.