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58 Years of Occupation, The Two-Year War in Gaza  The two years since October 7 have been marked by major escalations in the scope and severity of human rights violations and breaches of international law in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East…

For decades, state-backed settler groups have spearheaded efforts to take control of large parts of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Situated just north of the Old City and adjacent to West Jerusalem, this Palestinian neighborhood’s strategic location makes it a prime target for settler activities and measures aimed at displacing its…

As the devastating destruction and loss of life in Gaza persists, the 2024-2025 school year brings mounting challenges for Palestinian educators and students in East Jerusalem. Over the past year, the Israeli Knesset has advanced legislation that threatens to further erode East Jerusalem’s already fragile education system—including a bill to…

For the second year in a row, twenty-one Israeli organizations have come together to produce a joint report on “The State of the Occupation.” This report surveys human rights developments in the occupied Palestinian territory over the past year, using the diverse tools and…

Following the murderous attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a protracted war in Gaza, at the cost of extensive harm to the civilian population, a humanitarian disaster, and the massive destruction of infrastructure. The organizations partnering in writing this report – Ir Amim, the Association for…

The year 2023 concluded at the peak of warfare and amid deep crisis in both Israeli and Palestinian societies. The October 7 massacre; 136 Israeli hostages; a bloody war with tens of thousands killed and injured; tremendous destruction in Gaza; hundreds of thousands of people displaced; an acute economic crisis…

For years, Ir Amim has been reporting on the ‘disappeared’ or ‘missing’ students of East Jerusalem—school-aged children whose educational frameworks are unknown to the municipality. This year, in lead up to the publication of our annual report on education in East Jerusalem, we were informed that the…

Among the most concerning developments throughout 2022 were uncovering the implementation of land settlement of title procedures. The settlement of title process was incorporated into the 2018 “Government Decision 3790 – For Socioeconomic Investment in East Jerusalem”, and was perceived with great suspicion by residents and activists in East Jerusalem…

Ir Amim proudly presents the illustrated 2021 Annual Report. Click here to view the report The report includes:   – Discrimination in planning and building policies – Settlement expansion – Settlement activity within Palestinian neighborhoods – Measures of displacement against Palestinian communities – The…

In May 2018, Decision 3790 for the Reduction of Socio-economic Gaps and Economic Development in East Jerusalem, was adopted by the government. The budget allocated for the Decision stood at approximately NIS 2.2 billion (approx. USD630 million) over the course of five years. The Decision included six main spheres of…

The discrimination against Palestinian residents of Jerusalem in the realms of planning and building is a well-known fact reflected in the statistics and analyses which have been produced and published extensively in the past.  However, new decisions approved over the past few years will only exacerbate this issue. This report will expound…

In 2020, 144 housing units along with 72 non-residential structures (i.e stores, warehouses, stables, etc.), comprising a total of 216 structures were demolished in East Jerusalem.  This denotes a troubling continuation of the upward trend in the number of residential units demolished annually as a result of Amendment 116 of…

Government Decision 3790 for “Reduction of Socio-Economic Gaps and Economic Development in East Jerusalem,” from May 13, 2018, provides for socio-economic investment in East Jerusalem with a budget of approximately 2.1 billion NIS over the course of five years. The Decision includes six main areas of activity – primary, secondary…

Access PDF Here: The State of Education in East Jerusalem 2020: Discrimination Against the Background of Covid19   According to the data, the profound disparities in East Jerusalem, including in the area of education, which exist under normal circumstances, were only exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. As opposed to…

Ir Amim’s ongoing joint project with WAC-Ma’an to monitor the implementation of Government Decision 3790.

2019 marks the second to highest record of home demolitions in East Jerusalem in the last two decades. 104 housing units were demolished in 2019, constituting a 44% increase from 2018 and an overall deviation from the decline in the trend over the past few years. Due to the municipality’s…

On June 2, 2019, the State Comptroller published a special report on the topic of Jerusalem, which found that profound gaps continue to persist in the scope and quality of educational (and welfare) services provided to the population of East Jerusalem. Since 2001 – nearly two decades ago – the…

THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN EAST JERUSALEM: BUDGETARY DISCRIMINATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY August 2018 In recent years, the education system in East Jerusalem has been faced, on one hand, with an ever-increasing classroom shortage and on the other, with a host of government-imposed efforts to force the Israeli curriculum…

In recent years, the school system in East Jerusalem has been coping with a continued shortage of classrooms as well as the highest dropout rates recorded in data collected by Israel; while at the same time confronting the considerable stress being exerted, mainly by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs, to impose the Israeli curriculum on the Palestinian national community in the city. The combination of neglected infrastructure and elaborate political attempts to influence content has left the school system in East Jerusalem in dire straits. Along with mounting pressure from the Israeli government, the disparities reviewed in this report have serious ramifications for tens of thousands of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem.

This report examines three plans in East Jerusalem that reflect the efforts made by Palestinian residents to eventually build legally and eliminate the threat of demolition. Our examination of the obstacle course faced by these plans shows that the Israeli authorities do everything within their power to delay the process and ultimately thwart any detailed plan of significant scale, effectively preventing lawful construction by Palestinians.