Displacement policy

OCHA: Israel demolished 31 Palestinian buildings in two weeks

Saturday-28-August-2021

The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) demolished or seized 31 Palestinian buildings in the West Bank during the past two weeks due to lack of Israeli building permits.

Peace Now warns of JNF plan to displace Palestinians annex lands

Tuesday-10-August-2021

The activist group Peace Now has warned of an Israeli plan that would lead to the annexation of more Palestinian lands the expansion of settlements and the displacement of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.

IOA displaces 40 Jerusalemites after forcing them to raze homes

Tuesday-10-August-2021

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Monday displaced Jerusalemite families after forcing them to demolish their homes in Beit Hanina town north of the holy city.

Silwan families urge participation in Friday’s solidarity events

Thursday-1-July-2021

The families of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan have called on their compatriots in Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied territory (Israel) to observe the Friday khutba (sermon) and prayer and participate in the rally to be held tomorrow in al-Bustan neighborhood.

Settlers storm Sheikh Jarrah threaten to displace families

Wednesday-23-June-2021

A horde of extremist Jewish settlers on Tuesday stormed the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah under police escort and threatened three families with expulsion from their homes.

Israeli municipality summons several Jerusalemite homeowners

Monday-14-June-2021

Several Palestinian citizens from al-Bustan neighborhood in the east Jerusalem district of Silwan received summonses for questioning from the Israeli municipality in Occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.

Israeli gov’t refuses to give legal opinion on Sheikh Jarrah evictions

Monday-7-June-2021

Avichai Mendelblit the Israeli government’s attorney general on Monday informed the higher court of justice that he would avoid submitting any recommendation regarding the eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in a move that bodes ill for the local residents facing displacement.

IOF displaces 15-member Palestinian family south of al-Khalil

Monday-31-May-2021

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) dismantled on Monday four tents in south of al-Khalil and confiscated them causing the displacement of a family of 15 including children.

UN demands Israel to cancel forced evictions in east J’lem

Saturday-8-May-2021

The UN has urged Israel to call off any forced evictions in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem warning that its actions could amount to “war crimes.”

22 Palestinians injured others arrested in Sheikh Jarrah

Thursday-6-May-2021

At least 22 Palestinian citizens were injured and five others were arrested on Wednesday evening when Israeli police forces stormed Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Occupied Jerusalem and attacked protesters rallying in solidarity with the families threatened with displacement.