Why Palestinians in East Jerusalem are losing their homes | Start Here

The space for Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem is shrinking. It’s happening through a process of evictions and demolitions. Sandra Gathmann went to East Jerusalem for #AJStartHere to explain what’s happening and why.

Reports of shootings in East Jerusalem and the West Bank

 

There are reports of shootings in both East Jerusalem and the West Bank. For the latest DW spoke to journalist Sami Sockol in Jerusalem.

Can the ‘status-quo’ of Jerusalem’s Old City be preserved?

 

Israeli incursions increasingly challenge the longstanding agreement banning non-Muslim prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound.

Tens of thousands of ultranationalist Israelis have marched through occupied East Jerusalem, in what is being seen as the latest provocation against Palestinians.

Every year, far-right Jewish groups mark the illegal occupation of East Jerusalem by holding a “flag day” march.

Jerusalem: A Rock and a Hard Place

Jerusalemites of three faiths share their life stories and thoughts on the city's past, present and future.

"There's never been an Arab state here with the capital of Jerusalem," says Daniel Luria. "There's never been a Palestinian state here. This talk about Palestine, Palestine ... I've never heard of anything more absurd."

Luria is the executive director of Ateret Cohanim, a settler organisation working to create a Jewish majority in the city of Jerusalem. Raised in Australia, Luria says Israelis his only home, in spite of only having moved there 25 years ago. He is one of more than 850,000 people residing in Jerusalem.

After a peaceful period under Ottoman rule, where Islam, Christianity and Judaism coexisted in relative harmony, the decline of the empire and consequent victory of the British in Palestine during World War I set the stage for the eventual takeover of the city.

Israel-Palestine: The conflict and the coverage

We analyse the polarising coverage of the clashes in occupied East Jerusalem; plus, the false binaries in the media.


Over the past few weeks, violent clashes have erupted in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, with youths taking to the streets to protest against an occupation that has lasted almost half a century.

Israel has been swift and brutal in its response - to date, more than 50 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces.

Videos of these attacks, as well as the reprisals, have been broadcast by mainstream media causing some to conclude that the news is fuelling the sense of grievance and then the violence.

Whenever violence flares in this region, there are complaints from both sides over how this story is reported, and the same concerns - the lack of context, the issues around terminology and the way the stories are framed - have come to the fore once again.