Jerusalem

Summary

Primary Documents

Selected UN Security Council Resolutions on Jerusalem (21 May 1968)

Related Reports

Israel's 2001 Seizure of Orient House and Other Palestinian Institutions in Occupied East Jerusalem: A Legal Analysis (August 16, 2001) Report on the West Bank Barrier of Abu-Dis, Occupied East Jerusalem (UNRWA March 2004)
Israel Violates Road Map by Extending Orient House Closure Forbidden Families: Family Unification and Child Registration in East Jerusalem (The Israel Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories)
Barrier through Jerusalem will Violate Rights of Residents Nu’man, East Jerusalem: Life Under the Threat of Expulsion (B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories)
The Status of Jerusalem in International Law

Who Owns the Western Wall?

Letter from Jordan to UN Submitting 1930 Report (United Nations, February 23, 1968)
1930 UK Commission of Inquiry Report (United Nations, February 23, 1968)

Fact Sheets

Carving up the Palestinian Capital The Israeli Ring Road Around Occupied East Jerusalem (February 2008) The Right to Vote: Palestinians in Occupied East Jerusalem (Updated January 24, 2006)
Jerusalem Case Study Betar Illit v. Wadi Fukin (September 2006) Democracy under Occupation: Jerusalem and the 2006 PLC Elections (January 2006)
Arabic Israel’s Continued Land Confiscation in Jerusalem: The Application of Israel’s Absentee Property Law (28 January 2005)
  Occupied East Jerusalem Legal Status

From the Press

Washington Post Foreign Service, John Ward Anderson, Encircling of Jerusalem Complicates Prospects for Peace (February 10, 2004) Adnan Husseini: Muslim Waqf Activities in Jerusalem (July 23, 2000)
BBC News Online, Settlers Move into East Jerusalem (March 31, 2004) Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen): No Peace Agreement without Jerusalem (July 29, 2003)
Financial Times, Sharmila Devi, Israeli Wall Draws Palestinians Back to Jerusalem (April 1, 2004) Vatican: East Jerusalem is part of the Occupied Territories (August 10, 2000)
Ha’aretz, Amnon Barzilai, Up Against the Wall (April 30, 2004) Michael Dumper: Jerusalem and the Illusion of Israeli Sovereignty
Faisal Husseini: The Holy City Must Be Ruled Fairly (July 3, 2000) The Christian Science Monitor, Ben Lynfield, Settlers Vie For East Jerusalem (December 12, 2003)
BBC News, The Long Race to Jerusalem (July 12, 2004)  

Maps

Israeli Ring Road Around Occupied East Jerusalem (February 10, 2008) Israel's Wall in Eastern Jerusalem: Adumim and the "E-1 Plan"
Jerusalem’s New Settlements (May 10, 2007) Israel's Wall and Settlements in Southern Jerusalem: The Bethlehem District
Jerusalem Wall (February 2007) Colony Housing Units Approved by Israel in Occupied Palestinian Jerusalem (September 2004)
Evacuating Gaza, Seizing Jerusalem
(August 2005)
Israel's Colonization of Occupied East Jerusalem
Israel's Wall and Settlements in Jerusalem Israel's Wall in Northwest Palestinian Jerusalem (September 2004)
Israel's Wall and Settlements in Northwest Jerusalem Israeli-Occupied Palestinian Jerusalem (September 2004)

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Links

Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA)