Today, it is universally recognized that East Jerusalem is part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip...

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Today, it is universally recognized that East Jerusalem is part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip where sovereignty belongs to the Palestinian people.
Since 1967, the United Nations has in vain urged Israel to rescind its annexation and population transfer, which contradict the UN Charter, are serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, and result in war crimes. All states have been called to:
Abstain from assisting these Israeli violations, and, cooperate in order to bring them to an end.
Private companies have been reminded of their duty to respect international humanitarian and human rights law and terminate business involvement in the illegal Israeli activities in occupied East Jerusalem.

Deprived of land, homes and heritage: home demolitions and forced evictions:

✴At least one third of the Palestinian land has been expropriated, mainly under the Absentees’ Property Law and for alleged “public” purpose. Even where Palestinians still own land, they cannot build on it. Under the pretext of “urban planning”, Israel restricts Palestinian development to 13% of the area of East Jerusalem. Thousands of Palestinians have been evicted and Palestinian homes and heritage destroyed, as their land has been allocated for Jewish-Israeli urban infrastructure, settlements and sites of tourism and worship.

✴In the Old City after the 1967 war, entire Palestinian neighbourhoods were destroyed and the land expropriated. Several thousand Palestinian inhabitants, including many 1948 refugees, were evicted to create space for Jewish worshippers and the new, expanded Jewish Quarter.

✴Today, in Palestinian neighbourhoods adjacent to the Old City (Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, Issawiya, Al Tour) Israeli settlers, authorities and courts collude in evicting Palestinians and destroying their homes and heritage for the development of Israeli-Jewish “national parks“ and tourist sites – often taking advantage of an Israeli law that allows claims for pre-1948 properties in East Jerusalem - but not in West Jerusalem where the properties of the refugees are located.

✴In the outskirts of East Jerusalem, Palestinian homes and communities (Beit Hanina, Shufat, Beit Safafa, Bedouin communities) are destroyed to make space for Israeli settlements and highways constructed in expropriated land for Israeli “Greater Jerusalem” in the occupied West Bank.

✴Palestinian structures built without permits are systematically demolished. Permits that Israel will not issue to a Palestinian.