– Approximately 4 million Palestinians from the remainder of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are prohibited from entering East Jerusalem without Israeli-issued permits, which are difficult to obtain.<\/strong><\/p>\n – Access to East Jerusalem is controlled by a combination of physical and administrative obstacles. Palestinians who are able to obtain permits can only use four of the 16 checkpoints along the Barrier.<\/p>\n – Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem lack a secure legal residency status. Between 1967 and mid-2010, around 14,000 Palestinians had their Jerusalem residency revoked by the Israeli authorities.<\/strong><\/p>\n – Approximately 55,000 Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem are physically separated from the urban centre by the Barrier<\/strong>; they must cross crowded checkpoints to access health, education and other services to which they are entitled as residents of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n – 35% of land in East Jerusalem has been confiscated for Israeli settlement use; only 13% of East Jerusalem is zoned for Palestinian construction, much of which is already built-up.<\/strong><\/p>\n – At least 33% of all Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem lack Israeli-issued building permits, which are difficult to obtain, potentially placing at least 93,100 residents at risk of displacement,<\/strong> which has a psychological impact. Since 1967, the Israeli authorities have demolished some 2,000 houses in East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n – There is a chronic shortage of classrooms in East Jerusalem: 1,100 additional classrooms are required to accommodate Palestinian children and many existing facilities are substandard or unsuitable.<\/strong><\/p>\n A UN report by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs was released in December that focuses on key humanitarian issues in Jerusalem, including: – Around 293,000 Palestinians currently reside in East Jerusalem, in addition to 200,000 Israeli settlers who reside in the settlements which have been constructed and expanded since 1967, contrary to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8040,36,8035,8111],"tags":[8042,8053],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-jerusalem","category-reports","category-settlements-2","tag-ocha","tag-un-ocha"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2013\/01\/jerusalemochadec12-1024x821.jpg\")
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