{"id":97,"date":"2011-04-18T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=97"},"modified":"2011-04-18T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:58:42","slug":"new-un-report-says-palestinian-presence-in-east-jerusalem-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/new-un-report-says-palestinian-presence-in-east-jerusalem-threatened\/","title":{"rendered":"New UN Report Says Palestinian Presence in East Jerusalem Threatened"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the Occupied Palestinian Territories<\/a>\u00a0says that unless current Israeli policies are changed, the Palestinian presence in East Jerusalem is at risk.\u00a0\u00a0 See the Peace not Walls Major Issue page on Jerusalem<\/a> for more information, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land’s website <\/a>for information about our longtime companion church there.<\/div>\n
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The report\u00a0gives background, current statistics\u00a0and case studies about residency rights;\u00a0planning, zoning and home demolitions; settlements; the separation barrier and restrictions on education and health care.<\/div>\n
Citing\u00a0the Jerusalem Master Plan of 2000 and related policies\u00a0designed to maintain a Jewish majority in Jerusalem, the report blames the current\u00a0Palestinian housing shortage on\u00a0Israeli policies like\u00a0reserving only 13% of the land for Palestinian building, most of which is already\u00a0built up,\u00a0home demolitions, settlement expansion and the new open spaces plan.<\/div>\n
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Dr. Tawfik Nasser, CEO of Augusta Victoria, explains the difficulties of running a hospital in East Jerusalem in a new UN report.<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the report,\u00a0 the Palestinian population is also being thinned by the revocation of Jerusalem IDs, the freezing\u00a0 of\u00a0family reunification permits and outright evictions is also detailed.\u00a0 Problems with the separation barrier, access to education and health care are also explored.\u00a0\u00a0One case study in the report features the LWF’s Augusta Victoria Hospital’s CEO Dr. Tawfik Nasser\u00a0 discussing the difficulty in expanding hospital space and obtaining pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and necessary permits for EMTs.<\/p>\n

Augusta Victoria Hospital <\/a>has been serving refugees and all who need health care since 1949, and is one of six major health institutions in East Jerusalem.\u00a0 The Lutheran World Federation’s Jerusalem program<\/a>, which runs the hospital as well as other programs, also has a housing project underway, the Mt. of Olives Housing Project<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0to address the critical housing shortage for Palestinians and help keep a Palestinian presence in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Another case study in the report features the the Kasabrehs.\u00a0 Ghassan, the organist at Redeemer Lutheran Congregation, has a Jerusalem ID, but his wife, Rimaz, is from\u00a0Nablus and only has a West Bank ID.\u00a0\u00a0They have been told that the yearly permit they have been issued –\u00a0a timely and sometimes costly process – will not be issued anymore as of now, so she will be illegal in her own home when her current permit runs out.\u00a0 The Kasabrehs were featured on an ELCA video entitled The Forbidden\u00a0Family.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the Occupied Palestinian Territories\u00a0says that unless current Israeli policies are changed, the Palestinian presence in East Jerusalem is at risk.\u00a0\u00a0 See the Peace not Walls Major Issue page on Jerusalem for more information, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and […]<\/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":[36,8035],"tags":[8041,8042,8043],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerusalem","category-reports","tag-jerusalem-2","tag-ocha","tag-reports-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew UN Report Says Palestinian Presence in East Jerusalem Threatened - SUMUD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New UN Report Says Palestinian Presence in East Jerusalem Threatened - 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