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Israel spurns international law and UN resolutions unfavorable to its interests with impunity. As a result, Palestinians have suffered grievously for decades.
A Snapshot of Arab East Jerusalem
Palestinians numbering 360,882 comprise 38% of Jerusalem's population. Since 1967, residency rights for over 14,000 Palestinians were lawlessly revoked. Palestinian Jerusalem district poverty approaches 80%. For children, it's 84%.
Help for those in need is seriously deficient. Thousands of children are at risk. Overall conditions are deplorable. Education is harmed by a shortage of around 1,000 classrooms.
Israel lets Palestinians build on only 17% of their land. Since 1967, about one-third of East Jerusalem was expropriated for exclusive Jewish development. Israel wants the entire city Judaized. Palestinians are being systematically forced out.
A combination of residency rights, permit authority, the Separation Wall, checkpoints, Jews only roads, and other restrictions, effectively isolate East Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank.
Around 90,000 East Jerusalemites with blue Israeli identity cards lack access to most of the city. At issue are jobs, education, medical care, other vital services, and ability to visit family members.
In May, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) published a report titled "Policies of Neglect in East Jerusalem: The Policies that created 78% Poverty Rates and a Frail Job Market."
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