Property

Blog Post Musrara Café across from Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate Faces Closure

A lifetime family business is forcibly terminated by the state.

Feature Story Questionable Secret Land Lease Deal Threatens Historic Armenian Community Land and Property in Old City

The Armenian community responds to a shadowy land deal that could remove a fourth of the Armenian Quarter.

Interview An Expert Unravels the Complexities of Land Ownership in East Jerusalem

Israel manipulates the complex reality of land settlement and registration in Jerusalem, and Palestinians must understand and confront it.

Video “We Are Here”—A Jerusalemite Family Story

A Palestinian whose family was forced to relocate from West to East Jerusalem in 1948 returns to one of the family homes in West Jerusalem that Israel confiscated and shares his family’s story and memories.

Short Take The Sakakini House: Tracing Israel’s Bureaucracy of Collective Confiscation through One Treasured Home

“All we talk about is the house”—A timeline showing how a Palestinian home in what became West Jerusalem was confiscated and passed to Jewish ownership and its origins erased

Short Take How Israel Applies the Absentees’ Property Law to Confiscate Palestinian Property in Jerusalem

Israel uses the 1950 Absentees’ Property Law and several amendments to it to confiscate Palestinian property across East Jerusalem and give it to Jewish settlers.