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Shuafat refugee camp (Photo: Alexis Thiry)
WATCH: Jerusalem’s extraterritorial neighborhood — Shuafat Camp
The Jerusalem Municipality and Israel Police provide no services to the walled-off neighborhood of Shuafat Refugee Camp, which is inside the city of Jerusalem. Camp residents discuss what they need.
By Social TV April 14, 2015
A resident of Ras Shehada plugs the building's pipe to a pump to help the water pressure, East Jerusalem, March 15, 2014. The family of nine, living in the Ras Shehada neighborhood has been going 10 days without running water. (Activestills.org)
High Court demands a solution to East Jerusalem water crisis
Palestinian neighborhoods of Jerusalem have been suffering from a severe water crisis for 10 months. Israel’s High Court of Justice on Monday ordered the state to find a solution to the severe lack of running water in four East Jerusalem neighborhoods located beyond the separation barrier. Despite their location within territory that Israel unilaterally annexed to…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 20, 2015
Illustrative photo of garbage (flickr/Editor B)
East Jerusalemites appeal to UN for help with garbage collection
Palestinian residents of Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, which is grossly lacking in municipal services, are looking elsewhere for help with garbage collection. Mynet (Hebrew) reports that residents of Qalandia and Kfar Akab are “drowning in garbage.”  The two Palestinian neighborhoods are within the Israeli-drawn municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, but located on the West Bank side of…
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat March 4, 2012
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