Shuafat Refugee Camp

Israeli police stand opposite Palestinians in Shuafat Refugee Camp as they protest a days-long lockdown imposed by Israel, occupied East Jerusalem, October 12, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

PHOTOS: A day of civil disobedience in Shuafat Refugee Camp

Days into a near-total lockdown imposed by Israel, Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem camp staged a mass strike and protest, only to be attacked by security forces.

By Oren Ziv October 12, 2022

Ihab Hassan Ali stands on the remains of his family home in Shuafat Refugee Camp, East Jerusalem. (Rachel Shor)

‘They tossed us out like garbage’: The Palestinians who lost their Jerusalem homes

Israel demolished a record number of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem in 2020. Behind each one is a family that lost everything, with many unable to rebuild their lives.

By Yuval Abraham April 29, 2021

A view of the separation wall and Shuafat Refugee Camp, Jerusalem, March 22, 2020. (Photo By Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Abandoned by Israel, Jerusalem’s refugee camp is left to fight COVID-19 alone

With no tests, medical supplies, or isolation zones, the residents of Shuafat Refugee Camp are mobilizing to ensure they stay safe in the case of an outbreak.

By Yuval Abraham April 12, 2020

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The Israeli separation wall surrounds the East Jerusalem settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev, April 9, 2011. (Activestills.org)

We told ourselves we weren’t settlers. We were something different

In the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze’ev, we didn’t think of ourselves as settlers, despite the fact that we lived beyond the Green Line and our neighbors were Palestinian. By Ofer Matan The first Arab who stepped into our home was Sabah. The first time we met, Sabah washed his hands in our kitchen sink…

By +972 Magazine October 1, 2018

An Israeli Policeman prepares to fire a sponge-tipped bullet during a Nakba Day demonstration in East Jerusalem, May 15, 2013. (Haim Schwarczenberg)

Israeli forces shoot 11-year-old Palestinian in head with rubber bullet

Not a single Israeli outlet covered the incident. The Israeli army shot an 11-year-old Palestinian boy in the head with a rubber bullet Monday night during a raid on Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that the child was evacuated in a moderate condition to Israel’s Hadassah Medical Center in…

By Edo Konrad October 4, 2017

A young Palestinian boy walks by a section of the Palestinian side of the Separation Wall in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Dis. September 29, 2014. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Demographic hysteria leaves Jerusalemites by the wayside

For 50 years, the Israeli government has treated Jerusalem as a national symbol instead of as a city. Its residents, both Palestinians and Jews, are paying the price. By Efrat Cohen-Bar As far back as the 1970s, the Israeli government set a goal to maintain a Jewish majority of at least 70 percent in its…

By +972 Magazine August 3, 2017

Prison guards escort Yosef Haim Ben-David, the third defendant in the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, arrives to the Disctrict Court in Jerusalem, on April 5, 2016. Abu Khdeir, 16, a Palestinian teenager was abducted and killed in Jerusalem more then a year ago. His murder sparked violent protests in Arab areas of Jerusalem and northern Israel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court: Israel won’t demolish homes of Palestinian teen’s killers

Court rejects petition filed by family of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, claiming too much time passed since his murder and the filing of the petition. By +972 Magazine Staff Israel’s High Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled that the families of three Israelis who were convicted of kidnapping and murdering Muhammad Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old Palestinian who was…

By +972 Magazine July 5, 2017

A Palestinian man demolishes his own home in Jerusalem after receiving a demolition order related to a lack of proper permits. (File photo Sliman Khader/Flash90)

The impossible choice faced by East Jerusalem Palestinians

Palestinians in East Jerusalem live in an ongoing state of limbo: either stay where they are and risk having any additions they make to their homes demolished, or move away and lose their residency status. By Suleiman Maswadeh It was a day I’ll never forget. I was 14, and my father invited me to “visit…

By +972 Magazine April 19, 2017

An Israeli military police officer checks IDs at the checkpoint at the entrance to Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, December 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

The cops at the checkpoint always remind me which side I’m on

Until I learned Hebrew, I saw Jews as frightening, scary, armed people who expelled us from our land in 1967, now working on finishing us off. Does that surprise you? By Suleiman Maswadeh My name is Suleiman, I am 22 years old and I was born in Jerusalem’s Old City. Despite the fact that it…

By +972 Magazine February 13, 2017

The scene of the shooting in Shuafat Camp (Screenshot)

How police killed a Palestinian man, tried to blame his cousin

A Jerusalem court rejects police attempt to place the blame for their own bullets elsewhere, but it’s not the first time they’ve tried — or succeeded at doing so. By John Brown* On the night between Sunday and Monday of last week, Israeli Border Police officers shot and killed Mustafa Nimer, a resident of Ramat Gan,…

By +972 Magazine September 9, 2016

Israeli security forces line up in a street in Shuafat refugee camp during a home demolition, East Jerusalem, December 2, 2015.

This is how many Israeli cops it takes to demolish a Palestinian home

Around 1,200 members of the Israeli security forces entered Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on Wednesday morning to oversee the demolition of the home of Ibrahim al-Akri, who killed two Israelis in Jerusalem last year. Approximately 1,200 members of the Israeli security forces entered Shuafat refugee Camp in East Jerusalem Wednesday morning to demolish the…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth December 2, 2015

Hussein, the father of Palestinian teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was murdered last year, walks outside the district court in Jerusalem on November 30, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills)

Verdict in Abu Khdeir murder delayed by mental health claims

The two minors are convicted of kidnapping and murdering 16-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir in East Jerusalem last year. Despite the judges’ assessment of guilt, however, no verdict is issued against the main suspect. The reason? A last-minute mental health assessment — in English. A panel of Jerusalem District Court judges on Monday issued a verdict…

By Natasha Soffer-Roth November 30, 2015

Building the separation barrier around Shuafat refugee camp, East Jerusalem, 2013. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Netanyahu’s transfer plan: Turning dispossession into tradition

Netanyahu recently proposed that Israel revoke the residency status of tens of thousands of Palestinians in East Jerusalem who live beyond the wall. This appalling idea will merely continue what is already in motion: years of ‘quiet transfer.’ By Hagai El-Ad The latest proposed experiment to emerge from the Prime Minister’s Office – revoking the…

By +972 Magazine November 1, 2015