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After the June 1967 War, during which Israel occupied, inter alia, East Jerusalem, the Israeli government illegally annexed East Jerusalem, drew a new municipal boundary and applied its law, jurisdiction and administration there. All these measures aimed at strengthening its control over the city and had far-reaching effects on the legal status and rights of the city’s Palestinian population.
This bulletin focuses on the legal aspects pertaining to the Palestinian residents of occupied Jerusalem, demonstrating how the principle of equality before the law – a well-established principle in civil legal systems – is absent in the city (and the occupied Palestinian territories at large), where Israel systematically implements the law in a discriminatory way against its own residents in order to confiscate Palestinian property, restrict Palestinian construction and development, and set hurdles for residency and family unification.
