When Israeli captured East Jerusalem along with other Arab-Palestinian territories during the 1967 war, it became an obsession of the successive Israeli governments to win the demographic battle over Jerusalem to their favor. Hence, in the decades of Israeli occupation to follow, Israel has systematically planned and practiced all sorts of operations to eradicate the Palestinian existence from the occupied city that might ultimately threaten their quest of Jerusalem as “the eternal, undivided capital of Israel”. Accordingly, Israel employed all within its capabilities to ensure “Jewish dominance” in the city, regardless of the means and methods used to realize their quest; thus they violated repeatedly every aspect of the international law and facilitated the establishment of illegal settlements, demolished thousands of Palestinian houses and crippled the city economy worse than anytime ever before.
Info-Graph: The Construction of the Israeli Segregation Wall in and around Jerusalem
Prepared by
The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem
ARIJ
