The Case of East Jerusalem

Israeli occupation of Palestine still continues. Critical issues such as the refugee situation and the conflicts over Jerusalem and the border have not yet been resolved, nor even put on the negotiation table. Time is a significant and critical factor. There have been several generations of refugees and the occupied people, and occupation conditions have changed with each generation. In this paper, I would like to argue the importance of depicting the lives of Palestinians by examining the case of East Jerusalem. More concretely, I will describe the impact of the Israeli occupation policies on the daily lives of Palestinians in East Jerusalem. I will focus on the “residency right ” as the most important policy, which Israel imposed on Palestinians in East Jerusalem after 1967, and other occupation policies such as checkpoints and the Separation Wall as important factors, which have strengthened the effect and significance of the residency right. Israel has attempted to unify West and East Jerusalem since 1967 by enacting laws and by erasing the border between the two sides on a social level. To put it concretely, Israel has been promoting the policy of “strengthening the Jewish presence in Jerusalem