As part of a major push to change garbage collection in the city, services were privatized, sidelining municipal employees and forcing contractors to move workers from the Old City to Jewish neighborhoods
Aziz Abu Sarah and Ramadan Dabbash have already made a significant point by running for office in an Israeli municipal poll that the Palestinians traditionally have boycotted since 1967
Working as an eye doctor in East Jerusalem, I saw first-hand how Israel maims Palestinians as a form of crowd control. Now Trump is cutting U.S. funds to the hospitals that treat them
The young people burst into the East Jerusalem event celebrating a new issue for the 'Palestine Israel Journal' and proceeded to break glasses, toss microphones and condemn normalization with Israel
The assailant, Ayman Kurd, has also been confined to a wheelchair since being shot at the scene of the attack two years ago at the Herod's Gate to Jerusalem's Old City
The American funding helps cover part of a debt owed by the Palestinian Authority to the hospitals, which has pushed many of them to the brink of bankruptcy
State Department official tells Haaretz decision is part of broader administration approach of cutting Palestinian aid ■ PLO calls move 'act of political blackmail' that goes against human decency
The 'clean revolution,' as Mayor Nir Barkat calls it, began in Jerusalem last month, with the privatization of sanitation services in the east. Sanitation in East Jerusalem has since deteriorated
Aziz Abu Sarah is breaking the traditional East Jerusalem boycott on local elections ■ 'They don't have any arguments so they're using violence,' Abu Sarah says of protesters
If the plan is implemented, it will be considered one of the largest Jewish settlements in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem