For Arabs only: building restrictions in east Jerusalem

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Government planning policy denies Palestinians the right to use their land in East Jerusalem. Thirty-three percent of this land has been expropriated and used for building homes for more than 40,000 Jewish families. Planning schemes confine Palestinians to 10 percent of the land area of East Jerusalem. Draconian bureaucratic measures imposed on 'Arabs only' aggressively prevent construction on the remaining Palestinian lands in East Jerusalem. The result: a shortage of 21,000 homes for Arab families. Using Har Homa to provide for the Arab 'homeless' could be the only political and moral justification for developing the lonely mountain Jabal Abu Ghunaym.

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Kaminker, S. (1997). For Arabs only: building restrictions in east Jerusalem. Journal of Palestine Studies, 26(4), 5–16. https://doi.org/10.2307/2537903

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