Photos: Bruce Shaffer
United Jerusalem? Not Really...
The US Embassy is moving to Jerusalem. What does it mean for the lives of 40% of its residents, the Palestinians in East Jerusalem? Will their lives improve? Will the inequity and deprivation of basic living conditions - roads, housing, education, government services, public parks, water supply, and sewage and garbage collections, an unstable legal status, poverty and oppression suddenly disappear? Approximately 80,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem are caught behind a Separation Wall. They face endless daily bureaucratic and physical barriers as they head to work, school, medical care, family visits and prayer at Haram Al-Sharif (Temple Mount). Will any of these issues resolve with the grand gesture of this move to Jerusalem?
Browse Bruce Shaffer’s album of impressions on a recent early morning visit with MachsomWatch to the Qalandiya Checkpoint
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