Israeli state agencies accelerate Palestinian displacement in East Jerusalem, report says

LONDON: Israeli government ministries and public authorities have sharply increased their direct and visible involvement in uprooting Palestinians from occupied East Jerusalem since 2023, according to a new report released Monday by the Israeli rights group Ir Amim.

The report, “Expulsion: The State Architecture of Dispossession in East Jerusalem,” identifies 19 state and public bodies across eight ministries and institutional entities involved in evictions, home demolitions, property seizures and settlement expansion.

It also says six Palestinian communities face expulsion.

While efforts to take over Palestinian homes and land have long been associated with settler organizations such as Ateret Cohanim and Elad, the report argues that state institutions are driving dispossession on a far greater scale, rather than merely supporting those groups.