The Jerusalem Landscape in 2024
| dc.contributor.author | Said Abu Ali | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-31T21:14:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-31T21:14:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | As Israel’s relentless campaign of annihilation and destruction continues to ravage Gaza, its criminal machinery has, by the end of this dark year, claimed the lives of over 150,000 martyrs and wounded countless others. The devastation is unfathomable, with over 80% of Gaza’s infrastructure obliterated under the weight of more than a thousand tons of explosives—greater in destructive power than the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The resulting wreckage, according to UN estimates, will take over a year to clear. The world stands paralyzed, unable to halt any aspect of this catastrophe, including the ruthless starvation campaign—a humiliating indictment of the international community’s moral integrity. This siege of death extends beyond Gaza to the West Bank, where the aggression rages on unabated, marked by systematic killings, demolitions, mass arrests, forced displacements, settlement expansion, and the relentless Judaization of Palestinian lands—all sanctioned and declared as official Israeli policy. Throughout 2024, Jerusalem has borne the brunt of an intensified and expanding campaign of Judaization, with Israeli authorities executing their schemes with near-total impunity. A deafening silence pervades the political and media spheres, as if Jerusalem’s isolation and transformation into an Israeli stronghold were a foregone conclusion, barely warranting protest—let alone resistance. The prevailing Arab and Islamic responses remain largely confined to rhetorical stances that underscore a state of impotence rather than offering tangible action. It is precisely this dichotomy—between Israel’s escalating measures and the Arab and Islamic world’s reactions—that al-Maqdisiyah seeks to examine. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2707-9767 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.alquds.edu/handle/20.500.12213/9870 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Al-Quds University | |
| dc.title | The Jerusalem Landscape in 2024 | |
| dc.type | Article |