monitoring reports

Jerusalem is an epicenter of a series of contested confrontations and events both from the past and throughout modern history; today it is a living paradigm of distinctive apartheid that is epitomized, among many of its other forms, in the urban planning [...]

The paper discusses the reasons why Israel should not join the EU & the Nato, and basis its argument on international law, and the laws of the EU itself. Some of the reasons presented in the paper include: Israel’s colonial activities which [...]

The paper was written on the anniversary of 41 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, highlighting Israel’s activities, and violations during these years, depriving Palestinians from their god given rights, manipulating the geographic and demographic realities, inflicting massive [...]

Due to political, economical and social conditions dominating the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT; consisting of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip), the Palestinian people and government in the OPT face a multitude of challenges, in relation to governance, [...]

The paper at hand distillates the experiment of the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ) in the development of a local Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), Also Known As; Municipal Information System (MIS) for the Beit Sahour Municipality. The development of the SDI is introduced [...]

The Ministry of Environmental Protection in cooperation with the Israel Nature and National Parks Protection Authority and the Israeli Civil Administration published a report on the monitoring of pollution in the West Bank, pointing out that the wastewater flowing from Palestinian communities [...]

The paper presents the water problems that Palestine faces on a daily basis, which are caused by the Israeli occupation. In addition, it points out what Oslo agreement states in terms of Palestinian water rights, and the role of the Palestinian Authority [...]