| Summary/Abstract |
After Israel occupied the West Bank following the 1967 War, it annexed around 70.5 square kilometers of the West Bank into the Jerusalem municipality boundary and claimed Jerusalem as an open city. The Palestinians who remained in Jerusalem were protected by the International Humanitarian Law (IHL), since the annexation conflicted with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council (OCHA, 2009). The Israeli government at that time granted the Palestinian Jerusalemites a permanent residency status and offered them the right to apply for Israeli citizenship, but Palestinians refused to apply for it (Barakat, 2012). In order to understand the issues surrounding Jerusalem, we must place the urban planners of the city at the forefront of suggestions and strategies based on their visions through working with the hegemonic power of the land (Yiftachel, 2006).
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