About 450,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank and another 220,000 live in East Jerusalem.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/28/israel-aflame/

Al-Sudairi told senior Palestinian officials Tuesday that Saudi Arabia supported the creation of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, according to a statement from Palestinian officials.

Source: https://www.mymcmurray.com/2023/09/26/saudi-delegation-visits-palestinian-territories-as-israel-and-saudi-arabia-eye-normalization/

Amnesty International concluded that “in both Hebron and occupied East Jerusalem, facial recognition technology supports a closed network of surveillance cameras to monitor Palestinians almost constantly.”

Source: https://houstonianonline.com/israel-subjects-palestinians-to-more-facial-recognition/

And, since US-brokered talks collapsed in 2014, and as Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have proliferated, the consensus has been that the two-state solution is dead.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/04/israel-hamas-war-live-blinken-set-to-meet-with-middle-east-foreign-ministers-in-jordan-airstrike-on-gaza-ambulance-kills-15

Ben-Gvir on Tuesday visited the flashpoint holy site’s compound in East Jerusalem, which was denounced by the Palestinian side as a provocation.

Source: https://www.mangalorean.com/palestinian-diplomat-stresses-importance-of-unsc-session-on-al-aqsa-mosque-issue/

But it said the Palestinians will not be deterred from demanding their “legitimate inalienable rights, chief among them the right to self- determination and the right to establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital”.

Source: https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/national/23885499.un-general-assembly-calls-humanitarian-truce-gaza/?ref=rss

Claims by Israel that the status of the occupied territories is still negotiable, apart from the enlarged city limits of East Jerusalem, have been a joke.

Source: https://themedialine.org/news/opinion/30-years-of-catastrophe/

Hamas and Hezbollah have both said the attack is a response to Israeli violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-attack-israel-what-we-know

In Beit Hanina, the East Jerusalem neighborhood where she was born, public displays of Palestinian identity – even just saying the word Palestine – can land a person in trouble.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/05/21/a-gift-to-my-ancestors-meet-the-palestinian-american-authors-bringing-their-culture-to-the-heart-of-childrens-books/

Israel annexed East Jerusalem and the West Bank after the 1967 war against Arab states.

Source: https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-billionaire-calls-palestine-attacker-terrorist

Israel captured the West Bank, along with Gaza and East Jerusalem, in the 1967 Six Day War.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-committee-votes-to-list-ancient-jericho-as-a-world-heritage-site-in-palestine/

Israeli forces yesterday arrested two Palestinians and wounded five others in the Issawiya neighborhood located in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Wadi Hilweh Information Centre.

Source: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/hamas-qassam-brigades-just-added-this-weapon-to-its-jenin-defenses-video/

Israel is set to deport a Palestinian-French lawyer and resident of occupied East Jerusalem, Salah Hamouri, on December 4, The New Arab reported on Thursday.

Source: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-protesters-block-highways-mob-stock-exchange-to-protest-judicial-overhaul/

MDA said its medics treated the pair on Ma’alot Ir David Street in the capital, close to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, before taking them to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the city.

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-seriously-wounded-in-another-shooting-attack-in-jerusalem-attacker-neutralized/

More recently, Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), resorted to the “both sides” approach while discussing Israeli violence in occupied East Jerusalem.

Source: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/two-sides-one-side-and-personal-revelation-on-the-exclusion-of-the-palestinian-voice/

On Thursday, a Palestinian man from occupied East Jerusalem also died from wounds sustained during confrontations with Israeli forces after they had stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in May 2021.

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestinian-dies-raid-west-bank

Photographs of Wadea Abu Ramuz at his family home in East Jerusalem, May 1, 2023.

Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children

Prospects of reviving US-brokered peace talks that collapsed almost a decade ago and had aimed to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, remain dim.

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/conflict/suspected-palestinian-gunmen-kill-two-israelis-army-c-11642778

Raids throughout the occupied West Bank also took place on Thursday, including in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, as resistance forces opened fire again on a number of Israeli checkpoints.

Source: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/this-week-in-palestine-eight-palestinians-killed-by-israel-in-occupied-west-bank/

Saudi Arabia has held out the offer to normalise ties with Israel since 2002 under the Arab Peace Plan, which calls for an independent Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-eleven-things-learned-interview