On the 41 Anniversary of the Israeli Occupation, ‘Israel still persistent and relentless to sentence prospects of Peace to an end
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 [...]
Disaster Mitigation towards Sustainable Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
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, [...]
Spatial Data Infrastructure towards E-Municipality: The Case of Beit Sahour Municipality
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 Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ) Refutes the Report of the Israeli Occupation Authorities, which accuses the Palestinian of Polluting the Environment and Water Resources
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 Water Rights and the Water Wrongs in Palestine
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 [...]
Israeli Violations against the Palestinian Environment
The paper highlights the numerous Israeli violations against the Palestinian environment which begin with land confiscation policy and its illegal use of the West Bank territories, the building of illegal settlements and military bases, the destruction of infrastructure and vast areas of [...]
Jabal Al-Taweel (Pesagot)
The paper presents different information about Jabal Al-Taweel, which is located 20 km from Jerusalem. It presents climate information related to cloudiness, rainfall, average temperature, and solar radiation. The paper then discusses the history of Pesagot colony, highlighting the colonization of Jabal [...]
Planning towards a Sustainable Land Transportation System in a Future Palestinian State
The paper at hand briefly touches the geopolitical status that formed the structure of the current Palestinian land transportation system and discusses the Palestinian transportation planning dilemmas, both presently and in the future, that must be addressed by Palestinian physical planners, as [...]