Discriminatory Zoning and Planning in East Jerusalem In June 1967, Israel annexed 70.5 km² of the occupied areas in and around Jerusalem. This unilateral act, contradictory to international law, meant the confiscation of a third of the area of East Jerusalem.101 These parts were added to the municipal areas of Jerusalem under Israeli rule, which applied the administration, law and jurisdiction of Israel. However, Israel annexed the land without its people: even though the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem was granted the status of ‘permanent residents in Israel’, they were not granted citizenship.102 After the 1967 occupation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), Israel adopted a policy of systematic and deliberate inequity against the Palestinian population of Jerusalem in all matters relating to land expropriation, planning and building. For example, in order to curb the authorization of building permits for areas not zoned for construction or which lack planning schemes, Israel applied the Planning and Building Law of 1965.103 This law is still applied and demonstrates a considerably discriminatory application as, for example, between 1996 and 2001, 82% of the recorded building violations were located in the western part of the city while 80% of the administrative demolition orders concerned construction violations were in the eastern part of the city.104 As another example of such discrimination, Palestinians can build maximum three floors, while in the western part Jewish-Israeli are allowed to build up to 300% or more.105 Jerusalem Municipality presents Master Plan 2000 as a tool to outline the city’s development in the next decades, ensuring the urban quality of life to all 101 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians, A Handbook for Vulnerable Individuals and Communities, 7. 102 Khamaisi, “Barriers in Achieving Urban Planning Rights in Jerusalem’s Socio-Cultural Conflict,” 7. 103 BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Israeli Land Grab and Forced Population Transfer of Palestinians, A Handbook for Vulnerable Individuals and Communities, 106. 104 Nathan Marom for Bimkom and Ir Amim, The Planning Deadlock, 4. 105 Khalil Tufakije, , the head of the Mapping and Geographic Information Systems Department of the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem. Interview, 30 October 2014. 37