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Jerusalem continues to lie at the center of political developments in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and in the shifting landscape of US and EU foreign policy toward Palestine and the Israeli regime.
 Politics
Through its participation in the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and other international forums, the Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to promote a state-centric approach to climate change that ultimately blocks legitimate climate and environmental justice in Palestine. In effect, Palestinian leadership has reduced the Palestinian liberation struggle - inherently a struggle for climate and environmental justice - to a failed state-building project since the 1993 Oslo Accords. 
Al-Shabaka Muna Dajani
Muna Dajani· Jan 30, 2022
Muna Dajani joins host Yara Hawari to discuss how the #SaveSheikhJarrah campaign in support of her family and others in the Jerusalem neighborhood has acted as a catalyst for the ongoing uprising across historic Palestine against decades of Israeli settler-colonialism.
Historic Palestine has long had an abundance of natural resources, ranging from fresh and ground water, arable land and, more recently, oil and natural gas. In the seven decades since the establishment of the state of Israel, these resources have been compromised and exploited through a variety of measures. These include widespread Palestinian dispossession of land in the ongoing Nakba, exploitation of water through failed negotiations, and a finders-keepers approach to gas and oil found in or under occupied land. 
 Politics
Palestine is undergoing a man-made water crisis. Yet government officials, the international community, donor agencies, and even academic literature portray Palestine’s lack of water resources as a result of the region’s climatic conditions. What these narratives fail to address is that Palestine’s water scarcity is a social and political construct that obscures how Israel entrenches its hegemony over water resources, with donor support, resulting in severe water inequality for Palestinians.
Al-Shabaka Muna Dajani
Muna Dajani· Jul 30, 2017
 Politics
Israel has practiced a systemic policy of destroying Palestinian water resources and has shown that it is willing to contravene the Geneva Conventions in its use of water as a tool of coercion and control. During military operations, Israel has targeted water infrastructure in both the West Bank and Gaza, perpetuating humanitarian crises.
Al-Shabaka Muna Dajani
Muna Dajani· Sep 4, 2014

Media mention

International donor-led schemes promote peacebuilding and collaboration rather than pushing Israel to end its occupation
Al-Shabaka Muna Dajani
Muna Dajani· Feb 28, 2022
Our message is clear: we are not going anywhere. We want to remain, to continue to build memories.
Al-Shabaka Muna Dajani
Muna Dajani· May 11, 2021
Two areas farmed by Israelis for more than 50 years have recently been returned to neighbouring Jordan. The first, al Ghamr (known in Israel as Zofar), is located south of the Dead Sea in the Naqab/Negev desert. The second, al Baqura (Naharayim) is found at the fertile point where a major tributary joins the Jordan River.
Al-Shabaka Muna Dajani
Muna Dajani· Dec 19, 2019
Op-Ed
Evidence of water warfare, and deliberate efforts to use water as a weapon against Palestinian civilian populations, is being documented at all levels.
Al-Shabaka Muna Dajani
Muna Dajani· Oct 3, 2014
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