Below you will find example sentences with "east jerusalem". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
East Jerusalem in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: jerusalem
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 29
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "east jerusalem" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as state with east jerusalem as its, area of east jerusalem has been, palestinian, israel and capital stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with east asia, east berlin and east germany, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with east jerusalem
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A Palestinian shooting attack outside a synagogue in east Jerusalem killed seven people, including a 14-year-old. (18 words)
Hamas and Hezbollah have both said the attack is a response to Israeli violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. (22 words)
In April 2017, Russia recognized west Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. (23 words)
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”. (38 words)
A Palestinian family in occupied East Jerusalem was forced to tear down their own home on Saturday to avoid paying exorbitant demolition fees to the Israeli Jerusalem Municipality, following a demolition order on their home. (35 words)
Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem, with its sites holy to three monotheistic faiths, along with the rest of east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
In this photo from May 24, 2017, backdropped by the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, people tour the Jerusalem Ramparts Walk on Jerusalem’s Old City walls.
Occupied East Jerusalem – The mood in occupied East Jerusalem is tense as the city’s Palestinians prepare for Islam’s holy month of Ramadan.
A couple of decades ago, Regev noted, if you wanted to go out for dinner in Jerusalem on a Friday night, you had to travel to east Jerusalem.
Israel captured the Old City of Jerusalem, with its sites holy to three monotheistic faiths, along with the rest of east Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Mideast war.
In East Jerusalem, 24 structures were demolished last month, half of them by their owners following the issuance of demolition orders by the Jerusalem municipality.
In response, Israel arrested dozens of East Jerusalem residents suspected of inciting violence and briefly detained the head of the Islamic authority that oversees Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.
The decision is controversial because Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its capital while Palestinians view East Jerusalem as the capital of its future state.
A Palestinian family in occupied East Jerusalem was forced to tear down their own home on Saturday to avoid paying exorbitant demolition fees to the Israeli Jerusalem Municipality, following a demolition order on their home.
In April 2017, Russia recognized west Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
This area of East Jerusalem has been a target of the Ateret Cohanim right-wing Israeli organization that aims to handover Palestinian-owned properties in Jerusalem to Israeli settlers.
On June 25–27, Israel incorporated East Jerusalem together with areas of the West Bank to the north and south into Jerusalem's new municipal boundaries.
A lone Palestinian killed seven people in the settlement of Neve Yaakov—a “neighbourhood” in east Jerusalem built as part of Israel’s efforts to claim Palestinian land—last Friday.
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.
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.
A Palestinian shooting attack outside a synagogue in east Jerusalem killed seven people, including a 14-year-old.
Ben-Gvir on Tuesday visited the flashpoint holy site’s compound in East Jerusalem, which was denounced by the Palestinian side as a provocation.
But escalating violence – including Israeli raids – in the West Bank and east Jerusalem could blow back to wreck the quiet in Gaza, even though these areas are not covered under the ceasefire.
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”.
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.
Hamas and Hezbollah have both said the attack is a response to Israeli violations of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.