The Jerusalem-based organization said in a statement that, according to data it collected, "May saw the highest number of demolitions in 2025 so far, with a total of 33 buildings demolished, including 16 residential units and 17 non-residential structures."
She continued: "This brings the total number of demolitions in East Jerusalem since the beginning of the year to 93, including 53 residential units and 40 non-residential buildings."
According to the organization's data, 23 buildings were demolished in January, 15 in February, 14 in March, 8 in April, and 33 in May.
Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations say that the Israeli occupation authorities issue a small number of building permits to Palestinians in East Jerusalem annually, compared to a surge in building permits granted to Israeli settlements built on East Jerusalem lands.
Palestinians say that the Israeli occupation forces are working intensively and systematically to Judaize the city, including Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to erase its Arab and Islamic identity.
Israel is accelerating its efforts to impose its control over the occupied West Bank through a policy of demolition, displacement, and settlement expansion, which UN resolutions unanimously declare illegal in the occupied territories.
According to the left-wing Israeli movement Peace Now, which opposes settlements, there are 156 settlements and 224 outposts in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, inhabited by 736,000 Israelis.
47 Palestinian female detainees in occupation prisons
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners Club (a non-governmental organization) said in a statement on Monday that the Israeli occupation authorities are detaining 47 Palestinian women, including a child, in its prisons.
The club explained that "the occupation's prison system continues to escalate its targeting of female prisoners by entrenching a series of crimes and policies of systematic deprivation and denial of their rights, since the beginning of the war of extermination" on October 7, 2023.
He pointed out that "violations have taken an unprecedented turn since the start of the war of extermination, manifested in an escalation of attacks, systematic abuse, and a policy of humiliation, in addition to torture, starvation, medical crimes, strip searches, and detention in cells that lack even the most basic sanitary conditions."
The Prisoners' Club stated that the Israeli occupation "recently escalated the arrest of women, following a decrease in their numbers following the recent exchange deal." The club stated, "Today, 47 female prisoners are languishing in Israeli prisons, including a child, two five-month-old pregnant women, students, teachers, and sisters of prisoners and martyrs."
He explained that "the majority of female prisoners are detained on the basis of so-called incitement, in addition to eight female prisoners being administratively detained under the pretext of having a 'secret file.'"
The statement said that the Israeli occupation has arrested approximately 545 Palestinian women since the beginning of the war of extermination.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with full American support, has been waging a genocidal war in Gaza, leaving more than 178,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.
In parallel with the war of extermination in Gaza, the Israeli occupation army and settlers' escalation of attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has resulted in the deaths of at least 972 Palestinians and the injury of approximately 7,000, according to Palestinian data.
