Planned Informality as a by-product of the occupation.The case of Kufr Aqab neighborhood in Jerusalem North

The paper examines the planned mechanisms that the State of Israel is practicing on the Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, through displacing them into residual spaces. It will approach the discourse through presenting thepolicies imposed on Palestinians, and shall expand to focus on the spatial by-products of such executions. The casestudy is Kufr Aqab, which is the northernmost neighbourhood in Jerusalem, has been detached by the rest of Jerusalem through the separation wall and a military border crossing. Such apparatus has rendered Kufr Aqab as aspace of legal and civil exception and an insecure setting between two hyper-secure environments. It seeks tocontribute to the debate over informality via the Kufr Aqab case study.