This morning Israeli forces demolished the home of Khaled Muhammad al Khalis in the Ein al Lozeh neighborhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem. This is the same neighborhood where, six days ago, we reported that Israeli forces patrolled and raided homes, taking photos as they did so.

These acts of violence and harassment are not the ubiquitous experience of all Jerusalem residents, Jewish and Muslim or Christian alike—rather, they are the ubiquitous experience of Palestinians living under Israeli rule. The police in East Jerusalem have the same function as the military across areas C: for them, as it is under all settler regimes, upholding law and order means furthering settler-colonialism, not equity and justice.