JERUSALEM — Born and raised in East Jerusalem’s restive Silwan neighborhood, the community activist Daoud al-Ghoul is no stranger to the capricious nature of life under military occupation.

Like most Palestinians in East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in 1967, the 31-year-old is accustomed to unequal housing and planning rights, neglected infrastructure and the slow but steady expansion of Israeli settlers, and with them violence, in the heart of Palestinian neighborhoods. Nonetheless, Ghoul, who works as a youth programs coordinator with the Health Work Committees, a Jerusalem-based nongovernmental organization, said his deportation came as a complete surprise.

On Dec. 2, Israeli police notified Ghoul that he had been barred from Jerusalem’s Old City, the walled area containing the Haram al-Sharif, referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount, now the site of near-daily clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces. He was then summoned to a police station and told that he was banned from the entire city of Jerusalem until April 13, 2015.

Israeli authorities have since issued orders to exile four other community activists from East Jerusalem. Majd Darwish and Salih Dirbas are from al-Issawiya, a neighborhood opposite a large Israeli settlement bloc in the northeast of the city that Israel regularly closes off with concrete blocks during tensions. Akram al-Shurafa and Faris Abu Ghannam are from the al-Tur neighborhood, the site of intense clashes in November after a local Palestinian bus driver was found hanged in the Israeli bus he drove.