Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers, under police protection, desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning and later in the afternoon, The Palestinian Information Centre reports. According to local sources, 288 settlers entered the Mosque in different groups through its Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards under tight police guard.[…]
Residents of the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem have accused the Israeli army of employing a policy of “collective punishment” after a marked increase in punitive measures against them in recent days. Shuafat on Sunday witnessed a day of protests and civil disobedience in response to a crackdown on residents that[…]
In the darkness that the nation is living through, and in the nightmare of normalisation, a light emanates from within the darkness, from Palestine, as usual and, specifically, from Jerusalem and the West Bank. It was Khairi Alqam who carried the torch this time, the young Jerusalemite who is barely[…]
Israeli occupation forces detained the Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, as he entered the Noble Sanctuary on Tuesday. He was humiliated and searched before being allowed to enter the Islamic holy site. Last week, the Israeli occupation forces delayed Britain’s Minister for the Middle East, Lord Tariq Ahmad,[…]
INTERNATIONAL A 22-year-old Palestinian-American woman has been released after having been detained by Israeli authorities since Friday for attempting to enter Jerusalem from Ramallah, her family said. Prior to her release, Hala Kasim Salameh’s family said they had very little information about her condition and that she had only been able to[…]
INTERNATIONAL lestine on Sunday warned the upcoming Israeli government against changing the status quo in occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu reports. Extremist politician Itamar Ben-Gvir will be Israel’s national security minister in the upcoming government under a coalition agreement struck with Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. “The Netanyahu-Ben-Gvir deal gives him massive powers to practice his[…]
INTERNATIONAL At least one person was killed and 22 people wounded after two explosions hit entrances to Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, Israeli police said. At around 7am local time, an explosive device detonated at a bus stop in Givat Shaul, wounding at least 12 people, one of who succumbed to injuries later[…]
INTERNATIONAL British officials considered it inevitable that Jerusalem would one day become Israel’s capital and identified land for use as a future embassy in the city from the 1950s, UK government records seen by Middle East Eye reveal. Documents detailing negotiations between the UK and Israeli governments over the transfer of British-held assets dating[…]
INTERNATIONAL Osama al-Shaheen, a member of the Kuwaiti parliament, has urged British Prime Minister Liz Truss not to move the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In an interview with Middle East Eye, he warned that such a move could scupper the free trade agreement between the UK and the six countries of the Gulf[…]
Protests and strikes spread from Jerusalem to the rest of the West Bank in response to growing Israeli closures and crackdowns. Israeli forces killed a Palestinian on Wednesday as hundreds of people observed a day of civil disobedience in solidarity with a Jerusalem refugee camp that has been under Israeli lockdown for five[…]
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