International Middle East Media Center
Palestinian sources reported Monday that five nonviolent protestors, including two women of the International Council of Churches, were wounded after being attacked by fundamentalist Jewish settlers in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood…
Israel’s Ambassador In Washington, Michael Oren, stated that Israel will continue the construction and expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem, and added…
Israeli settlers attacked on Friday Rifqa Al Kurd, 89, and her daughter Nadia, 50, in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in East Jerusalem, the Maan News Agency reported.The attack took place after…
The Israeli Police attacked on Thursday Wadi Hilwa Media Center, in Silwan’s Wadi Hilwa neighborhood, in occupied East Jerusalem, and violently attacked employees and visitors, leading to several injuries, the…
A fundamentalist Jewish group, calling itself Temple Mount & Erez Yisrael Faithful, issued a statement declaring its intention to march towards the Al Aqsa Mosque Thursday to mark the Jewish…
Rabbi Marvin Hier’s Los Angeles-based Museum of Tolerance, part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is building a $150 million branch in Jerusalem. The Museum, whose mission is confronting ‘global anti-Semitism,…
The United States is asking Israel to announce a four-month freeze of settlements activities in East Jerusalem in exchange for pressuring the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas to hold direct…
Member of the Fateh’s Central Committee, Abbas Zaki, reported that senior European official, representatives of the French and Spanish Consulates, will be attending his trial which will be held at…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Monday a 16-year-old child from Jerusalem after claiming that he attempted to stab an Israeli Policeman.The child, a resident of Jerusalem, reportedly carried a knife which…
Local sources reported Monday that clashes took place between Palestinian youths and Israeli policemen near the Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. The clashes erupted after a group of…
After the US administration asked for ‘clarification’ of Israel’s plan to expand settler housing in East Jerusalem on Tuesday, the Israeli government responded with another bold announcement of a settlement…
The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economical Rights (JCCER) reported that the Israeli police handed Wednesday a Palestinian family from East Jerusalem an order to pay 13.000 NIS, demanding family…
Israeli occupation’s Jerusalem Municipality has given final approval to a group of settlers to construct 20 housing units in Sheikh Jarrah. The announcement comes during the visit of Israeli Prime…
Three Israeli Knesset members of the National Union fundamentalist party stated that they intend to tour the yards of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The three, Uri…
The Jerusalem Municipality approved the construction of 20 more units for Jewish settlers in an area near the Shepherd Hotel, in occupied East Jerusalem.The decision came just hours before s…
Hundreds of Arabs, Muslims and British nationals held a protest on Monday evening in the center of the British Capital, London, to protest the visit of Jerusalem Mayor, Nir Barkat,…
The Jerusalem Municipality canceled a meeting that was scheduled for Monday to discuss new construction plans in Abu Ghneim Mountain (Har Homa Settlement), Israeli Army radio reported. The municipality did…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Saturday evening a Palestinian woman and a 14-year-old child, in the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses reported that the soldiers kidnapped Ibtisam…
The District Court in Jerusalem decided to expell 15 Palestinian natives of East Jerusalem out of the city of a period of 15 days, after they were detained by the…
Israel announced on Wednesday the end of its lockdown on East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, which started last Friday. Israeli police say that thousands of troops…
Israel’s TV, Channel 10, reported that Israel announced bids for the construction of 26 additional units for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, especially in Abu Ghneim, and east of the…
At least 38 Palestinians civilians were injured by Israeli police fire on Tuesday during the ongoing clashes in East Jerusalem. Palestinian medical sources reported that most of those injured in…
Clashes were reported on Tuesday morning in several parts of East Jerusalem’s Old City and its surrounding neighborhoods as the Israeli police attacked the areas in question after the residents…
The Arabs48 news website reported that violent clashes took place on Sunday at night between Israeli soldiers, policemen and residents of the Old City of Jerusalem. Clashes were also reported…
Eleven protesters were arrested by Israeli officers are they crackdown of a protest organized by Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Residents along with Israeli and international supporters marched at the Shikh…
Clashes erupted, on Friday afternoon, at Jerusalem’s old city between local youths and Israeli soldiers after the later prevented people for praying.Local sources said that troops station at the entrance…
Palestinian Christian organizations, figures and many other Palestinians from the Jerusalem and the surrounding area have sent a letter on March 4, to the heads of churches in Jerusalem, demanding…
Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, ordered a full siege on Jerusalem and the West Bank starting on Thursday night after night. His decision was made after the Israeli Police warned…
The Israeli police approved a request filed by fundamentalist Jewish settlers who requested to be allowed to hold a protest in Silwan Arab town, in East Jerusalem. The protest is…
Israeli troops detained on Thursday a Palestinian community organizer from his home in East Jerusalem. Eyhab Al Jallad, is a member of the Jerusalem popular committee, a local group that…
The Ir Amim “City of Nations” Israeli peace group reported that the Jerusalem Municipality is currently looking into a plan to build 50.000 homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem.…
Israeli soldiers, undercover forces and policemen attacked and wounded on Monday evening, two Palestinians in Al Bustan neighborhood, in East Jerusalem, and kidnapped several youths. The two wounded residents were…
The United Nation secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, condemned the latest Israeli decision to build 1,600 new settlers homes in East Jerusalem. Ban Ki-moon in his statement said that Israeli settlements…
U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, stated that Israel’s Interior Ministry’s decision to build 1600 homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem undermines the efforts to restart the Middle East peace…
Israeli sources reported Saturday evening that one soldier was mildly wounded during clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian residents at the entrance of the Shufat refugee camp. Clashes were also…
Following Friday prayers, clashes have occurred at both al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem, and Ibrahimi mosque, Hebron.At al-Aqsa, Friday prayers were followed by protest by young men from the city throwing stones…
Israeli Ynet News obtained a video showing fundamentalist Jewish settlers celebrating the memory of terrorist Dr. Baroch Goldstein, and praising his crime that targeted Muslim worshipers at the Ibrahimi mosque…
The Israel controlled Jerusalem municipality announced, on Tuesday, that it will halt its decision of demolition 88 Palestinian owned homes in East Jerusalem. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/mar2010/jerusalem.jpg 300 0) The Israel controlled Jerusalem…
Israeli municipality workers and troops started, on Monday midday, preparation steps to takeover a land owned by a {Palestinian man in East Jerusalem. OSCAILTIMAGE(attachments/mar2010/stopethniccleansing.jpg 300 0) Photo by Active Stills…
At least 13 Palestinian civilians were injured on Sunday by Israeli police and army fire as it crackdown on residents at Jerusalem’s old city.Eyewitnesses reported that five residents were arrested…
Palestinian medical sources in Jerusalem reported on Wednesday at night that several Palestinian residents, including children and women, were wounded in Sheikh Jarrah.All those injured reported unprovoked attacks from Israeli…
The Israeli municipality handed out, on Wednesday, a new wave of demolition orders to Palestinian home owners near Jerusalem’s old city.All the homes that were targeted today are located at…
Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli police in the city of Jerusalem, on Tuesday, during protests.Residents of Jerusalem organized demonstrations at a number of locations in East Jerusalem to protest…
Israeli settlers organization announced, Monday, a plan by the Israeli controlled Jerusalem Municipality to construct 550 new settlers homes in Jerusalem’s east city.According to Ahmed Lebn, a researcher specializing in…
The al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage reported that the Israeli authorities started new excavations under the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The foundation stated that most of…
The Israeli police forces, along with Israeli soldiers, stormed a number of Palestinian neighborhoods, on Monday, to enforce resident to bay taxes.At Shu’fat camp for Palestinian refugees near Jerusalem’s old…
Undercover forces of the Israeli army violently attacked a 17-year-old youth in Abu Dis town, in East Jerusalem, and broke his leg. The youth was transferred to an Israeli hospital…
Tensions continued, on Tuesday, at the Shu’fat refugee camp, East Jerusalem, following yesterday’s clashes and arrests, Ma’an News Agency reported.Hostilities flared between a group of children and the border guards…
A seven-story building constructed by right-wing Israeli settlers on Palestinian land, in East Jerusalem in 2004, is moving toward receiving ‘retroactive approval,’ with the unexpected support of Israel’s Interior Minister,…
Sixty Palestinian civilians were detained by Israeli soldiers, on Monday, during house-to-house raids targeting the Shufat refugee camp in the city of Jerusalem.Local sources said that troops stormed the refugee…
Citing ‘security reasons’ — the ubiquitous and unanswerable catch-all phrase against which it is almost impossible to mount any defense — Israel’s Ministry of the Interior has just issued a…
On Tuesday at dawn, the Israeli police entered the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah to remove the tent owned by al-Gawi family, a Palestinian family evicted from their home.The…
Israeli troops and workers for the Jerusalem municipality raided, on Monday at midday, Palestinian owned homes and shops located at the Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood near Jerusalem’s old city. Residents told…
Following warnings of a forceful crackdown by the Israeli police, this week’s protest in Sheikh Jarrah was attended in volume but remained restrained.Starting at 3pm, on Friday, the non-violent demonstration,…
Fatima al-Dahoudy, a home-owner and resident of East Jerusalem, was fined 20,000 NIS after objecting to a court ruling allowing settlers to live in her home. An additional fine of…
Israeli Police have warned they will forcefully remove activists from Sheikh Jarrah this Friday in an effort to end the weekly protests against Israeli settlers occupying Palestinian homes in the…
Israeli sources reported Wednesday that a Palestinian man from Jerusalem was sentenced by the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem to 10 years and 9 months imprisonment after being “convicted of…
Israeli policemen, and members of the Special Forces, attacked on Friday at night Khalid Daoud Oleyyan, 40, and several members of his family, including his 60-year-old mother. Oleyyan, an employee…
The Israeli prosecution at the Central Court in Jerusalem filed on Thursday an indictment against two Palestinian youths from East Jerusalem, for allegedly planning to attack Israeli soldiers at the…
The Israeli municipality of Jerusalem handed out demolition orders, on Wednesday, to five Palestinian families living in Al-Bustan neighborhood.The families said that municipality employees guarded by Israeli soldiers handed out…
For the first time since Israel illegally shut down Palestinian Authority civil offices in Jerusalem in 2001, the Palestinian Authority held its first meeting with a foreign diplomat. The meeting…
The Committee for Defending the Lands and Structures in Silwan town, in East Jerusalem, reported that the land slide and collapse that took place on Monday morning in the main…
The ongoing illegal Israeli excavations near and under the Al Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding areas, in occupied East Jerusalem, caused on Monday at dawn a collapse in the center…
The Israeli District Court sentenced on Wednesday Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of The Islamic Movement, to nine months after “convicting him of incitement”. Salah was prevented…
Jamal Juma’, co-coordinator of the Stop The Wall campaign was released yesterday evening. Jamal had been arrested on December 16th, 2009 having been called in for questioning previously. He had…
Four new residential buildings in East Jerusalem were approved by the Jerusalem planning and building committing on Monday, the Israeli daily Haaretz reports. The four buildings, which will house a…
The so-called Yesha Council of Settlements organized a protest for the settlers in front of the residence of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and installed an ice structure before breaking…
Israeli soldiers attacked on Tuesday at night four Palestinian workers, broke the legs of three of them and took the fourth to an unknown destination. The attack took place near…
The Israeli settler-led government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party, decided to construct additional 700 homes for Jewish settlers in illegal settlements it considers part of the “Greater…
The Israeli Housing Ministry released hundreds of new bids to construct homes in Settlements around East Jerusalem. The Israeli Channel 10 reported that the Israeli government released three construction bids…
The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ), reported that the Israeli occupation increased its violations against the Palestinians and in Jerusalem by forcing them out of their homes, internally displacing…
The head of the so-called Home Front Command of the Israeli Military, Gen, Yari Golan, decided on Monday to ban Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the…
The Israeli police attacked on Thursday midday a festival organized by Palestinians in Jerusalem old city. The festival was organized by the Palestinians Authority to mark the end of the…
The Aqsa foundation for Waqf and Heritage has revealed large scale Israeli excavations being executed in the area adjacent to the southern wall of Al-Aqsa mosque, the area is also…
In a rowdy march Friday afternoon, dozens of Israeli peace activists marched in solidarity with Palestinian residents who have been forced from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East…
The Israeli Authorities decided to expel seven Palestinians, from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, in East Jerusalem, out of the city for 45 days. The Israeli Police arrested the seven Palestinians following…
The Israeli army claimed it arrested on Wednesday a Palestinian youth carrying explosives while heading to Jerusalem to carry out a bombing.Israeli sources reported that the twenty-year old Palestinian youth…
Foreign Ministers of the European Union declared Tuesday support for dividing Jerusalem to be the capital of both Israel and the future Palestinian State. They said that a solution should…
The Israeli Police in Jerusalem apprehended last month three fundamentalists, including two minors, on suspicion that they stabbed an Arab man in Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem. The news were…
The Land Research Center (LRC) of the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem reported that the Israeli authorities conducted 187 against Jerusalem in November, and demolished 14 Palestinians homes in addition…
Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday that eight Palestinians were wounded by Israeli military fire in Shu’fat refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.Israeli soldiers invaded the camp and fired at protesters who…
The Israeli Authorities in Jerusalem handed Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Committee in Jerusalem, a restriction order preventing him from entering the Al Aqsa Mosque, in East…
Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Nasser Joudah , stated Saturday that the Israeli declaration of a temporary freeze of settlement activities, excluding in Jerusalem, is an insufficient step that does not help…
On Friday afternoon, around 70 Israeli and Palestinian peace activists gathered in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to protest a court order that denies Palestinian owners the right to remain in their…
The Israeli Authorities decided to ban Fateh official, Hatem Abdul-Qader, from the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for six months. The official said he will not respect the decision as…
25 Palestinians families living near Jerusalem city received on Monday at dawn evection orders from the Israeli military. Local sources said that the eviction orders targeted homes located at Siramis,…
The Al Quds Media Center reported that the Israeli government, headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, is planning to build seven large settlements neighborhoods in East Jerusalem.The center added that the Israeli…
Arab member of Knesset, Dr. Ahmad Tibi, stated Thursday that the Jerusalem municipality is planning to construct additional 15.000 housing units for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem. In an interview…
A Palestinian man sustained moderate wounds on Thursday afternoon as an Israeli man stabbed him in Jerusalem. According to the Israeli police report the Israeli man escaped the scene and…
Regardless of the statements of U.S President, Barack Obama, slamming Israel decision to construct 900 units in Gilo illegal settlement, the Israeli government decided to implement a plan to construct…
The Israeli municipality demolished on Wednesday four Palestinian owned homes and offices of a local NGO in East Jerusalem. Seven Palestinians were wounded in Al Bustan neighborhood, when residents tried…
A Democratic State Assemblyman from New York is leading a mission of 50 US citizens through Israeli settlements in the West Bank, encouraging the US citizens to move to the…
A Democratic State Assemblyman from New York is leading a mission of 50 US citizens through Israeli settlements in the West Bank, encouraging the US citizens to move to the…
The Israeli Authorities demolished on Tuesday two Palestinians homes in Beit Hanin and in Wadi kadum, in East Jerusalem. The Beit Hanina house was home to five Palestinians for the…
Israeli sources reported Tuesday that the United States demanded Israel to halt the construction in Gilo settlement, built on Palestinian lands in between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Israel considers Gilo as…
As part of the 3,000 units scheduled to be constructed in the coming months in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, construction has begun in Ras al-Amud, Pisgat Ze’ev and…
Israeli sources reported on Sunday morning that one soldier was mildly wounded during clashes with Palestinian youths near the Qalandia roadblock, north of Jerusalem. The sources added that the soldier…
An Israeli court found on Wednesday Sheikh Ra’ed Salah guilty of assaulting a police officer. Police says Salah, who is a leader in the Islamic movement is Israel, attacked a…
After a Palestinian family was forcibly removed from their home by armed Israeli settlers in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, international and Israeli peace activists have descended on the…
A group of Israeli settlers took over on Tuesday a Palestinian owned house at the Shikh Jarah neighborhood near Jerusalem’s old city. Owner of the house, Rifqa Al Kurd, 85…