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In another Israeli decision that could lead to further tension in Jerusalem, the Israeli authorities decided to bar all Palestinian residents under the age of 45 from entering the Al…
Sheikh Tayseer Al Tamimi, Islamic Supreme Judge and Attalah Hanna, Senior Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church in Palestine, declared yesterday the formation of a joint Islamic-Christian front for…
An Israeli online daily reported on Monday night that the Israeli police have arrested three protesters demanding the release of an Israeli spy. They were arrested after they managed to…
The three-way summit between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert and US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, ended abruptly today with no official statement reported. The meeting…
Palestinian sources reported that Israel increased its military presence around Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Haram Al-Sharif area, also known as the Temple Mount, in the old city of Jerusalem on…
Israeli news reported on Thursday night that Israeli Police Commissioner, Moshe Karadi, said during a security assessment that some 3,000 police and Border Police forces will be deployed on Friday…
On Thursday the Israeli Antiquities Authority, who started demolishing an entrance to the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem last Tuesday, launched online visual coverage of the excavation it is continuing…
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, slammed the Israeli digging near the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. He considers it part of an Israeli plan to…
Israeli forces launched a major abduction campaign in the Old City of Jerusalem and nearby neighborhoods on Tuesday, targeting Palestinians who had participated in demonstrations against the destruction at Al…
Senior Israeli government sources reported on Monday that the planned trilateral US-Israeli and Palestinian summit, next Monday in Jerusalem, will be dominated by deliberations on the Mecca Agreement between Hamas…
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that Israeli soldiers, policemen and border guard units have abducted at least fifty Palestinian residents of Jerusalem and its suburbs.The sources stated that soldiers broke…
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli police abducted six Palestinian civilians on Tuesday morning form several parts of Jerusalem. Three men were taken when police attacked and searched Palestinian homes in…
Israel decided Monday to suspend construction of a new bridge near the Al-Aqsa mosque of Jerusalem, allowing the Israeli public to have their say, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski said. However,…
For the last week, while Israeli forces have been excavating a controversial area around the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, hundreds of schoolchildren have been denied access to education.For the last…
Despite mounting condemnations by many worldwide bodies, Israeli bulldozers continued digging around the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied east Jerusalem. The Israeli cabinet today deemed the excavations ‘necessary’. The decision,…
Several Arab leaders in Israel called on the international community to act against the Israeli digging near the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The leaders said that East Jerusalem is…
Israeli police has abducted a number of Palestinian high school students and injured some others in the old city of Jerusalem on Saturday morning. The school students organized a protest…
At least twenty-thousand Arab residents of Israel, residents of Nazareth city, protested on Friday against the Israeli excavations near the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.The protest took off after Friday…
While Israeli army attacked Friday Muslim worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied east Jerusalem, more criticism has been reported against Israeli digging around the mosque, the third holiest site…
The Israeli army and police attacked the Palestinian worshipers inside the Aqsa mosque in the old city of Jerusalem on Friday. Eyewitnesses stated that massive Israeli forces invaded the main…
On Thursday, Israeli bulldozers continued digging near the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. In the streets, thousands of Palestinians continued their protest against the digging, and the Israeli police is…
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Perets, called Thursday his Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert to reconsider digging by Israeli bulldozers around the Al-Aqsa mosque in the occupied east Jerusalem. Perets expressed concern…
Amidst continued digging by Israeli authorities around the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, several world bodies including states and organizations voiced concern over the actions, calling for their immediate halt. The…
The Israeli police in the city of Jerusalem have released Shikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic movement inside the green line, on Thursday morning while controversial demolition near…
On Wednesday Israeli police restricted access to the Al Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem for the second consecutive day while controversial demolition is underway. Only Muslim men…
The Israeli department of archeology continued on Wednesday morning to bulldoze the Mugarbi road leading to the Al Aqsa mosque in the old city of Jerusalem. Palestinians living in Israel…
In the wake of the controversial demolition work which is being carried out by Israeli authorities near the holy Al Aqsa Mosque on Tuesday, Palestinian youths are taking to the…
On Tuesday Israeli bulldozers moved towards the al-Maghareba (Moroccan) gate of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s old city and started demolishing parts of a mound covering a walkway. Security guards…
Chief Palestinian Islamic Justice, Sheikh Taysir Tamimi is calling for massive participation in protest on Sunday to defend Al Aqsa Mosque. The Muslim holy site is under major duress as…
Palestinian sources reported that an undercover Israeli army force has abducted one Palestinian man from the town of Aizariya east of Jerusalem on Saturday. Issa Al Khatip, 31, was stopped…
On Friday morning Israeli forces invaded the village of Abu Dees to the east of Jerusalem city, searched houses and abducted three Palestinian youths. Local sources identified the three as…
Israeli army troops shot and killed a Palestinian boy near Qalandia checkpoint located between the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Jerusalem on Thursday at midday. Tahha Qiljawi, 17, sustained…
Israeli army troops shot and killed a Palestinian civilian at Qalandia checkpoint located between the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Jerusalem on Thursday at midday. Army sources claimed that…
After demolishing three homes in East Jerusalem's Azaria, At Tur and Issawiya Tuesday, Israeli forces continued into the evening. Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality bulldozers destroyed two more Palestinian homes in At…
Israeli bulldozers demolished one house in Issawiya, a Palestinian neighborhood in northeast Jerusalem, and another in Ras a-Baba (The Pope's Hill) in Eizariya. The second home is located near the…
Israeli authorities are carrying out a process in East Jerusalem that can accurately be described as ethnic cleansing. It is plainly geared to uproot Palestinians from an area that historically…
Ali Rumi, 31, was beaten up by Israeli soldiers on Friday morning while he was trying to cross a military checkpoint near Jerusalem. Rumi stated that soldiers stopped his car,…
Palestinian sources reported on Wednesday at night that Israeli settlers abducted a youth from Hizma village, northeast of Jerusalem, severly punched and clubbed him and cut him with blades until…
Family of Abeer Al Arameen, a ten-year old Palestinian girl killed by the Israeli army in Anata town, north east of Jerusalem, demanded the Israeli army to conduct a probe…
Israeli police forces arrested a 16 year old Palestinian boy in the old city of Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, after he was hit and abused by an Israeli settler. …
The Palestine News Network reported on Tuesday evening that Israeli bulldozers belonging to the Jerusalem Municipality demolished two Palestinian homes in Al Sawahra Al Sharqiyya town, east of Jerusalem after…
Abdel Halim lives as a prisoner, within dark rooms that sun does not reach, behind bars and high walls. But this is not a prison, it is an Israeli military…
The current Israeli Prime Minister and former Mayor of Jerusalem is achieving his dream to further Judaize the Palestinian capital. Ehud Olmert has granted a license for a Jewish synagogue…
Palestinian sources in Jerusalem reported on Monday that the Israeli police and intelligence services broke into the Al Maqassed Islamic Hospital east of the city during a celebration marking the…
An Israeli army force invaded the village of Al Ezariya to the east of Jerusalem and abducted one Palestinian man on Monday morning. Soldiers attacked and searched the home…
The Islamic Movement in Israel, headed by member of Knesset Ibrahim Sarsour, said on Sunday that Israel is still digging and carrying out excavations under the Al Aqsa Mosque in…
Javier Solana, EU Foreign Policy Chief, toured several Arab towns near Jerusalem on Sunday and said that he is shocked by the Israeli settlement growth in the occupied West Bank.…
Abeer Aramin was hit in the head by an Israeli Forces gas bomb as she left her school in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning;she was declared clinically dead in hospital this…
The Israeli border police attack and injure a Palestinian worker in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. Mohamed Rabai'ah, 18, sustained bone fractures and cuts after an Israeli border police force…
At the first glance it might be part of the Israeli settlement along the Green Line in the northwestern West Bank, with the wall beside seven graves and a mosque…
Palestinian sources in the occupied East Jerusalem reported on Monday that the Jerusalem Municipality demolished one Palestinian house in Jerusalem after claiming that it was illegally constructed; the municipality intends…
The Israeli municipality of occupied East Jerusalem has completed the construction of a Synagogue on an Islamic WAQF land in the holy city, just 50 meters away from the Al-Aqsa…
Residents of occupied East Jerusalem's Old City are requesting international assistance as Israeli forces move forward with plans to build a Jewish Synagogue in the heart of the Palestinian area.…
The Israeli army bulldozers demolished one Palestinian house in Shu'fat refugee camp in Jerusalem city on Wednesday midday. Israeli soldiers and police surrounded the camp and closed it totally while…
The Israeli army bulldozers demolished a Palestinian house in Shu'fat refugee camp in Jerusalem city on Wednesday midday. Israeli soldiers and police surrounded the camp and closed it totally while…
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, met on Saturday at Olmert’s residence in Jerusalem and agreed that Israel would transfer $100 million of Tax revenue…
Israeli sources reported on Wednesday evening that an Israeli security guard was stabbed in his neck and suffered serious wounds at the Qalandia checkpoint area, north of Jerusalem. Troops detained…
The Israeli High Court rejected on Wednesday an appeal filed by residents of Al Ram neighborhood, in Jerusalem, against the construction of the Annexation Wall around the norther Jerusalem neighborhood.…
The Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights (BADIL) conducted a study that revealed that 17% of the Palestinian families in Jerusalem were forced to relocate outside the borders…
The coalition of civil institutions to defend the rights of Jerusalemites said that the Israeli authorities occupying Jerusalem continue to commit grave breaches to the International Law. The violations include…
Palestinian sources in Jerusalem reported on Tuesday that Israeli policemen and border-guard units leveled two Palestinian homes in Al Tour and Ras Al Amoud, in East Jerusalem. Israel claims that…
Friday evening, a group of setter youth hurled stones at an UNRWA bus as it was driving in a Jewish street in Jerusalem; damage no the vehicle was reported, no…
Following an earlier meeting with the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, U.S Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, met in Jerusalem with the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem. The Israeli…
Israel has been accused of placing a number of landmines in its invasion of southern Lebanon this summer, in addition to leaving behind one million unexploded cluster bomblets. The accusation…
An expanded panel of the Israeli High Court of Justice, headed by Justice Aharon Barak, rejected on Sunday petitions against the route of the Annexation Wall near the village of…
Israeli forces invaded the village of Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem on Tuesday morning and took prisoner four children. Several border police and intelligence jeeps stormed the Palestinian village of…
Israeli forces reportedly discovered a man carrying a ready-to-use explosives belt in Tzahal Square in Jerusalem. Israel Radio reported on Thursday, that the man, identified as Ashraf Hanani, 25, belonged…
Israeli Authorities plan to annex Palestinians lands in Anata town, north of Jerusalem, for the construction of the Annexation Wall and for “military purposes”. The decision (T -06/84) states that…
Israeli police detained about 30 gay pride activists in Jerusalem Friday for secretly planning a parade in violation of an earlier decision agreed upon by police and parade organizers to…
Israeli army officers closed the old city area of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to Palestinian worshipers whose ages are less than 45 on Friday. There is a strong presence…
The Israeli forces took one resident prisoner from Abu Dis town, east of Jerusalem during a Friday morning invasion. Local sources reported that members of the Israeli secret police Shin-Bit…
The Israeli forces invaded the village of Al Sawahra Al Sharkia, south of Jerusalem on Thursday and took prisoner one resident. Troops attacked the houses of Jameel Ja'fa in the…
Palestinians inside the Green Line are holding a nonviolent sit-in throughout Tuesday in protest of the Israeli decision to build a Jewish museum on the ruins of an Islamic cemetery,…
The Al Aqsa Foundation for Protecting Islamic Holy Sites reported on Thursday morning that under-cover forces of the Israeli army detained dozens of school students in Jerusalem as they were…
Israeli police and army officers attacked Palestinian protesters who were protesting peacefully Thursday morning against the massacre in Beit Hanoun, which killed 20 civilians Wednesday. The protest, organized by the…
In a shocking revelation, given headline coverage in a British newspaper, The Independent, it is revealed that there is evidence to suggest that Israel was using uranium based weapons when…
The Israeli forces took prisoner five residents from the town of Abu Deis near Jerusalem on Thursday morning. Troops and police officers stormed the town and searched and ransacked residents'…
Thousands of Palestinian Muslims flocked to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem today to celebrate Lailat al-Qadr, one of the holiest days in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. They were…
Palestinians protested restrictions on West Bank residents not allowed to enter Israel to pray at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem for Friday prayers. Friday morning hundreds of Palestinians gathered…
More than 5,000 Evangelical Christian Zionists from different nationalities marched in Jerusalem to voice their support to Zionism and the state of Israel. The event was organized by the International…
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Skeikh Mohammad Hussein Khateeb, warned that any attack by extremist Jewish groups against the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem could lead the…
Palestinian sources reported on Friday that Israeli soldiers and policemen barred hundreds of Palestinians from reaching the Al Aqsa Mosque for Friday prayers, marking the second Friday of the Muslim…
The Israeli Police in Jerusalem arrested on Thursday a Jerusalem Rabbi suspected of threatening a terrorist attack against the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported. …
Islamic leaders, including Chief Justice Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi, are expressing deep concern over the Israeli government excavation of a new tunnel near the Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem’s…
Following on a statement by an Israeli commander that the Israeli army fired at least 1.2 million cluster bomblets on Lebanon during the war, the majority of which were fired…
Israeli soldiers in al-Ram neighborhood at the edge of occupied Jerusalem opened fire at West Bank Palestinians trying to enter Jerusalem to attend the Friday prayers at the Aqsa Mosque.…
According to the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Cell (UNMACC) on-the-ground assessments, Up to 100,000 unexploded cluster bomblets remain in south Lebanon and must be defused and destroyed. Most of…
Hezbollah Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah did not expect that Hezbollah’s capture of two Israeli soldiers would lead to a war, he stated on Sunday in an interview with Lebanon's New…
The European Union (EU) has agreed to commit more than 7000 troops to South Lebanon, as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission between Israel and Lebanon. UN Secretary General,…
France, which led calls for a robust international force to safeguard the United Nations (UN) ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, has agreed to send up to 7,000 soldiers to Lebanon,…
According to an article published in The New York Times on Thursday, The State Department is investigating whether Israel’s use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements…
The Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, urged those who had titles deeds to land in Shebaa Farms, to quickly compile them before a visit next week by UN Secretary General…
Unexploded Israeli cluster bombs, some dating back to the Vietnam war era, are exacting an increasing toll on Lebanese civilians returning home, the UN and human rights groups say. …
The UN Development Agency has reported that Lebanon’s 15-year economic and social recovery from civil war was wiped out in the recent Israeli offensive against Hezbollah. As well, a report…
Echoing an earlier appeal from U.N. deputy humanitarian chief Margareta Wahlstrom, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that Israel must immediately lift its air and sea blockade on Lebanon so hundreds…
Several funeral ceremonies were held on Friday as Southern Lebanese buried at least 250 people killed by Israeli air strikes during its war with Hezbollah. "This is the day to…
Israel warplanes and helicopters hit unidentified targets early Saturday morning near the Lebanese village of Bodai, west of the city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley. Israeli commandoes aboard helicopters…
In addition to the 2,000 soldiers stationed in southern Lebanon as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL – in place since 1978), 3,500 new United Nations…