Category: Jerusalem

The Lebanese army and the UN are preparing for the deployment of troops to the south of the Litani River, in an attempt to enforce the cessation of hostilities between…

As a massive exodus of Lebanese refugees began the journey home, a joint statement released by the UN and the Lebanese government "urged the population to exercise extreme caution, due…

"The food and security situation in Gaza is catastrophic," said Mario Carera, head of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) for Gaza and the West Bank.  The SDC,…

The day before the Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement indicating that there is nothing illegal about Israel’s use of cluster bombs, the Israeli Ambassador to Washington claimed that Israel…

Eleven people were killed and 11 wounded when Israeli warplanes bombed northern Lebanon Friday morning, AlJazeera reported. At the same time, at the UN headquarters in New York, Russia proposed…

An attempt to draft a revised UN Resolution of the Lebanon/Israeli conflict failed yesterday, when the United States refused to consider  France’s revisions to the original draft.   The crux…

An attempt to draft a revised UN Resolution of the Lebanon/Israeli conflict failed yesterday, when the United States refused to consider  France’s revisions to the original draft. The crux of…

As the sun baked the densely populated camp, young children carrying empty plastic bottles and cooking pots chased a United Nations truck transporting drinking water to schools which had been…

An Israeli strike on the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain Al Hilweh kills at least one person and wounds 15, including 5 children, early Wednesday, AlJazeera reported. According to Palestinian…

Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz told Haaretz Tuesday that Israel would not hold back because of diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis.  Israel is prepared to do whatever it takes…

The Jerusalem Center for Democracy and Human Rights issued its report for the month of July on Israeli violations in the Governorate of Occupied Jerusalem. A sample of the report…

Lawyers for leftist activist Abraham Tsarfati, author Amran al-Malich and human rights group official Zion Asidon filed a petition against Peretz, a Moroccan-born Israeli, to Rabat’s high court. They say…

Southern Lebanon faces dire drinking water and fuel shortages which threaten the outbreak of epidemics if keeps up attacks on the country, a senior U.N. official warned on Friday.  …

Israel’s bombings on Friday have created a nightmare for international and UN agencies trying to deliver supplies to Lebanese refugees in villages. The bombings have prevented evacuations from the country…

Three prominent Jewish Moroccans, a leftist activist, an author and a human rights official, have submitted a petition to the Moroccan high court in Rabat. The petition accuses the Moroccan-born…

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An Israeli police sources in Jerusalem, reported that the police announced on Wednesday that the Al Aqsa Mosque will be closed to non-Muslim visitors on Thursday. Yet, any Muslim man…

The fires continued to burn this week at a seaside power plant, the source of 15,000 tons of heavy fuel oil that spilled into pristine Mediterranean waters after an Israeli…

Top Islamic leaders, including Chief Islamic Justice Sheikh Taysir Al Tamimi, are meeting in Jerusalem today to discuss yesterday’s decision by the Israeli Supreme Court to allow members of Jewish…

Israeli police, who control the entry to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, have been preventing anyone under 40 years old from praying on Thursday and Friday, today firing tear gas…

A Israeli policemen from the border guards division shot and killed a Palestinian resident in east Jerusalem Thursday night, Israeli police in Jerusalem reported. The police claim the resident opened…

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is calling for a full investigation by the Israeli Military Attorney’s office after their independent investigation revealed the Israeli Army illegally targeted the civilian…

56 British Members of Parliament called for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East on Wednesday, calling the Israel military strikes on Lebanese civilians "immoral." The Members of Parliament released…

In an interview on Monday with IRIN, UN’s Emergency Relief Co-ordinator Jan Egeland, reported that the people of Lebanon are facing their “greatest hour of need.” In response to the…

As the dual Israeli invasions of Lebanon and Palestine continue unabated, local and international journalists covering the conflict have been affected by orders from the Israeli military censor’s office not…

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah stated on Monday that Israel’s ground invasion into South Lebanon will not prevent Hezbollah from firing rockets into Northern Israel. Israel’s declared goal, of ending…

Demonstrations were held in major cities across the world on Saturday, as part of an international call of solidarity against Israeli aggression in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. The biggest…

The Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, along with two Arab members in the Israeli parliament, have called upon the Arab and Muslim community to stand up to…

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Israeli aircrafts hit central Beirut for the first time since the conflict broke out one week ago and continued air raids in southern Lebanon have killed dozens and caused wide-spread…

American Muslims have criticised the US government for its reluctance to condemn Israel, as they worry about countless relatives and friends trapped in Lebanon. US officials have said Israel "has…

United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said he expects European countries to contribute troops to expand the current 2,000- member UN force in southern Lebanon, and has called on "countries…

The Israeli Prime Minister told United Nations envoys, trying to broker a ceasefire, that its offensive would continue until Hezbollah releases its two soldiers and rocket attacks end. "Israel will…

Israeli air strikes targeting the north and east suburbs of Beirut have killed at least 29 people Tuesday, raising the deathtoll to more than 254 Lebanese since the Israeli offensive…

Israeli ‘s army deputy chief of staff, Major-General Moshe Kaplinsky, said Wednesday that Israel has not ruled out deploying "massive ground forces" in the country, Al Jazeera TV reported."At this…

Walid al-Umari, the Arab satellite channel’s bureau chief in the Palestinian Territories, was arrested Monday by Israeli policemen, the pan-Arab television station reported.   Al-Umari has been arrested twice in…

At least 140 Lebanese have been killed in five straight days of Israeli bombardments and air strikes, with the vast majority of those killed civilians and children, the Lebanese Daily…

A statement by Christian leaders issued Saturday stated, "Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter. Truth…

Thursday morning Israeli army will charge the Ministers and Parliament Members with the affiliation with the Hamas movement in military courts in both detentions of Salem near the West Bank…

The Israeli Archeology department decided to destroy one of the gates in the Jerusalem old wall, which leads to the Aqsa mosque yards, in the old city, media reports said…

The Al Quds Centre for Social-Economic Rights condemned on Friday the decision by the Israeli Interior Minister Ronny Bar-On to revoke the Jerusalem residency of four top Hamas officials.  …

An Israeli police source reported on Wednesday that a group of 50 Christian tourists, said to be pro-Israel, were attacked by some 100 extreme ultra-orthodox Jews living in the Mea…

The Israeli Newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that the Jerusalem Municipality is planning to construct houses, a huge parking lot, Mall and a hotel in what is known as the…

Israeli forces shot young Palestinian men in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of East Jerusalem Wednesday. According to eyewitnesses, the officers came to the house escorted by the police to collect…

The Palestinian government, headed by the Hamas party, denounced Israel’s arrest of Aziz Kayed, deputy secretary of the Palestinian cabinet, after breaking into his home in Al Biereh city, near…

Four Palestinian legislators, including the cabinet minister of Jerusalem affairs, Khaled Abu Arafa, refused an ultimatum issued on Monday by Israeli Interior Minister, Ronnie Bar-On, to quit their parliamentary posts…

Palestinian chief justice Sheikh Tayseer Al-Tamimi has scathingly condemned the most recent invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third most holy site in Islam, by Jewish extremists protected by Israeli…

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat Thursday denounced a decision of Israeli police to allow extremist Jews to enter the al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem, the third-holiest site in Islam, and…

Two Palestinian girls, students of the Anata secondary school in East Jerusalem, were injured Thursday when Israeli troops fired tear gas canisters at schoolgirls and their parents who were gathered…

Israeli bulldozers leveled on Tuesday morning one Palestinian house in Beit Hanina neighborhood, in Jerusalem after claiming that the house was illegally constructed seven years ago. Another house was leveled…

As Greek Orthodox Palestinian Christians were celebrating the Holy Saturday in Jerusalem, Israeli policemen attacked dozens of worshipers and priests near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and at the…

Four Arab members of the Israeli Knesset met Wednesday with Hamas legislators in East Jerusalem, a move which was seen as showing support to the Hamas members of parliament after…

The Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem affairs in the Hamas-led Palestinian cabinet, Khaled Abu Arafa, was detained on Tuesday by Israeli police at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Abu…

The Israeli government decided Tuesday to revoke the Jerusalem residency rights of four Hamas members of the Palestinian Legislative Council in response to Monday’s suicide bombing that killed nine Israelis…

The Israeli government decided Tuesday to revoke the Jerusalem residency rights of four Hamas members of the Palestinian Legislative Council in response to Monday’s suicide bombing that killed nine Israelis…

For the second day, Israeli troops broke into Anata Secondary School for Boys, and Salah Ed Deen Elementary School in Anata, north of Jerusalem, and detained dozens of students. Head…

The General Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Ikrema Sabri, said that Israeli occupation authorities are secretly building a synagogue under the holy Al- Aqsa Mosque. Sheikh Sabri said that…

Israel’s Shin Bet Security Services detained on Thursday the Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Khaled Abu Arafa, as he drove from Jerusalem to Al Ezariyya town, east of the city.…

After two home demolitions last week in the village of Al Walaja, near Bethlehem, the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign issued a call for citizens and civil society groups to…

On Wednesday morning, Israeli Forces attacked many Palestinians and demolished two houses in Wallaja village, west of the city of Beit Jala.  A number of Palestinians were injured. The soldiers,…

Amid the chaos of the Israeli army’s abduction of Palestinian member of parliament and Secretary General of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Sa’dat (among…

Israeli construction companies, with support from Israeli armed forces, have resumed digging underneath the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, apparently in a bid to undermine the foundations of the ancient mosque…

A conference scheduled Thursday morning in East Jerusalem to plan a Palestinian civil society response to the Israeli seizure of East Jerusalem was attacked by Israeli forces, and speakers, Palestinian…

Sunday night was a horrible night for fourteen year old Hamza Fawzi Iweida. He was beaten, abducted, tied to a chair and insulted, after being asked for his identity card…

The Israeli police in Jerusalem released Ahmad Attoun, a newly elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) from the Hamas bloc, after detaining him for three hours.Attoun was arrested…

The Palestinian Maan News Agency reported that the Israeli Police in Jerusalem arrested Palestinian Legislative Council member Ahamad Attoun, member of Hamas, while heading to meet other PLC members of…

Israeli military bulldozers leveled on Tuesday a Palestinian house and a farm in Beit Iksa village, north west of Jerusalem. Army claims that the two constructions were built without obtaining…

The Palestinian People Party (PPP) announced on Friday that an Israeli court in Jerusalem accused Bassam Salhi, secretary general of the leftist PPP, of attacking Israeli soldiers and illegally crossing…

Israeli police released two East Jerusalem Palestinian lawmakers after detaining them for few hours in Talbiot investigation centre. Israeli Police arrests two Hamas legislators in Jerusalem Saed Bannoura-IMEMC & Agenices,…

An Israeli military source in Jerusalem reported that soldiers arrested a Palestinian woman from Bethlehem after she attempted to stab an Israeli soldier  in Jerusalem.The source claimed that the woman…

Ikrama al-Sabri, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories, issued a desperate plea Thursday to Israeli Authorities to stop the desecration of Jerusalem’s oldest Muslim cemetery by the…

On Friday afternoon, hundreds of Palestinian residents protested in the main yard of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, against the controversial cartoon printed in a Danish newspaper two weeks…

The Tel Aviv District Court, headed by Judge Boaz Okun, issued on Monday a ground breaking ruling stating that the Israeli Absentee Property Law can not be applied either on…

Israeli police arrested on Sunday afternoon, Mohammad Totah, Hamas candidate in Jerusalem after participating in a debate on elections, organized by the Network of Nongovernmental Organization in Jerusalem. Candidates of…

Israeli media source reported on Saturday that senior officials of the Labor Party announced the party platform which includes the willingness to give up East Jerusalem Arab neighborhoods for a…

According to the Israeli online daily Haaretz, an Israeli construction company is attracting dozens of wealthy American Israelis to purchase apartments in Nof Zion Israeli illegal outpost in the southeast…

After a 45-minute-meeting with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, Shimon Peres said, on Wednesday, that Israel will be ready to hold negotiations with the Palestinians on a permanent peace…

After a 45-minutes meeting with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, Shimon Peres said, on Wednesday, that Israel will be ready to hold negotiations with the Palestinians on a permanent…

According to a study published, on Thursday, in the Israeli online daily Haaretz, more ore than half of the Israelis are willing to give up East Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhoods and…

Israeli police arrested, on Wednesday, Abdul-Latif Shihada, a parliamentary candidate of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while he was holding a press conference at a hotel in East…

As the sunset of Sunday January 15th, religious leaders from Jerusalem, Central Israel, and the Galilee gathered in the Arab city of Rama. Over 200 Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Druze…

The Israeli government approved on Sunday the participation of Jerusalemite Palestinians in the legislative elections scheduled for January 25, but did not authorize Hamas movement to campaign in the city.…

The Maan News Agency reported that Israeli soldiers arrested, on Sunday, three Hamas candidates in the Old City of Jerusalem. The agency stated that soldiers arrested Mohammad Abu Tair, Mohammad…

Palestinian Foreign Minister, Nasser Al Qidwa, said that the Palestinian Authority will cancel the legislative elections if Israel conducts acts to obstruct them in east Jerusalem. Al Qidwa said in…

Likud ministers are expected to submit their resignations from the coalition government on Thursday, Israeli V Channel 2 reported, on Wednesday. Channel Two reported that Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu had…

Israeli acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said on Tuesday that the cabinet will decide next week whether to allow the Palestinian in East Jerusalem to vote in the upcoming Palestinian…

Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, said on Tuesday that the Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem will be allowed to participate in the upcoming Palestinian Legislative elections scheduled for January 25,…

Israeli online daily Haaretz reported on Monday that the Police Investigation Department (PID) filed an indictment against a Border Police officer accused of killing a Palestinian in the French Hill…

An Israeli military source reported, on Thursday evening, that one settler was stabbed by a Palestinian while waiting at a bus stop in Atarot industrial zone, near Jerusalem; the stabber…

The Israeli high court issued, on Wednesday, an order instructing the army to halt the construction in a section of the Separation Wall that extends from Maaleh Adumim Settlement bloc…

The Israeli police in Jerusalem released Sheikh Taiseer Tameemy, head of the Islamic Religious Court, and Chief Islamic Clerk, after arresting him in Jerusalem and interrogating him for several hours.…

Former Labor party leader, Shimon Peres, said on Saturday during a press conference with Indian reporters, that Jerusalem will remain the united capital of Israel, forever, but will be “’open…

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth conducted a poll which revealed that half if the Israeli public support dividing Jerusalem in the framework of a peace deal with the Palestinians. The joint…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, stated on Wednesday evening that Jerusalem will remain the undivided capital of Israel. The statements of Sharon came at a conference held by Or Yarok…

Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, issued an official statement, on Tuesday at night, denying reports that he would agree to a compromise on Jerusalem and the establishment of a Palestinian…

The European Union decided on Monday not to publish a report which includes critical information on Israeli settlement activities in East Jerusalem, and on the route of the Separation Wall…

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported, on Monday morning, that the Israeli government has formulated a plan for a train that will run from the cities of Lod, north of Israel,…

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported, on Monday morning, that the Israeli government has formulated a plan for a train that will run from the cities of Lod, north of Israel,…

An Israeli medical source at the Magen David Admom reported on Friday evening, that a Jewish ultra-Orthodox teen was stabbed in east Jerusalem apparently by two Arab residents. The source…

Israeli police shot and killed one Palestinian resident in Al Esawiyya town, east of Jerusalem after firing at him while he was driving his car in the town. The Israeli…