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Israeli online daily Haaretz reported that, Irwin Moskowitz, a Jewish millionaire is behind the project which aims to construct a Jewish neighborhood in the Arab Sheikh Jarrah area, east of…
Israeli Peace Now movement announced a new initiative on Wednesday calling the Israeli government to withdraw from 26 West Bank settlements which are relatively isolated within large concentration of Palestinian…
Israeli police in the West Bank arrested a 32-year-old settler suspected of throwing stones, on Friday at night, at an Israeli army officer and his family at the Western Wall…
Dozens of extremist settlers stormed, on Wednesday, the esplanade of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. The guards of the Mosque, who clashed with that an…
The Israeli police rejected a request filed by an Israeli extremist group which calls it self “Temple Mount Trustees” to enter Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Tuesday, during the…
After the announcement of a huge settlement project linking Maali Adumim settlement with Jerusalem, thus blocking geographical unity between the Palestinian areas, Israel said if gave the American administration commitments…
A local source in Jerusalem reported that Israeli Border Guards policemen and agents of the Israeli security broke into a residential building in al Suwwana neighborhood in Jerusalem, and arrested…
An extremist settler group attacked, on Thursday, dozens of Palestinian residents and stores near Al Aqsa Mosque area, in the old city of Jerusalem, a local source reported. The settlers,…
A British Yeshiva student died of wounds sustained as he was stabbed in a knife in the old city of Jerusalem, an Israeli medical source said on Wednesday at night. The…
Extremist Jewish groups started recently a media campaign calling for leveling Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as a “compensation for evacuating the settlements in the Gaza Stripâ€Â. Al Aqsa Foundation…
The synod, the highest body in the Greek Orthodox Church, on Monday has elected a new Patriarch to succeed former Patriarch Irineos I, who was dismissed over selling church property…
The Israeli Police said on Saturday that it will restrict entry of Muslims to al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Sunday. The decision was made in order to allow Jewish worshipers…
The Israeli police barred recently several Arab residents of Jerusalem from entering al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The WAFA news agency reported that the Israeli police handed the residents official orders…
A group of twenty settlers attempted to break into al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Saturday evening, in an attempt to attack a festival for Fourth Al-Aqsa Child Fund; Palestinian mosque…
Israeli soldiers installed an iron fence around the village of Z’ayyeim, east of Jerusalem completely separating it from the city. Omar Sbeih, head of Z’ayyeim village council, reported that the…
The Jordanian Minister of Interior Awni Yerfas announced on Sunday that he has received a list of candidates succeed the dismissed Patriarch Irineos I to the Jerusalem Patriarch post. The list…
Irineos I, the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem who is fighting efforts to remove him from the position, entered the Patriarchate compound in Jerusalem on Wednesday, accompanied with a group…
The Israeli army leveled on Tuesday two Palestinian homes in al-lousa area in Silwan neighborhood, and al-Esawiyya area, east of Jerusalem. The first home, belongs to Samer al-Mandoub, was inhibited…
The Israeli army leveled on Tuesday two Palestinian homes in al-lousa area in Silwan neighborhood, and al-Esawiyya area, east of Jerusalem. The first home, belongs to Samer al-Mandoub, was inhibited…
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem announced its intention to select a new patriarch to replace Irineos I, who was ousted by the church last month. The selection process will…
The Orthodox Church has decided to demote Irineos, its former Patriarch of Jerusalem, to the rank of simple monk. Irineos, who has been accused of selling Church land in the…
Arab MKs boycotted Monday a special meeting of the Knesset plenum held to mark “Jerusalem day” on the 38th anniversary of announcing the unification of the city following the 1967…
Israeli soldiers withdrew from al-Aqsa mosque area on Monday afternoon following clashes with dozens of Palestinian protestors who gathered in the mosque in an attempt to bar extremist settlers groups…
The Israeli Knesset will Wednesday debate an urgent motion filed by MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) about the plan to destroy some 90 houses of Palestinian residents in Jerusalem’s Silwan quarter.…
Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Holy Land unanimously selected on Monday Archbishop Cornelios, the head of the church’s ecclesiastical court, as a temporary replacement for the embattled…
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) reported that Jerusalem Municipality intends to demolish 88 houses in the el-Bustan area of Silwan village in East Jerusalem. The ICAHD revealed in a…
The highest Christian convention of Orthodox Patriarchs decided Tuesday to dismiss Jerusalem Patriarch Irineos I over responsibility for the latest major Jerusalem property deal with Jewish investors. 13 of the…
An attack by extreme-right Jews on Haram Al-Sharif (Temple Mount) would trigger a large-scale war between Israel and the Muslim world, former Shin Bet chief Carmi Gillon told Haaretz on…
Arab Israeli Member of Knesset Jamal Zahalka complained at the office of the Israeli Minister of Finance Benjamin Netanyahu against the ongoing utilization of the Absentees Law in east Jerusalem.…
Israeli Police said Monday that 9 Israeli Jews were arrested, questioned and conditionally released in recent weeks on suspicion of planning an attack on Haram Al-Sharif mosque in Jerusalem. The…
The viscous deal between the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and ‘Jewish investors’ in which major property in Omar Ben Al-Khatab square in Jerusalem was presumably sold, was reportedly made by settler…
The Orthodox sect in Palestine slams the approval of the Palestinian Authority and the Jordanian Government on assigning a deputy Patriarch in Jerusalem. Marwan Tubasi, member of the council for…
Israeli police shut down the East Jerusalem office used by the Palestinian Authority to register Palestinian voters in the city prior to the parliamentary elections set to be held on…
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew recognized dismissal of the Jerusalem Patriarch Irineuos for his involvement in selling the church property in the old city of Jerusalem to Jewish Investors. Patriarch Bartholomew,…
Monday before noon, dozens of residents were injured in the old city of Jerusalem, one seriously, after the army attacked hundreds of residents who gathered in the area. A local…
Dismissed Greek Orthodox Patriach Irinous I returned, under police protection, to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher Friday night. Irinous I managed to enter the church, but most bishops have…
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem sold properties inside the Jaffa Gate to a Jewish company to prove to Israel that he does not sympathize with Palestinians and the PLO,…
{mosimage}Friday afternoon, at least ten Palestinian residents were injured after the Israeli police and soldiers attacked them with clubs in the yard of the church of the Holy Sepulcher in…
{mosimage}Reporter Kliman Lipskind, from Israeli newspaper Ma’areev, revealed Friday the original documents concerning the Jerusalem property deal between the Greek Orthodox Church and Jewish investors, saying the documents will be…
Revava, an extreme right wing Jewish group, continues to publicly call the Jews to destroy the Aqsa Mosque and build the ‘third temple of Solomon’ on top of it. Following…
Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, published in London, revealed information that the Greek government decided to fire the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Irenious the first from his post over…
 Thousands of Palestinians protested on Sunday in Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem against calls by extremist Jewish groups to attack the mosque, Revava extremist group renewed its call to attack…
Israelipolice released Monday Sheikh Hassan Yousif after being detained for few hours for entering Jerusalem without a permit. Israeli Police detain Sheikh Hassan Yousif Israeli police Sunday detained a Hamas…
Israeli sources said that the new plan for Jerusalem, which would cost around $5 Millions, shows territorial contiguity between Jerusalem and the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. this linkage annexes wide…
Against Israeli security and police expectations, tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers peacefully concluded weekly prayers in Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem on Friday. Amid high alerts of a possible attack…
Israeli security raised the level of alert as indicators of plans of extremist Jews attack on Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem increased considerably, Israeli TV Channel 1 reported Wednesday. Extreme right…
Jordan will revoke all powers of attorney given to the Orthodox Church and it will work to cancel the sales deals carried out recently by the Church, Palestinian sources reported…
Marking the anniversary of the killing of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Hamas political leader Khalid Mashal threatened Thursday to attack Israel if it violates the cease-fire.  Mashal,…
A Palestinian collaborator, who worked as a front man for Ateret Cohanim yeshiva – known for its attempts to buy lands from Palestinians – charged the Yeshiva of forging documents…
The former Greek Orthodox Church treasurer Nicolas Papadimos, who fled the country after concluding a deal selling major church property in Jerusalem to Jewish investors, told Tuesday a Greek newspaper…
At least thirty bishops and church officials of the Greek  Orthodox church in Jerusalem, demanded Patriarch Irinous to resign immediately and ‘save the church from its crises’ following the scandal…
Thousands of Palestinians from Nazareth area in the upper Galilee took the streets of the city protesting the alleged sales deal though which the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate sold major church…
The General Secretary of the Greek Orthodox Chruch Archbishop Arastachios called Thursdays Patriarch Irinous to resign following the scandal of a ‘viscous’ land bargain in Jerusalem, through which major church…
Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Dahiat Al-Barid, north of Jerusalem and started marking the lands to erect the separation wall in the area. Resident Hamdi, Al-Masrawi, said that the news…
The Palestinian cabinet decided Saturday to for a committee to investigate the selling of Omer Ben Al-Khatab square in East Jerusalem to Jewish investors. Most of the sold property belongs…
Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv revealed in a report published on Friday that the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem secretly sold Omar Ben Al-Khatab square to Jewish investors. The square includes restaurants,…
David Evri, a settler of Tafoah settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, told an illegal Israeli radio station that settlers groups are recruiting thousands of settlers to…
Israeli soldiers arrested on Tuesday afternoon, the chief Islamic judge Sheikh Taiseer Bayyoudh Tamimi, and two of his entourage. The Israeli online daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Sheikh Tamimi was…
The Israeli Knesset discussed on Wednesday the threats against Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after the Shabak and other security devices warned of a possible attack by extremist Jewish groups in…
The Israeli police is demanding an additional NIS 61 million to counter increasingly grave threats of an attack by Jewish extremists on Haram Al_Sharif in Jerusalem. In recent weeks, Israeli…
The Israeli media revealed on Thursday that the Israeli security received lately several warnings that extremist right wing Jewish groups are planning to cary out bombings in Al-Aqsa mosque in…
In a crackdown on Palestinian businesses and individuals, the Israeli police and military have raided offices, shops and restaurants whose owners or employees have ties to the Palestinian Authority (PA).…
Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz announced Monday the government’s decision to confiscate East Jerusalem property owned by Palestinians was made without his knowledge or consent.  Upon the request of…
Israeli Machsom Watch quoted Israeli Binyamin region brigade Commander Col. Mickey Edelstein as confirming that starting in July, East Jerusalem Palestinians will be denied access to Ramallah.  Machsom Watch,…
Palestinians living inside East Jerusalem and surrounding areas said Monday that Israel started using the Absentees property law to grab thousand of dunams of Palestinian owned land in East Jerusalem…
Yahad Chairman Yossi Beilin described Saturday the Israeli government decision to expand the powers of the Custodian of Absentee Property to East Jerusalem as equating stealing property and undemocratic. According…
against harming the Aqsa Mosque especially after the recent threatsIMEMC & Agencies, April 6, 2004 18:15 Al-Aqsa foundation for rebuilding the Islamic Holy Sites, warned against harming the Aqsa Mosque…
Jerusalem’s Old City, as police prevented Muslim males under the ageIMEMC Correspondent Jerusalem, March 26, 2004 At least three people were arrested during brief scuffles outside Jerusalem’s Old City, as…
Al-Quds Center for Civil and Social Rights in Jerusalem said that the Israeli Authorities in Jerusalem took new measures to limit the construction of Palestinian houses in Jerusalem.  The center…
heavy snowfall, a 10-meter-wide section of the embankment’sIMEMC & Agencies, February 16, 2004 19:34 In the early hours of Sunday morning at around 1:00 am, during the heavy snowfall, a…
Starting Thursday morning, Army, police, and security forces tightened the closure around Jerusalem and security measures inside the holy city, especially around Al-Aqsa mosque compound. Thousands of local residents, mostly…
compound and fired tear gas and stun grenades at demonstrators whoIMEMC & Agencies, September 13, 2003 Israeli police stormed Friday afternoon the yard of Al-Aqsa mosque compound and fired tear…
general of the Islamic higher Institute Sheikh Taisir Al-Tamimi andIMEMC & Agencies, September 9, 2003 10:19 Israeli security forces arrested Monday noon time the secretary general of the Islamic higher…
Israeli police detained Islamic Waqf official Mustafa Abu Zahra onCourt Ghassan Andoni – IMEMC & Agencies, August 27, 2003 Israeli police detained Islamic Waqf official Mustafa Abu Zahra on Tuesday…
After a security consultation done by the Israeli Police, theFurious Reactions Among Palestinians IMEMC & Agencies, August 20, 2003 After a security consultation done by the Israeli Police, the Israeli…
Islamic Waqf Manager Adnan Al Husseini denied Monday that anfor Visits IMEMC & Agencies , August 12, 2003 Islamic Waqf Manager Adnan Al Husseini denied Monday that an agreement was…
Haifa neighborhood in Jerusalem. An army source claimed that theSpecial IMEMC July 3, 2003 Israeli army troops demolished the home of Fawzi Abu Rumilah in Beit Haifa neighborhood in Jerusalem.…
Israeli police have begun to allow non-Muslim members of the publicconsent Ghassan Andoni – IMEMC July 01, 2003 Israeli police have begun to allow non-Muslim members of the public to…