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Israeli settlers who stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque yards under Israeli police protection, on Saturday, assaulted a number of Palestinian female worshippers, according to witnesses.Witnesses said that Palestinian worshippers were attacked by…
Israeli police, on Saturday, beefed up their military presence and procedures across Jerusalem, preventing Christians from reaching Al Qiyamah Church to celebrate their holidays. WAFA correspondence reports that Israeli police…
Wadi Hilweh Information Center-Silwan monitored the Israeli violations against Jerusalemites, during the month of March, as Israeli assaults continued against Jerusalemites, their property and holy sites.Arrest campaign Occupation authorities carried…
The Israeli Authorities issued a permit for the family of child detainee Khaled Sheikh allowing them to visit their detained son, for the first time, on May 7 2015, although…
Israeli police have detained five minors, Tuesday, from different parts of occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of throwing stones.According to lawyer Mofed al-Haj, the detainees were identified as Joseph al-Roug,…
Israeli police imposed restrictions on Palestinian worshipers entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Monday, one day after three Palestinians were banned from the compound for periods of up to 45…
The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem urged Christians to stand firm in the face of tragedy, as worshipers massed for Easter Sunday at the site where they believe Jesus rose from…
A total of 1,268 Israelis stormed occupied East Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque Compound during March alone, according to a Palestinian non-governmental organization.According to WAFA, Al Aqsa Institute for Waqf and…
Despite recent setbacks, the Jerusalem municipality continues to promote construction of a cable car system in occupied East Jerusalem as part of its ongoing attempt to transform the area around…
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday, a Palestinian Bedouin community in the al-Khan al-Ahmar area, north of the Israeli colony of Ma’aleh Adumim, and removed solar panels providing the community with…
An Israeli committee has approved controversial plans for eventual construction of 2,200 Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem, a spokeswoman said Wednesday, in the largest such project since 1967.NGO Ir…
Nureddin Amro and his brother Sharif Amro and their families were awakened at 5:30 am by over a hundred Israeli soldiers who came to demolish their home in the Wadi…
Dozens of extremist Israeli settlers stormed Al Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning, from Mughrabi gate, amid tight security protection from private Israeli occupation police.An employee at the Islamic Waqf in…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday morning, five Palestinians in different neighborhoods on occupied East Jerusalem.The Jerusalem Detainees Parents Committee said the soldiers kidnapped Fuad ‘Obeid, 23, after storming his home…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, late on Tuesday evening, three young Palestinian men from Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied East Jerusalem, after stopping and searching their car.Media sources in Jerusalem said the soldiers…
The Israeli “Planning and Construction Committee” in occupied Jerusalem has approved, Tuesday, the construction of 2200 illegal settlement units in ‘Arab as-Sawahra neighborhood, in the Sawahra area, between Jabal al-Mokabber…
Employees of the Jerusalem City Council demolished, on Tuesday morning, some sections of Palestinian home, a horse barn and some walls, in the Market area (al-Hisba) in Wad al-Jouz neighborhood,…
The Israeli West Jerusalem municipality Monday approved a tender to build 142 new housing units in occupied East Jerusalem area, according to Walla Israeli media website.It reported that the municipality’s…
The annual mission report, written by heads of the diplomatic missions of EU member states in the Palestinian Authority, is strongly worded and very critical of Israel’s policies in and…
Media sources in Jerusalem said Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday morning, a Palestinian woman near the Silsila Gate (Chain Gate), one of the Gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as she…
Israeli soldiers conducted, on Monday morning, an extensive military campaign targeting dozens of homes in different parts of occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped ten Palestinians, after searching and ransacking their…
The Israeli District Court ordered, Sunday, the release of two Palestinian teenagers from occupied Jerusalem, but also ruled that they would not be allowed into Al Aqsa Mosque and its…
A Palestinian who was injured after falling while trying to climb over the Israeli separation wall, last week, died of his wounds on Wednesday.Akram Mahmoud Mohammad Abd al-Hamid Al-Hroub, from…
Jewish groups which define themselves by the name of the alleged ancient temple are preparing for the Jewish holiday of Passover by mobilizing the largest number of settlers to enter…
As tension mounts with Washington, Israel’s outgoing government has suspended a controversial plan to build hundreds of new settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem, a news website reported Wednesday.According to…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday evening, six Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, including two workers from Bethlehem, while many residents have been injured.Local sources said the soldiers invaded the al-Jadira…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at dawn, two Palestinian children in the al-‘Isawiyya town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and took them to an interrogation facility.…
The Israeli army, and personnel of the Jerusalem City Council, delivered late on Sunday demolition notices targeting five Palestinian homes in Ein al-Louza and Be’er Ayyoub neighborhoods, in Silwan town,…
Amidst repeated invasions, assaults and attacks by extremist Israeli colonialist settlers attempting to displace a Jerusalemite Palestinian family, and occupy their building, Palestinian residents and Israeli peace activists, started guarding…
Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, a Palestinian home in Jabal al-Mokabber, south of occupied East Jerusalem, detained the family into one room while searching their property, and confiscated their phones.The family…
The Israeli Police released Sunday a young Palestinian woman from occupied Jerusalem, after imposing a 5000 NIS fine on her, and ordered her away from the Al-Aqsa Mosque for fifteen…
Extremist Jewish settlers stormed the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi gate, on Thursday morning, amid tight security from a private Israeli police force.The media coordinator at the…
Clashes took place, on Wednesday evening, in Silwan town in occupied East Jerusalem, after Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinian youths and families protesting near the al-Malhi building that was taken over…
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) in occupied East Jerusalem, said Israeli extremists broke into, and occupied, a residential building inhabited by the al-Malhi family, and two lands…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Wednesday morning, ten Palestinians, including a woman and five children, in different parts of occupied East Jerusalem, and one in Ramallah. Two children and three teenagers…
Judaism’s accepted ruling that entry to Jerusalem’s al Aqsa mosque compound – the site of the biblical temples – is prohibited to Jews is apparently softening following a concerted campaign…
Israeli occupation forces, Tuesday afternoon, attacked a popular demonstration that surfaced around the story of the Jerusalem Gate protest camp, on the day of Israeli Knesset elections.PNN reports that hundreds…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday that, if reelected, he will build thousands of settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem to prevent future concessions to Palestinians.Speaking ahead of Tuesday’s…
The Israeli Police released, on Sunday evening, three Palestinian children, and one woman, from occupied Jerusalem, after issuing an order denying them access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, for 15 days,…
The Israeli Authorities handed, Sunday, a Palestinian attorney from occupied Jerusalem, a military order preventing him from entering the entire city for six months, in the period between Match, 10…
Israeli soldiers attacked, Monday, a 10-year-old Palestinian child as dozens of Israeli fanatics stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque yards, in occupied Jerusalem, and also assaulted a mosque guard while trying to…
The Israeli police kidnapped, Sunday, a Palestinian woman and a teenage girl while leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, and took them to a police station in the Old…
A large number of extremist settlers, on Sunday morning, broke into Al Aqsa Mosque under the protection of special Israeli police units.According to PNN sources, 35 settlers broke into the…
As hundreds of Palestinian women peacefully marched near the Qalandia Terminal north of occupied Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers violently attacked them, and wounded nine.The protesters marched towards the soldiers, close to…
Palestinian medical sources have reported that an elderly man was injured, on Saturday evening, after a number of Israeli extremists assaulted him as he was leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in…
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) in Silwan, in occupied Jerusalem has reported that a young Palestinian man was shot and seriously injured by Israeli army fire, after the soldiers…
Extremist Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate, under heavy protection by police, Thursday morning.Media coordinator for Islamic Waqf in Jerusalem, Firas Debs, told Al…
Israeli forces abducted eight Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, including three teenagers, Monday at dawn, prisoner rights group Addameer said.Lawyer for Addameer, Muhammad Mahmoud, said that Yousuf Abu Jumaah, Mahdi…
The Israeli Civil Administration ordered Palestinians from the al-Jahalin community residing in the Khillet al-Raheb area to the east of Jerusalem to demolish their homes. Should they fail to do…
Extremists affiliated to ‘Groups for the Temple Compound’ have called on supporters to participate in breaking into Al Aqsa Mosque next Wednesday and Thursday, in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, to celebrate…
Israeli civil administration employees, on Friday, demolished the ‘Jerusalem Gate’ protest camp for the 10th time, a spokesman told Ma’an News Agency.Popular resistance committee spokesman Hani Halabiya said that Israeli…
The Israeli military court in the Ofer base and detention center, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, sentenced on Wednesday child detainee, Khaled Husam Sheikh, 14 years of…
Extremist Israeli settlers again stormed the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning, from the Mughrabi Gate, under tight security protection from Israeli police.Media coordinator at the Islamic Waqf…
A group of Israeli fanatics burnt, on Thursday at dawn, a section of the Church of the Dormition, in occupied Jerusalem, causing significant damage, and wrote racist anti-Christian graffiti.The fanatics…
A Palestinian girl suffered fractures and bruises, on Tuesday, after being hit by a settlement guard’s jeep in the Ein al-Lawza area of the Silwan neighborhood, occupied East Jerusalem, according…
Israeli forces detained a lawyer and two children during a raid on their houses in the nearby town of Al Tur (Mount of Olives) and Al Thawri neighborhood, in the…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday morning, the Jerusalem Gate protest village, in Abu Dis town, east of occupied Jerusalem, and demolished it for the ninth consecutive time.Hani Halabiyya,…
Israeli media reported Sunday that an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed by a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, Sunday evening.Israel’s Ynet news site described the incident as ‘a suspected terror attack’,…
Palestinian activists rebuilt the Jerusalem Gate protest camp in the central occupied West Bank, on Wednesday, for the ninth time in just over two weeks following another raid and demolition…
Extremist settlers again stormed Al Aqsa Mosque, on Thursday morning, under guarded of special Israeli police forces.Director of the mosque, Sheikh Omar Kiswani, stated to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency…
Activists participating in the symbolic village known as the ‘Jerusalem Gate’ were detained by Israeli forces on Tuesday, and will be brought before a military court on Thursday afternoon. Israeli…
The “Construction and Planning Committee” of the Jerusalem City Council approved, Wednesday, a plan that would displace 120 Bedouins, and grazing lands, to that it can establish a new trash…
Small groups of Israeli settlers broke into the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate, on Wednesday, under the protection of Israeli special police.Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Tuesday, a Palestinian woman from Jerusalem while she was leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque, through the Bab an-Nather Gate, and took her to an interrogation center in the…
A group of Israeli fanatics accompanied by a number of soldiers, invaded on Tuesday the “Jerusalem Gate” (Bab al-Quds) protest village, in Abu Dis town, east of occupied Jerusalem, and…
Israeli forces, on Monday afternoon, raided the popular struggle symbolic village ‘Jerusalem Gate’, constructed in Abu Dis, occupied East Jerusalem, in protest of Israeli plans to confiscate land and displace…
A number of Israelis, on Saturday night, assaulted a Palestinian taxi driver while he was at work in West Jerusalem, according to witnesses.WAFA reprots that witnesses present at the scene…
A right-wing Jewish organization called the Western Wall Heritage Foundation has circulated an invitation for bids to conduct excavations in tunnels under al-Aqsa Mosque compound, a top Palestinian official said…
The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) has revealed that more than 20,000 Palestine homes in Jerusalem have been shortlisted to be demolished by Israeli authorities.According to the…
A number of Israeli extremists attacked, on Saturday at night, a Palestinian cab driver in an area in Jerusalem, causing several cuts and bruises that required hospitalization. Soldiers kidnap a…
The Ahrar Center for Human Rights has reported that an ailing child detainee, held by Israel since his kidnapping on December 24, 2014, in occupied Jerusalem, is facing seriously deteriorating…
Israeli forces, for the fifth time in a row, have demolished the symbolic popular struggle village ‘Jerusalem Gate’ in Abu Dis, which continues its stand against Israeli policies of demolition…
The Israeli Municipality of West Jerusalem set up, on Wednesday, a sign reading “Temple Mount”, in reference to the nearby al-Aqsa Mosque compound.The sign, which was placed near Al Nather…
Israeli military bulldozers demolished, on Tuesday morning, a house belonging to the al-Absi family of the Silwan neighborhood, to the south of al-Aqsa Mosque, occupied East Jerusalem.According to Al Ray…
The Israeli army and the Jerusalem City Council demolished a Palestinian home in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, rendering 14 family members home.The home, located in the Sweih neighborhood…
A Jewish settler group, attempted to evict a house rented by a Palestinian family in the neighborhood of Aqabat al-Khalidiya in Jerusalem’s Old City, on Monday, citing that the house…
Wadi Hilweh Information Center issued, on Sunday, its monthly report in which Israeli violations in the city of Jerusalem, during the month of January, 2015, were monitored as Israeli occupation…
The Popular Resistance activists and the people of Jerusalem on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 were able to construct a number of tents. They called them ‘Jerusalem Gate’. These tents were…
The so-called Israeli ‘Committee of Local Planning and Construction’ of the Jerusalem Municipality approved, on Sunday, the construction of 64 new housing units in the illegal ‘Ramot’ settlement of occupied…
The symbolic village for popular resistance, ‘Jerusalem Gate’, was demolished for the fourth time, on Sunday.Mustafa Al-Barghourthi, General Secretary of the Palestine National Initiative (PNI), told the Palestinian News Network…
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, a Palestinian child from his family homes, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Army also invaded Jenin and Bethlehem, broke into…
Israeli police abducted three Palestinian women on Thursday morning, as they were leaving occupied East Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque, while 11 settlers stormed its courtyards amid tight security measures.Jerusalem sources…
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Thursday at dawn, the Jerusalem Gate protest village, in Abu Dis town in occupied East Jerusalem, for the second it in two days. Lawyer Bassam Bahar,…
Activists of the Nonviolent Popular Resistance Movement, national and Islamic factions, rebuilt on Wednesday, the “Jerusalem Gate” protest tent village, on Palestinian lands east of Abu Dis town, near occupied…
Dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed the “Jerusalem Gate” protest tent village in Khallet ar-Raheb area, east of Abu Dis town, near occupied Jerusalem, removed the tents, and confiscated property.Dozens of…
Hani Halabiyya, spokesperson of East Jerusalem Popular Resistance Committees, said Israeli soldiers invaded the “Jerusalem Gate” protest tent village that was installed earlier by nonviolent activists, and informed them the…
Twelve Israeli police officers invaded Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound Tuesday morning, and toured the area.Later in the morning, some twenty Israeli settlers invaded the compound, accompanied by police and intelligence…
A settler shot and injured a 17-year-old Muhammad Yusuf Burqan in the Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Monday, according to witnesses.The youth was shot while tending to a…
A settler’s car, on Monday, ran over a nun in Bab al-Amoud, also known as the Damascus Gate, in occupied East Jerusalem, said a Palestinian paramedic.A nun was hit by…
Israeli settlers attempted, Thursday, to kidnap a Palestinian toddler in one of the streets of Jabal al-Mokabber town, in occupied East Jerusalem. Media sources said the settlers tried to kidnap…
Daoud al Ghoul, a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem, was deported in December from Jerusalem and the West Bank for a period of five months. The deportation was done through a…
Seven-year-old East Jerusalem schoolboy Mousa Zallum, who survived a kidnapping attempt in July of 2014, along with his 8-year-old brother Yahya, on Wednesday, identified the extremists who attempted to kidnap…
Israeli soldiers, accompanied by a number of security officers, invaded on Wednesday evening several Palestinian homes and stores in different parts of occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped three Palestinians. One…
An Israeli settler, Wednesday morning, assaulted a Palestinian teenager from the al-Thuri neighborhood, near Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem, while the boy was walking to school.Jamil Gheith told Ma’an News Agency…
Israel is exploiting its upcoming elections in order to Judaise Jerusalem’s al Aqsa mosque, said the Islamic-Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and the Holy Sites.Dr. Hanna Issa, secretary-general of…
Medical sources have reported, Tuesday, that three young Palestinian men have been injured by Israeli rubber-coated metal bullets, while many suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, near the northern…
The Palestinian Committee of Detainees and Ex-Detainees has reported that Israel’s ongoing kidnappings of Palestinian children in occupied Jerusalem have led to more than 1500 abductions, since the beginning of…
Lawyer of the Ad-Dameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association Mohammad Mahmoud stated that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday, three Palestinians in Silwan town and in the Old City of…
Undercover soldiers of the Israeli military kidnapped, on Monday evening, a 10-yea-old Palestinian child near his family home in Shu’fat neighborhood, north of occupied Jerusalem, and released him later on.The…
Israeli undercover police, late Monday, detained a 10-year-old Palestinian boy near his home in the Shu’fat neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, leading to clashes between locals and Israeli forces, according…