Jerusalem Controversy

Israeli police on Saturday shot dead an Arab man who they said grabbed a gun from an officer and fired it in a scuffle at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound. The dead man was identified as 26-year-old medical student Mohammed al-Asibi, a resident of the Bedouin village of Hura, in southern…

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Russia assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations’ Security Council on Saturday for a month, a move decried as an April Fool’s Day joke by critics. “As of 1 April, they’re taking the level of absurdity to a new level,” said Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s permanent representative, according to The…

Former senior police officials said Saturday it seemed unlikely that there was no footage of the deadly shooting of a man by security officers in Jerusalem’s Old City. Police have described the incident as a “terror attack,” while eyewitnesses and the man’s relatives have denied the official account. Police said…

Oksana Markarova hailed U.S. Jewish support before the start of a celebratory seder for diplomats, during which she noted Chassidic leader Reb Nachman of Breslov. (March 31, 2023 / JNS) Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States told a gathering of Jewish media this week that Iran’s partnership with Russia has…

March 31, 2023 — Jerusalem (AFP) Thousands of Muslims packed Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the second Friday of Ramadan, for peaceful prayers that saw no clashes with the Israeli security forces, an AFP journalist reported. The Jordanian body which administers the mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem said that…

Security forces were on alert in Jerusalem and the West Bank as tens of thousands of Muslims took part in mass prayers on the second Friday of Ramadan, including at the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. Border Police deployed 2,300 soldiers in Jerusalem and its surroundings and in…

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Far-right groups were filmed attacking Arab passersby during pro-government demonstrations in Jerusalem and in one case “savagely” beating a man, police said early Tuesday, adding that three people had been arrested for the assault. The attacks came as mass protests for and against the government’s judicial overhaul across major cities…

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