Jerusalem Controversy

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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Jewish astronaut Jeff Hoffman presented the high-flying book, which he used on space missions, to the library in Jerusalem. (March 27, 2023 / JNS) It’s a diary of cosmic proportions, which has rubbed shoulders with the stars. The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian owns a flute, which the…

JERUSALEM- Israel’s largest labour organisation Histadrut started Monday a general worker strikes to press the government to halt its contentious judicial overhaul plan. Histadrut’s chairman Arnon Bar-David issued a statement saying workers and employers would together halt the judicial overhaul, Israeli media reported. Following his call, departing flights from Ben…

CAIRO: Simmering tensions between Sudan’s ruling factions reached breaking point on Saturday when trucks with mounted machine guns and tanks began rolling through the streets of Khartoum, a city of 5.2 million people, and airstrikes and artillery fire bombarded neighborhoods from all sides, starting fires and wreaking destruction. Fighting soon spread…

Jerusalem CNN  —  Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has dramatically broken ranks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing it as a matter of national security to pause the government’s drive to overhaul Israel’s court system. Gallant’s Saturday night speech – when Netanyahu was out of the country on an official…

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Two Israeli soldiers were wounded on Saturday, the military said, in a drive-by shooting claimed by a Palestinian armed group in the flashpoint town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) said in a statement that…