Jerusalem Controversy

Israeli police confirmed several people were killed and others injured in a shooting attack in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood in Jerusalem on Friday evening. It is unclear yet if any of them were critically wounded. They were all dispatched to a nearby hospital. With number of those killed climbing up…

Fresh clashes between ultra-Orthodox men and police erupted in Jerusalem on Monday evening during a demonstration against the sale of phones with internet access. A police statement blamed “extremists” for the violence and said officers tried to allow for peaceful protest “but at a certain stage the demonstrators began to…

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Leaders from the Anglican Church, the Church of England and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs are condemning acts of vandalism that left more than 30 graves at a Christian cemetery in Jerusalem desecrated. The site – the Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion – is located near Jerusalem's Old City…

JERUSALEM (AP) — More than 30 graves at a historic Christian cemetery in Jerusalem were found toppled and vandalized, the diocese said Wednesday, jolting the Christian minority in the contested city. Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the attack an “immoral act” and “an affront to religion.” Jerusalem’s Anglican Archbishop Hosam Naoum…

Two men caught on camera vandalising 30 Christian graves in Jerusalem. (Screenshot) Two people have been arrested for vandalising more than 30 graves in a Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem.One of the men was caught on camera pushing over a cross-shaped tombstone.The incident has been called an “act of intentional vandalism and…

Israeli police said Friday that they had arrested two teens from central Israel for the “deliberate” vandalism of a Christian cemetery in Jerusalem that resulted in damage to roughly 30 graves. In a statement, police said they had launched an investigation after receiving the report of the destruction and discovered…

JERUSALEM — The Israeli police on Friday arrested two teenagers who they said vandalized over two dozen Christian graves in a historic Jerusalem cemetery earlier this week. The graves of Christian figures at the Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem’s venerated Mount Zion were found pushed over and pulled from their foundations…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Khaled Shurrab had been waiting more than half his life to get out of Gaza. The 27-year-old had never left the coastal enclave, which has been blockaded by Israel and Egypt since 2007. He couldn’t find a job — the territory’s youth unemployment rate is over 60%.…