Jerusalem Controversy

A Palestinian attacker in his early teens opened fire in east Jerusalem on Saturday, wounding two people, officials said, a day after another assailant killed seven outside a synagogue in the deadliest attack in the city since 2008 The shooting in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem, near…

Last Updated: 28th January, 2023 06:53 IST The attack, which occurred as residents were observing the Jewish sabbath, came a day after an Israeli military raid killed nine people in the West Bank. Image: AP A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people,…

/ Middle East Issued on: 27/01/2023 - 20:47 10:00 Victims of a shooting attack are covered on the ground near a synagogue in Jerusalem on January 27, 2023. © Mahmoud Illean, AP A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing five people and wounding five…

Israeli emergency service personnel and security forces at the scene of a shooting attack in Jerusalem on Jan. 27. Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty images Police say a gunman opened fire on worshippers at a Jerusalem synagogue Friday night local time, killing at least seven Israeli citizens and wounding three…

Several additional people were injured, including some seriously. An assailant was shot and neutralized. (January 27, 2023 / JNS) Seven people were killed and several others were injured in a terrorist shooting attack on Friday at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Neve Ya’akov neighborhood, according to police. Police said the terrorist…

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…