Jerusalem Controversy

Minor confrontations were reported at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa Mosque Wednesday morning between Israeli police and Palestinians, with heightened tensions in the city ahead of a planned right-wing march that has not been approved by authorities. Videos from the mount showed rocks and Molotov cocktails being hurled at…

Israeli airstrike hits Gaza. Photo: AFP/file   JERUSALEM: Israel carried out its first airstrike on the Gaza Strip in months early Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave as tensions soar after a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem holy site. Warning sirens sounded in southern Israel…

AMMAN: Jordan's King Abdullah said on Monday that Israel’s “unilateral” moves against Muslim worshippers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque seriously undermined the prospects for peace in the region, state media said. The monarch, who was speaking with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, blamed Israel for “provocative acts” in the mosque compound that…

Published April 19, 2022 10:57am JERUSALEM - Israel shot down a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the Israeli military said, the first such attack in months as tensions over a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine drew angry pro-Palestinian rhetoric from Jordan and US mediation efforts. No Gaza faction claimed…

Israel's fractious governing coalition faced a new split on Sunday when Arab-Israeli party Raam "suspended" its membership, after violence around a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site that wounded 170 people over the weekend. The government -- an ideologically disparate mix of left-wing, hardline Jewish nationalist and religious parties, as well as…

Published: 4:03am, 18 Apr, 2022 Updated: 11:21am, 18 Apr, 2022 Read More

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Clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police wounded ten protesters on Sunday morning in and around Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the site of major clashes two days earlier. Early on Sunday morning, “hundreds” of Palestinian demonstrators started gathering piles of stones, shortly before the arrival of Jewish visitors to…