Jerusalem Controversy

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police in full riot gear stormed a sensitive Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews and Muslims on Friday after Palestinian youths hurled stones at a gate where they were stationed. The renewed violence at the site, which is sacred to Jews and Muslims, came despite Israel…

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The US embassy in Jerusalem has cautioned American citizens over travel in the city and limited the times when embassy workers and their families can enter the Old City due to recent terror attacks and clashes in the area. In a statement Wednesday, the embassy urged US citizens to “remain…

A wave of clashes between Israeli authorities and Palestinians in Jerusalem has brought renewed attention to the growth in religious Jewish visitors to the city’s holiest site and escalating fears among Muslims that they are losing control of sacred ground. After a week of near-daily violence on the site known…

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