Jerusalem Controversy

TEL AVIV—Fighting between Israel and Hamas intensified on Tuesday, with the Palestinian militant group launching hundreds of rockets from Gaza and Israel responding with airstrikes that have now killed more than 25 people, as the two sides prepared for a wider conflict. The rocket fire reached central Israel and the…

 Be careful what you read or hear, as the battle over the Gaza narrative has already begun. Like every conflict, the current round between Israel and the Gaza Strip has three different fronts: there is the primary battlefield in Gaza, where the enemy is located and from where the rocket…

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As violence rages at the Temple Mount, Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, nudging the region closer to all-out war, an American pastor known for his passionate support of Israel is warning that some in the international community and mainstream media are throwing gasoline on a conflagration. "The international…

Israel's army on Monday said it launched airstrikes on Gaza in response to rockets fired by Hamas militants after hundreds of Palestinians were hurt in clashes with Israeli police at a religious site in Jerusalem. Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters that Israeli forces had targeted "a Hamas military…

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Footage of Israel police firing tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades into the Al-Aqsa Mosque Monday (May 10) threatened to ignite regional violence in the Middle East. The footage, which was shared across social media platforms, also showed thousands of Palestinian men at the Al-Aqsa compound…

Israeli security forces spent the weekend beating and arresting Palestinian worshippers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. Coming late in the holy month of Ramadan, these attacks—featuring batons, tear gas, stun grenades, and other weapons, and which followed the deadly shooting of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy…

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The United Nations on Sunday called on Israel to show "maximum restraint and respect the right to freedom of peaceful assembly" and national security adviser Jake Sullivan expressed "serious concerns" about violence in Jerusalem. Driving the news: Over 250 Palestinians and several Israeli police officers have been wounded since Friday…

The "significant upsurge in violence" in the West Bank, in and near Gaza and in east Jerusalem "needs to stop immediately," a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said. "The firing of rockets from Gaza against civilian populations in Israel is totally unacceptable and feeds escalatory dynamics,"…