Jerusalem Controversy

Three European foreign ministers are expected to visit Israel this week, after the EU Foreign Affairs Committee failed to agree upon a statement on the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Germany’s Heiko Maas, the Czech Republic’s Kulhánek and Slovakia’s Ivan Korcok plan to visit Israel on Thursday. They were invited…

The impending eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood has prompted Palestinian rights activists to call for more scrutiny into how tax-exempt US-based charities – and the private firms that donate to them – are funding Israeli settlement activity that is widely seen to…

Palestinians in the West Bank mobilised massively on Tuesday in a call for unity with Palestinians in Gaza and Jerusalem as the week-long conflict between Gaza and Israel showed no sign of abating. “For the very first time there is only one Palestinian people. From the North to the South,…

May 19, 2021 | 12:33am | Updated May 19, 2021 | 8:52am Enlarge Image Mike Evans, founder of the Facebook page, claims the shutdown was due in part to an "organized attempt by radical Islamic organizations." AFP via Getty Images Facebook shut down a pro-Israel page that reportedly had 77…

NEW DELHI: Calling for an immediate de-escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian situation, India on Sunday urged both sides to exercise extreme restraint and refrain from taking any action to unilaterally change the status quo, including in East Jerusalem and its neighbourhood. The government condemned all acts of violence and destruction and…

/ Middle East Issued on: 16/05/2021 - 22:18 Israeli medics and an ultra-Orthodix Jewish youth evacuate an injured man after the collapse of grandstand seating at a synagogue in the Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev in the West Bank near Jerusalem, on May 16, 2021. AFP - GIL COHEN-MAGEN Two…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics say two people are dead and more than 150 injured after a bleacher collapsed at an uncompleted West Bank synagogue. JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli medics say two people are dead and more than 150 injured after a bleacher collapsed at an uncompleted West Bank synagogue.…

India has expressed its "deep concern" over violence in Jerusalem at the United Nations Security Council session on the ongoing Israel-Palestine escalating situation. This is the third session of UNSC on the situation, but first open session since the previous two meetings were closed. Calling for "immediate de-escalation" as the "need…

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Jordan's king says diplomatic contacts under way to halt Israel's military campaign ReutersLast Updated: May 16, 2021, 09:54 PM IST Synopsis The monarch, whose ruling family has custodianship of Muslim and Christian sites in Jerusalem, did not elaborate, but has in recent days warned that Israel's military campaign was risking…