Jerusalem Controversy

Mirage News May 13, 2021 10:51 am AESTDate Time As stated by Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The Secretary and the President discussed the violence in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, and the Secretary expressed his condolences…

Relatives of Palestinian Hussein al-Titi, 26, killed by Israeli gunfire in Fawwar refugee camp near the city of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, mourn over his body Relentless rocket fire and rioting in mixed Jewish-Arab towns fuelled growing fears Wednesday that violence between Israel and Palestinians that has claimed…

A huge blaze broke out Monday evening in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, visible from various parts of the city, AFP journalists said. A huge blaze broke out Monday evening in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound, visible from various parts of the city, AFP journalists said. The cause of the blaze at…

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…