Jerusalem Controversy

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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,"…

Israeli police fired water cannon to disperse Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem tonight, a day after clashes wounded more than 200 people at the city's Al-Aqsa mosque and prompted international calls for an end to escalating violence. Police said they dispersed the protest in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood where demonstrators had…

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Riot police clashed with protesters in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday as tension mounts over eviction orders hanging over Palestinian families, who may lose their homes to Israeli setters. At least 15 people were arrested as police used rubber bullets and a "skunk truck", which sprays foul-smelling liquid, in the…

Israeli police and Palestinians have clashed for a second night in annexed east Jerusalem, amid a controversial land rights case over the fate of Palestinian families threatened with eviction. The legal case centres on the homes of four Palestinian families on land claimed by Jews, with violence flaring ahead of…

The feast of the dedication REFLECTIONS TODAY The Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) celebrates the victory of the Maccabee brothers over the Greco-Syrian king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who forced the Jews to worship the Greek gods, to abandon the Law of Moses, and prohibited the reading of the Torah. Even the…

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The Israeli military has carried out strikes targeting Hamas positions in the besieged Gaza Strip as evening clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians continued in Jerusalem. Palestinian news agency Maan said Israeli army tanks near the fortified fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel launched attacks towards the enclave on…