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Israeli forces seize Palestinian textbooks from students outside Al-Aqsa

Israeli forces seized Palestinian textbooks from students at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, according to local media reports. Books published by the Palestinian education ministry were confiscated due to having Palestinian flags printed on them, local sources told Wafa news agency. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that students from two schools located inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa were stopped by Israeli forces. The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf - or […]

today5 September 2023

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Palestinians removed from Jerusalem home to make way for Israeli settler takeover

Israeli forces removed a Palestinian family from their home in occupied East Jerusalem early on Tuesday morning to make way for settler groups to take it over. Around 20 heavily armed officers stormed the house in the Old City at dawn, forcing the current residents, the Sub Laban family, out of the building they have lived in for 70 years. Mustafa Sub Laban, 72, was inside the house when officers arrived, while his wife, Nora Sub Laban, […]

today12 July 2023

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Former Israeli soldier returns key to Al-Aqsa Mosque after 56 years

A former Israeli soldier handed back a key Thursday for a gate of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem after stealing it 56 years ago, Anadolu reports. The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem published a video showing its director general Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib receiving the key from the man, identified as Yair Barack. In the video, Barack said he was part of the Israeli battalion that fought on the East Jerusalem front, […]

today21 May 2023

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Israeli far-right security minister storms Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa complex

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir on Sunday entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu reports. Ben-Gvir entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque's Haram al-Sharif area early in the morning with special guards and under the protection of the Israeli forces. In his video message from the courtyard of Al-Aqsa, he claimed Israel's ownership of the complex and said threats from Hamas make no sense. "We own Jerusalem and all […]

today21 May 2023

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Israeli ‘flag march’ in Jerusalem to fuel tension: Palestine

The Palestinian Authority (PA) warned, Wednesday, that a planned flag march by Israeli settlers in occupied East Jerusalem will fuel tension in the region, Anadolu News Agency reports. Settlers plan to stage the flag march through Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday to mark what they call the unification of Jerusalem, in reference to Israel's occupation of the city in 1967. In a statement, PA spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, termed the flag march […]

today18 May 2023

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Jordan condemns new Israeli settlement plans in East Jerusalem

Jordan on Saturday decried new Israeli settlement plans in occupied East Jerusalem as a violation of international law, Anadolu reports. On Friday, Israel issued tenders for the construction of 1,029 units in the settlements of Efrat and Beita Illit in East Jerusalem, according to Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlements watchdog. The group said the settlement building comes despite Israel's commitment during last week's summit in Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh to suspend the […]

today26 March 2023

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Israel places a hold on the demolition of a Palestinian building due to international pressure

By Kouthar Sambo According to Israeli media, the Israeli occupation authorities agreed on Monday to place a hold on the demolishing of a Palestinian building in occupied East Jerusalem that houses 100 people. This comes after Israelis were scheduled to destroy the structure today but international pressure continues to escalate. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's far-right extremist minister of national security, gave the police instructions to get ready to tear down the […]

today7 February 2023

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US plans to build diplomatic compound on Palestinian land in East Jerusalem: Rights group

INTERNATIONAL The US is planning to build a diplomatic complex on private property confiscated from Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, a rights organisation said Sunday, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) said they have found new evidence that the land on which the diplomatic compound is to be built under a joint US-Israeli plan is located on private property taken from […]

today12 July 2022

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Israeli court orders eviction of 87 Palestinians from East Jerusalem neighbourhood

Israel's Jerusalem District Court ratified on Thursday the eviction of 87 Palestinians from the Batan al-Hawa area in Silwan in favour of the Israeli settler group Ateret Cohanim. The Palestinian families, who have lived in the area for decades, are expected to be evicted from their homes in Silwan, located in occupied East Jerusalem, before the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden on 20 January 2021. Ateret Cohanim, which aims […]

today27 November 2020

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