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Dozens of settlers defile Al-Aqsa Mosque

Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers, under police protection, desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday morning and later in the afternoon, The Palestinian Information Centre reports. According to local sources, 288 settlers entered the Mosque in different groups through its Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards under tight police guard. During their tours at the Islamic holy site, the settlers received lectures from rabbis about the alleged Temple Mount and […]

23 February 2023

International

‘Collective punishment’: Palestinians in Jerusalem’s only refugee camp rise up against Israel

Residents of the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem have accused the Israeli army of employing a policy of “collective punishment” after a marked increase in punitive measures against them in recent days. Shuafat on Sunday witnessed a day of protests and civil disobedience in response to a crackdown on residents that started last week by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's far-right national security minister. Shurahbeil Alqam, an anti-occupation activist from the camp, said […]

21 February 2023

International

Sometimes Alqam (wormwood) is sweeter than honey

In the darkness that the nation is living through, and in the nightmare of normalisation, a light emanates from within the darkness, from Palestine, as usual and, specifically, from Jerusalem and the West Bank. It was Khairi Alqam who carried the torch this time, the young Jerusalemite who is barely 21 years old, and the young 13-year old Muhammad Aliwat from Silwan in Jerusalem. Alqam managed to avenge the victims […]

1 February 2023

International

Is Jordan really the custodian of Jerusalem’s holy sites?

Israeli occupation forces detained the Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani, as he entered the Noble Sanctuary on Tuesday. He was humiliated and searched before being allowed to enter the Islamic holy site. Last week, the Israeli occupation forces delayed Britain's Minister for the Middle East, Lord Tariq Ahmad, for more than half an hour while he was visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque. The minister was subjected to a prolonged security […]

20 January 2023

International

Palestine warns upcoming Israeli gov’t against altering Jerusalem status quo

INTERNATIONAL lestine on Sunday warned the upcoming Israeli government against changing the status quo in occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu reports. Extremist politician Itamar Ben-Gvir will be Israel's national security minister in the upcoming government under a coalition agreement struck with Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. "The Netanyahu-Ben-Gvir deal gives him massive powers to practice his extremist and racist policies and agenda, including conducting widespread and radical changes to the existing historical and legal status quo at the holy […]

28 November 2022

International

Jerusalem: One dead and several wounded in twin explosions

INTERNATIONAL At least one person was killed and 22 people wounded after two explosions hit entrances to Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, Israeli police said. At around 7am local time, an explosive device detonated at a bus stop in Givat Shaul, wounding at least 12 people, one of who succumbed to injuries later in hospital. The fatality was a minor, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported, naming him as 16-year-old Canadian yeshiva student Aryeh Shechopek. Half […]

24 November 2022

International

UK officials considered need for Israel embassy in Jerusalem ‘inevitable’

INTERNATIONAL British officials considered it inevitable that Jerusalem would one day become Israel’s capital and identified land for use as a future embassy in the city from the 1950s, UK government records seen by Middle East Eye reveal. Documents detailing negotiations between the UK and Israeli governments over the transfer of British-held assets dating from the Palestinian Mandate show how officials initially settled on an area within the former Allenby Barracks in southern Jerusalem […]

20 October 2022

International

UK embassy in Israel: Move to Jerusalem risks GCC trade deal, Kuwaiti MP warns

INTERNATIONAL Osama al-Shaheen, a member of the Kuwaiti parliament, has urged British Prime Minister Liz Truss not to move the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In an interview with Middle East Eye, he warned that such a move could scupper the free trade agreement between the UK and the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (which includes Kuwait) due to be signed by the end of the year. During a meeting with her Israeli […]

15 October 2022

International

Palestinian fighters call for ‘days of rage’ as civil disobedience observed over camp blockade

Protests and strikes spread from Jerusalem to the rest of the West Bank in response to growing Israeli closures and crackdowns. Israeli forces killed a Palestinian on Wednesday as hundreds of people observed a day of civil disobedience in solidarity with a Jerusalem refugee camp that has been under Israeli lockdown for five days. A general commercial strike was held in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as hundreds of people joined […]

13 October 2022

Jerusalem

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