Jerusalem

Israeli security forces entered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem before dawn as thousands of Palestinians were gathered for prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, setting off clashes that medics said wounded at least 67…
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Israeli police killed a Palestinian man on Sunday morning after he stabbed an officer in Jerusalem, police said. The man “approached police officers who were stationed at the Bab Huta Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, pulled out a knife…
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Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Wednesday said he hopes US President Joe Biden will keep promises his administration has made to the Palestinian people, including a pledge to reopen the American Consulate in Jerusalem. He…
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The Palestinians on Sunday slammed Israel for rejecting the promised reopening of the US Consulate in Jerusalem, a move that would restore Washington’s main diplomatic mission for the Palestinians in the contested city. Israeli Prime…
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One of the most famous nature photographers in Israel documented a rare scene in a bush near Jerusalem of a female hyena offering her cubs for the first time a fresh meal of deer that she had hunted. Amir Palvan spent years documenting…
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Israeli police fatally shot a woman who tried to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday, police said. According to a police statement, the attacker attempted to stab police in one of the streets leading to the Al-Aqsa mosque,…
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As police protected them, three Jewish men stepped forward, placed their hands out at chest level and began reciting prayers in low tones in the shadow of Jerusalem’s golden Dome of the Rock. Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s most sensitive…
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The Hebrew media reported, this evening, Sunday, that large fires erupted in the forests of the mountains of the occupied city of Jerusalem. And the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported, this evening, Sunday, that planes and…
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Israel’s new prime minister backtracked on Monday after claiming that Jews were entitled to “freedom of worship” at Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem, the third-holiest site in Islam. In fact, the site is administered by Jordan through the…
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The owner of Israel’s Beitar soccer club says he has called off a friendly match with Barcelona over its refusal to hold the event in contested Jerusalem. Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 war, annexed it in a move not…
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