TEL AVIV – Israel will gradually reopen the Temple Mount complex to Muslim worshipers on Sunday while adding additional security precautions after the site was closed following the murder of two Israeli police officers by three Arab-Israelis on Friday morning.
JERUSALEM — In the face of highly distorted criticism against Israel from Arab states, the Trump White House on Saturday defended Israel’s security decision to temporarily close the Temple Mount to worshipers following a deadly Palestinian terrorist attack at the Mount.
JERUSALEM – The Arab League and Jordan both separately condemned Israel for temporarily closing the Temple Mount on Friday but failed to mention the deadly Palestinian terrorist attack at the Mount that prompted Israel to enforce the closure for national security reasons.
TEL AVIV — Two Israeli Border Police Officers were murdered and a third was wounded on Friday when three Palestinian terrorists opened fire at security forces near an entrance to the Temple Mount and fled onto the mount complex.
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday, in his first speech as head of the terror group’s political bureau, hailed an era of new relations with Cairo that would ease the blockade of Gaza, and made clear that Hamas has not changed its goal of liberating all of historic Palestine.
TEL AVIV — Jibril Rajoub, a member of Fatah’s central committee, has put himself on the receiving end of anger on Palestinian streets after telling Israel’s Channel 2 that he Western Wall “will remain under Israeli sovereignty. There’s no argument that this is a holy site for Jews.”
A prophesy appearing to call for the murder of Jews repeated during a sermon at a Copenhagen mosque has caused outrage in Denmark after it was released online.
TEL AVIV – Israel on Tuesday rebuked Turkey’s Ambassador to protest his president’s call the previous day urging Muslims all over the world to throng the Temple Mount in order to protect it from “Judaization.”
TEL AVIV — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday urged Muslims to visit the Temple Mount to act as a counter to the “insult” of “occupied Jerusalem” by Israel, which he called a “racist and discriminatory” state that is reminiscent of apartheid.
The Islamic State group is determined to move closer to Israel’s borders, Gaza-based Palestinian jihadist and IS supporter Abou Baker Almaqdesi claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem.
Two clerics at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount were arrested as part of an investigation into the attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday. Two civilians and one policeman were slightly injured in the attack.
Fatah’s television station Awdah twice broadcast a music video featuring photos of suicide bombers with a song whose lyrics promote death as a martyr for the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti (pictured) Muhammad Ahmad Hussein on Friday claimed that President-elect Donald Trump’s reported plans to relocated the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem represented an “assault” on Muslims worldwide.
TEL AVIV – Muslims should seize Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and “eliminate the state of the Jews in one or two strikes,” a Palestinian cleric declared in a recent sermon delivered at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. Sheikh Abd Al-Salam Abu Al-Izz called on
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday urged Muslims to defend the Palestinian cause, striking a tough stance on Israel despite improved ties between the two nations.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Sunday threatened Israel over proposed legislation that would ban mosques from using loudspeakers to sound the traditional call to prayer.
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Avi Dichter (Likud), said Sunday that he would speak with his Russian counterparts about their support for the “scandalous and unconscionable” resolutions recently passed by UNESCO that ignored the Jewish connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the outlawed northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, is warning against what he calls Israel’s “escalating measures” against the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
An important panel at the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday morning approved a controversial resolution that ignores Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount.
The UN cultural agency on Tuesday adopted a controversial Arab-sponsored resolution on east Jerusalem which Israel has said ignores Jewish ties to a key holy site.
UNESCO chief Irina Bokova has received “death threats” after expressing reservations about Arab-backed resolutions on the holy sites in Jerusalem, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations organisation said on Monday.
Outrage over UNESCO’s approval on Thursday of a resolution that omitted the Jewish people’s ties with Jerusalem continued to grow over the weekend.
JERUSALEM – It seems that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party just doesn’t know when to quit. A day after the faction praised Sunday’s “heroic” terror attack that killed two Israelis, Fatah celebrated the deaths by posting a cartoon of the Dome of the Rock with a victorious hand clutching an assault rifle atop the mosque.
Israeli authorities have arrested dozens of Palestinians after a deadly shooting rampage in Jerusalem raised fears of a surge in violence during this week’s Yom Kippur holiday, police said Monday.
Israelis have been faced with a massive increase in Palestinian terrorism in recent days and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party responded by claiming the Jewish state is behind the violence.
TEL AVIV – Allah has promised us the White House and we will stand on top of it and shout Allahu Akbar, a Palestinian cleric said in a September 14 address at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Israel is expected to demolish Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque in 2019, 50 years after an arsonist attempted to burn down the Muslim holy site, the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem Affairs Minister Adnan Ghaleb al-Husayni baselessly claimed in a recent interview with the Palestinian Information Center.
Israeli police are to boost their presence at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound for a Jewish day of mourning commemorating the destruction of ancient temples there, a spokesman said.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s Fatah movement has called on the public to rally at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa mosque to prevent the “occupation government” from allowing “settlers” into the holy site during Ramadan. The Temple Mount is considered the
Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount clashed Sunday with Muslims protesting Jewish visits there as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan approached its climax, Palestinians said.
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Newly-appointed Defense Minister Avidgor Lieberman has issued an order easing some restrictions imposed on the Palestinians ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, which begins on Monday.
The Daily Telegraph reports: Dawn marks the beginning of a perilous hour in the Old City of Jerusalem. After sunrise, thousands of Muslims and Jews gather to perform their respective devotions at the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Western Wall.
JERUSALEM – A news report on a children’s event broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV News included a young Palestinian girl’s hate speech claiming that the Jews kill Muslim worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque and that they imprison small children.
PARIS (AFP) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Wednesday described a UNESCO resolution on the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem as “clumsy” and “unfortunate” and said it should have been avoided.
BEERSHEBA (ISRAEL) (AFP) – Israeli Arab Muslim leader Raed Salah started a nine-month prison sentence on Sunday for fomenting riots at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque.
The Times of Israel reports: Kuwait’s minister of information, Sheikh Salman a-Sabah visited the Temple Mount on Saturday to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque, later meeting with Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah.
Arutz Sheva reports: The radical Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has pursued an Islamic Caliphate since 1953, held a massive conference in Ramallah on Saturday, calling upon the armies of Jordan and Egypt to intervene directly and “free Palestine.”
Ynetnews reports: A collection of pictures of Jerusalem and other places in Israel from the 19th century has been sold for $1.4 million the British newspaper The Daily Mail reports. The collection consists of over 1,000 black and white photos,
Deputy Leader of the outlawed Islamic Movement in Israel Sheikh Kamal Khatib repeatedly accused the Israeli government of trying to take over the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, in a common incitement claim used to fuel Arab terror.