A pistol and two loaded cartridges belonging to a 13-year-old Palestinian boy from east Jerusalem were seized by police at an area school overnight Sunday. The boy has been placed under arrest.
Chief of Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Mashal has once again made relatively moderate statements about his organization’s involvement in any future peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians in a conversation with Indian journalists on Tuesday.
Israeli security guards at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem shot a Palestinian woman in the leg Tuesday after she charged at them and ignored calls to stop, police said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman approved on Sunday construction plans for some 800 new housing units in East Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement, as well as hundreds of new homes for an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
Two Israeli teens were injured late Sunday in a rock-throwing attack on a bus in East Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that the Palestinians will accept nothing less than a full Israeli withdrawal from territories Israel captured in the 1967 war and the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Ynetnews reports: The funeral of terrorist Alaa Abu Jamal from Jabel Mukaber turned into a display of hatred and incitement overnight Monday, with some 200 East Jerusalem residents crowding outside the cemetery and calling out “Allahu Akbar” and “In blood and spirit we will avenge you, shahid.”
QALANDIA (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) – Israeli police shot dead two Palestinians who approached a checkpoint between east Jerusalem and the West Bank on Wednesday, one of them brandishing a knife, a spokeswoman said.
The UN cultural body on Monday sought to calm anger over a resolution on a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site which saw Israel accuse it of seeking to “rewrite history”.
More than 90 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to use U.S. veto power to block any United Nations resolutions seen as biased against Israel, one of the letter’s lead sponsors
TEL AVIV – The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday will debate a resolution that calls on member states to boycott Jewish settlements, the Jerusalem Post reported. The UNHRC is often charged with having an extreme anti-Israel bias. The resolution would
A global Muslim body called for a ban on products from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and pledged full support for the “inalienable rights” of the Palestinians. The demand came at the end of an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
A section of Israel’s separation barrier in east Jerusalem divides the Palestinian Shuafat refugee camp (right) from the Jewish settlement Pisgat Zeev Israeli authorities announced Wednesday they had uncovered findings proving for the first time the existence of an established
Ynetnews reports: The Israel Police said Monday morning that the first of ten bodies of terrorists who committed attacks in the recent wave of violence had been returned to the family overnight. The body of Ahmad Abu Shaaban was returned to his
The UN human rights investigator for Gaza and the West Bank called on Israel on Thursday to investigate what he called excessive force used by Israeli security against Palestinians and to prosecute perpetrators. Makarim Wibisono, U.N. special rapporteur on human
Ynetnews reports: A 30-year-old man was stabbed in the head and shoulder and moderately wounded on Tuesday afternoon at the entrance to Neve Daniel in Gush Etzion, in what bore all the signs of yet another terror attack targeting local
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday slammed Israel’s settlement activities as “provocative acts” that raise questions about the nation’s commitment to a two-state solution. The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, areas Israel
Israel’s Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said Thursday he has revoked the permanent residency permits of four Palestinians from east Jerusalem who allegedly killed Israelis in Jerusalem in recent attacks. The rare move is yet another Israeli attempt to stem the
The Times of Israel reports: Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan canceled a cultural event in East Jerusalem on Sunday, when he discovered the Palestinian Authority was behind it, his office announced. Erdan, however, discovered that a Palestinian Authority representative was
The British shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn has called for Palestinian leaders to be “more vocal in condemning violence”. Mr Benn has just returned from a three-day tour of Israel and the West Bank during which he met officials from the United Nations’
The Shin Bet security service on Wednesday published the transcript of an interrogation of two cousins aged 11 and 14 from East Jerusalem who went on a stabbing rampage two weeks ago and wounded a light rail security guard. The
BERLIN – Germany on Thursday strongly criticized Israel’s plans to push ahead with the building of hundreds of new settlements in East Jerusalem, saying it would undermine efforts to peacefully resolve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister
The U.S. State Department said in a press release Wednesday that it is “deeply concerned” that Israel continues to build apartments in disputed areas of Jerusalem and the West Bank.
