Standoff At Jerusalem Holy Site After Metal Detectors Removed
A tense standoff was underway between Israel and Muslim worshippers at a Jerusalem holy site Wednesday despite the removal of ...
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Israel Removes Metal Detectors From Jerusalem Holy Site
Israel removed metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site before dawn on Tuesday and said they would no ...
Trump Envoy Heads To Israel For Holy Site Crisis Talks
A top aide to US President Donald Trump was due in Israel Monday in a bid to ease tensions over ...
Fears of More Israeli-Palestinian Violence Over Holy Site
Stabbings and clashes that left six people dead raised fears on Saturday of further Israeli-Palestinian violence as tensions mount over ...
Israel Freezes Palestinian Housing Plan After Settlers Object
Israeli ministers have frozen a plan to allow for the construction of thousands of Palestinian homes in a West Bank ...
Trump Envoy Mediates Water Deal Between Israel, Palestinians
US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace envoy said Thursday Israel would supply the Palestinians with millions of cubic metres ...
Israeli Minister Backs Annexing Settlements Into Jerusalem
Israel's intelligence minister proposed on Monday to annex five settlements into the Jerusalem municipality, while also removing around 100,000 Palestinians ...
US Reviews Ties With UNESCO Over Hebron Decision
The United States said on Friday it was reviewing ties with UNESCO after the UN cultural agency declared the Old ...
UNESCO Puts Hebron On Endangered Heritage List, Outraging Israel
UNESCO on Friday declared the Old City of Hebron an endangered world heritage site, sparking outrage from Israel in a ...
Palestinians Hail UNESCO Hebron Vote Slammed By Israel
The Palestinians hailed a UNESCO decision Friday to label the heart of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron a ...
UN Reports Substantial Increase In Israeli Settlements
Israel has announced a substantial increase in settlements in the past three months despite a United Nations resolution demanding a ...
Israeli Settlement Building Soars, Official Data Shows
Building starts on settler homes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank soared by 70 percent in the year to March 2017, ...
Israel Plans Most Settlement Homes Since 1992
Israel has so far this year advanced its highest number of settlement projects since 1992, the defence minister said Sunday, ...
Israel Advances Settlement Plans Despite Trump Plea
Israel has advanced plans for more than 3,000 homes in West Bank settlements this week, despite US President Donald Trump's ...
Israel Advances Plans For Further 1,500 Settler Homes
Israel has advanced plans for a further 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Peace Now said ...
Netanyahu Tells Israeli Settlers ‘nobody Will Be Uprooted’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told Israeli settlers marking 50 years since the Six-Day War he would keep building ...
Billions Spent On Settlers Since Israel Captured West Bank
Successive Israeli governments have invested billions of dollars over the past 50 years on settlements in the occupied West Bank, ...
Jerusalem, So Close, Still Out of Reach For Many Palestinians
He lives only a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem but for Palestinian Abu Bashir the city and its sacred sites might ...
Trump Will Not Move US Embassy To Jerusalem For Now
President Donald Trump postponed moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on Thursday, avoiding what would be a provocative ...
For Jerusalem Palestinians, A Dilemma To Seek Israeli Citizenship
It's a dilemma many Palestinians from Jerusalem confront: Resign yourself to becoming an Israeli citizen or press ahead as a ...