Occupied Jerusalem

In clear defiance of international disapproval of its settlement activities in Occupied Jerusalem and in an attempt to heighten already existing tensions in the city, Israel yesterday celebrated the...

Fierce confrontations have broken out in the early hours of Tuesday in many parts of occupied Jerusalem after Zionist settlers opened a synagogue next to Al Aqsa Mosque and...

Israel is continuing with its policy of demolishing the homes of Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem on the pretext that the properties do not have official permits. In at least...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the formation of a legal panel to examine ways to legalise settlement-outposts in the Occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. Media reports in...

Groups of Jews described by Palestinian sources as "extremists" have been entering the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem since the early hours of Monday, escorted by Israeli...

The number of Palestinians who have spent more than twenty five years in Israeli prisons has now reached 43 out of a total of around 6,500 Palestinian prisoners held...

A spokesman for the Palestinian security services has denied any relationship between the Palestinian Authority and the presence of civilian security officers from Blackwater, the private American company, in...

Israel has arrested underage Palestinians from the Silwan district in Occupied Jerusalem. Sources in the area say that security forces raided a number of homes at dawn, arresting five...

By Muhammad Jamal – Occupied Jerusalem Palestinian and Israeli security sources revealed on Saturday (09.10.2010) that the US security coordinator between Israel and Palestine, General Keith Dayton, has left...

The Royal Jordanian Committee for Jerusalem affairs has warned of a Zionist plan aimed at gaining full geographic and demographic control of the area surrounding the Al-Aqsa Mosque in...

Israeli military sources confirmed that Jewish settlers are now preparing to swamp the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem with thousands of housing units. This will come into effect immediately...

In the case known as Mughrabi Gate, Israel's central court in Occupied Jerusalem sentenced Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, to five months imprisonment,...

Israel's 'Committee of Construction and Local Planning' in occupied Jerusalem met today to examine the "Silwan Development Plan," which was put forward by the city's Mayor, Nir Barakat. The...

Jordan warned Israel on Monday over the enforcement of its scheme to confiscate property left by Palestinians in East Jerusalem following the occupation in 1967.   A Government spokesman,...

The Mufti of Egypt has condemned the "regular and continuous abusive practices" of the Israeli occupation authorities "which violate the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque" in occupied Jerusalem. The mosque...

Egypt's newly elected Patriarch of Alexandria, Pope Tawadros II, has announced that he will maintain the policy of his predecessor Pope Shenouda III of discouraging Coptic worshippers from visiting...

The Islamic Resistance Movement has expressed its concerns over the proposed deal between the Vatican State and Israel, which implies the acknowledgement of Israeli sovereignty over Christian churches and...

An Israeli court has issued a ruling which allows the municipal authorities in Occupied Jerusalem to destroy 29 Palestinian homes in the Silwan district of al-Bustan, south of the...

Coinciding with International Children's Day on 1 June, figures released by the Palestinian Ministry of Information show that 1,456 Palestinian children have been shot dead by Israelis since the...

The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, Atallah Hanna, has denounced Israeli actions in occupied Jerusalem imposed due to Jewish holidays. In a press statement released on Thursday, Archbishop Hanna...

It has been disclosed that the Israeli occupation authorities have seized hundreds of acres of agricultural land in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem for the benefit of illegal...

Jewish settler groups stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning, under the protection of the Israeli security forces which prevented hundreds of Palestinian worshippers from entering the mosque to protect...

A study conducted by Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage in Israel has revealed that Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding area has been subjected to around 100 attacks and...

Jordan's Foreign Minister has condemned Jewish extremists' assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem. Large numbers of Muslims went to the sacred site following announcements in the Hebrew media...

The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has condemned the Israeli occupation authority's approval of 130 new housing units in the settlement of Gilo...

The President of Israel has warned that a response can be expected from Arabs and Muslims following arson attacks on mosques by extremist Jewish settlers. Shimon Peres was speaking...

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has rejected France's criticism of the decision to construct hundreds of illegal settlement units in Occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli government maintains that it has the...

Israeli soldiers swept into Wadi al-Rababeh neighbourhood of occupied Jerusalem on Monday and detained eight Palestinian residents of Silwan, Tobas and Beit Amer. Armoured bulldozers accompanied the soldiers in...

The Palestinian Liberation organisation (PLO) on Thursday called for athletes to boycott the 2013 Israeli marathon in Jerusalem calling it "a racist event which alludes to occupied Jerusalem being...

More than 40 extremist Israeli settlers, including senior Likud officials, invaded Al-Aqsa Mosque through the Maghrabi Gate on Tuesday morning. They said they were commemorating the 'unification' of Jerusalem....

The Director-general of the Israeli "Religious Affairs Ministry" announced during a session in the Knesset that the ministry is seeking to review a law that will allow Jews to...

Israel has denounced a paper by the Scottish Church which denies "Jews' special claim to the land of Israel." The paper entitled "The Inheritance of Abraham," which was published...