Dozens of Jewish settlers forced their way into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa complex on Sunday in celebration of the Jewish New Year, Anadolu reports. In a statement, the Jerusalem Awqaf Department said 76 settlers backed by Israeli […]
An Israeli court yesterday ordered that Al-Qa’qa’ Mosque, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, be demolished because it was built without planning permission, Anadolu reported. The court gave Palestinians 21 days to challenge the […]
The Jerusalem District court yesterday ordered the eviction of Nasser Rajabi and his family from their home in the Batan Al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Centre, which monitors […]
The Israeli occupation authorities today handed a former Palestinian prisoner from occupied East Jerusalem a notice informing him of their intention to revoke his residency rights in the holy city, according to a local source. […]
Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian teen on Wednesday, after breaking into his house in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Al-Issawiya. The 14-year-old Palestinian child was identified as Abdullah Amjad Obaid. Over the last few […]
Israeli occupation forces today demolished several structures including shacks in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Issawiya, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli municipality crews accompanied by police and bulldozers broke into the neighborhood and […]
Israeli bulldozers demolished a residential building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabber Tuesday morning, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli police escorted three bulldozers into the al-Sal‘a neighborhood and cordoned off […]
Israeli police tonight shot and killed a Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City, according to witnesses and the Palestinian Red Crescent. The Red Crescent said police did not allow its crews to reach the Palestinian […]
Jewish settlers set fire early this morning to 13 Palestinian vehicles in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Safafa, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local sources told WAFA that the arsonists – believed […]
Three Palestinian brothers and their families found themselves homeless today after the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem demolished their three-apartment building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan under the pretext of construction without a […]
While welcoming a protest letter signed by European diplomats against Israel’s plans to commence construction in an East Jerusalem area known as E1, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) urged Europe to turn its words into […]
Over 27,000 Palestinian Muslim worshippers today attended Eid al-Adha prayers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The worshippers made their way in the early morning hours to the mosque compound […]
A 12-year-old Palestinian child was kidnapped by undercover Israeli soldiers yesterday from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya and released hours later, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local witnesses said that undercover […]
Israeli police today stormed two Palestinian-run cultural centers in the occupied city of Jerusalem and seized documents, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Local sources reported that Israeli police and intelligence officers stormed the […]
Israeli occupation forces today detained Adnan Gheith, the Palestinian Authority’s Governor of Jerusalem, after raiding his home in the city. Israeli police raided and searched the house of Gheith in the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of […]
A Palestinian family from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukaber was forced to demolish its own home by the Israeli municipality today, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Mohammad Abu Turki said he […]
Israeli forces arrested nine Palestinians in the occupied territories on Thursday, including a recently released prisoner, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS). Israeli soldiers detained Juma Tayeh, from the village of Kufr Nimeh, in […]
A joint paper by Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Al-Haq, and the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Centre (JLAC) exposed how systematic neglect and de-development of Palestinian healthcare have left Palestinian communities in East […]
The family of an unarmed autistic Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli police have called for a probe into an alleged absence of footage in a heavily monitored part of Jerusalem where the man was […]
Israeli forces injured eight Palestinians on Saturday during a raid of the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Isawiya, said the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS). The occupation forces raided the neighborhood, provoking clashes with local […]
Israeli forces yesterday arrested Khalil Tafakji, head of the maps department at the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem, the news agency Anadolu reported. A source in the Tafakji family told Anadolu that large numbers of occupation […]
Church leaders in Jerusalem said today in a joint statement that an Israeli court’s ruling on the property of the Greek Orthodox Church at Jaffa Gate of the occupied old city of Jerusalem threatens Christian […]
Israeli municipal staff today handed demolition orders against 30 Palestinian houses in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya under the pretext of construction without a permit, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Muhammad Abu […]
The Jerusalem District Court rejected Tuesday, an appeal by the Palestinian Sumreen family to prevent Israeli authorities from evicting them from their home, located in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. The 18-member Sumreen family […]
Israeli forces today detained at least eleven Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, including two teenagers, according to The Palestinian news agency WAFA. Former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk addressed the international legal […]
A Palestinian infant and her grandparents suffered last night from suffocation after Israeli forces fired a tear gas bomb at their home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, according to the Palestinian news agency […]
Two Palestinian brothers from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan were forced today to demolish their own home by the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem. Feras and Iyad Da’na said they were forced to demolish […]
A Jewish settler today attacked an elderly Palestinian man in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, pepper-spraying him in the face, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Eyewitnesses said that a Jewish settler approached […]
Israeli forces detained at least seven Palestinians during raids across the occupied West Bank on Saturday night and Sunday morning. In the Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Jouz, two brothers were detained after their homes were […]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has submitted a counter-proposal to US President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘deal of the century’ to the diplomatic Quartet – a group comprising the United Nations, European Union, Russia, and the US, […]
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