Why is al-Aqsa mosque compound a recurrent flash point?
Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem is one of the most sacred sites in Islam. The compound is also claimed by Jews. It has been central to years of political conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians. On Sunday, hundreds of Jewish settlers and far right activists entered al-Aqsa mosque compound under the protection of Israeli […]
Egypt joins in condemnation of Israel over Temple Mount
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Monday joined Jordan in condemning Israel for permitting Jews to enter the Temple Mount, Haaretz reports. The ministry’s statement came a day after police arrested a number of Jews for violating visitation rules at the site on Sunday, when Jews observed the Tisha B’Av fast marking the destruction of the […]
Facebook takes down Hamas accounts
Facebook reportedly closed the account of Hamas leader Ismail Radwan on Facebook, in addition Sami Abu Zuhri, Fawzi Barhoum and Salah Bardawil, in the midst of municipal Gazan election season. Hamas leaders frequently use their social media accounts to garner support for terrorism and incitement to terror. Last week, Facebook closed the account of Islamic […]
Seven Jewish visitors ejected from Temple Mount on religious holiday
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Seven Jewish visitors were removed from Temple Mount by police on Sunday as thousands gathered in Jerusalem’s Old City to pray at the Wailing Wall on a Jewish fast day, Israeli media said. According to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, the seven, out of a group of about 300 Jewish visitors, were […]
Thousands of Jews pray at Wailing Wall in memory of ancient temples
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Thousands of Jews prayed at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday in memory of the destruction of the ancient Jewish temples, as hundreds of Israeli police patrolled the streets. The increase in security was meant to prevent confrontations as Orthodox Jews mark the annual fast day of Tisha […]
Israeli prison ‘like being inside a grave’
Amal al-Sada, a 28-year-old Palestinian woman from Hebron, had been visiting her jailed older brother for more than a decade before deciding to risk smuggling a SIM card to him – unaware of the price she would pay for the attempt. After spending eight months under house arrest in the Kseifa area of the Negev […]
Israel accuses World Vision aid worker of funding Hamas
Israel has accused a representative of the US-based Christian relief group World Vision of funnelling millions of dollars in aid money to Hamas fighters in Gaza, charges that the group denies. Briefing reporters on Thursday, a senior Israeli security official said that Mohammad El Halabi, World Vision’s manager of operations in Gaza, had siphoned off […]
Raising the Palestinian cause at the DNC
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Eva Putzova held a banner with a simple message just outside the Democratic National Convention (DNC) floor on Tuesday: “I support Palestinian rights.” “I think it’s time that Democratic candidates – Hillary, Bernie or anybody else – start taking the issue seriously and start a real national conversation and get behind all […]
Rabbi debunks myth, calls for peace
The Western Wall in Jerusalem is not part of Solomon’s Temple, announced the former president of the International Rabbinical Assembly, Rabbi Reuven Hammer, in an article published by The Jerusalem Post on July 3, 2016. Hammer accused some religious groups of attempting to monopolise Jewish life in Israel and endeavour to give sanctity to places […]
US accuses Israel of systematically seizing Palestinian land
The State Department on Tuesday accused Israel of systematically seizing Palestinian land after the Jewish state okayed the construction of 800 housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In the unusually strongly worded statement, spokesman John Kirby said the reports of new construction permits, which came Sunday as a response to two deadly […]