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by Jerome Cartillier with Sarah Benhaida in Bethlehem Agence France-Presse JERUSALEM, Undefined – US President Donald Trump called on Israelis and Palestinians to make compromises for peace Tuesday as he wrapped up a closely watched visit, but offered no specifics on how he would resolve the decades-old conflict. In a speech toward the end of his visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Trump offered a forceful defence of the Jewish state and pledged to […]
by Laurent Lozano Agence France Presse JERUSALEM, Israel (AFP) — A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting a popular tourist spot in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four and wounding 17 others, authorities said. The driver was also killed at the location overlooking holy sites such as the Dome of the Rock and providing one of the most spectacular views of Jerusalem. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the […]
(Reuters) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned the U.S. ambassador to Israel to discuss the U.S. abstention in a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an end to settlement-building. Separately, the envoys of 10 other nations were called in to the Israeli Foreign Ministry to be reprimanded on Sunday, and Netanyahu had more harsh words for Washington over Friday’s U.N. vote. An Israeli spokesman gave no details of when Netanyahu would meet U.S. […]
UNITED NATION, United States (AFP) — The UN Security Council will vote on Thursday on an Egyptian-drafted resolution demanding that Israel immediately halt its settlement activities in the Palestinian territories and east Jerusalem. A similar resolution was vetoed by the United States in 2011, and it remained uncertain if the measure would be adopted this time. Egypt circulated the draft late Wednesday and a vote was scheduled for 3 pm (2000 GMT) on Thursday. The […]
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) – by Joe Dyke Israel revived plans on Wednesday to build 500 new homes for Jewish settlers in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, an ominous sign for Palestinians wary of a Donald Trump presidency, an NGO said. “The political significance of this action is that it is the first plan to be promoted since the US elections,” Betty Herschman from the Ir Amim NGO said. The plan for 500 housing units in Ramat Shlomo, […]
JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) – by Joe Dyke Three alleged assailants were killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis on Friday, security forces said, shattering weeks of relative calm in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The attacks were a reminder of persistent tensions that continue to alarm the international community and came a day after UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned the two-state solution was “further than ever” from becoming reality. In the first incident, a man […]
Israeli security forces scuffled with Muslim worshippers outside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque on Tuesday (April 26), after removing Jewish worshippers who violated visitation rules from the volatile site. In a video obtained by Reuters, Israeli security could be seen pushing a small crowd of Muslim worshippers who were angry at the violation and by the presence of the Jewish visitors at the site. Israeli media reported that the tension began when Jewish visitors laid on the […]
JERUSALEM,Israel (Reuters) – A bomb blew up a bus and set fire to another in Jerusalem on Monday (April 18), wounding 21 people in an attack that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked to a six-month-old wave of Palestinian street violence. There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any armed Palestinian factions for the blast. Israeli officials declined to assign direct blame, saying only that two of the casualties had not yet been identified […]
(REUTERS) — An explosion aboard a bus in Jerusalem caused around 20 casualties on Monday, Israeli media said, and police said it may have been a militant attack or the result of a fire from other causes. Television images showed smoke billowing from two burned-out buses, one of which apparently set fire to the other, on Derech Hebron, an area in southwest Jerusalem close to the boundary with the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Smoke billowed over the […]
(AFP) — Israeli authorities announced Wednesday they had uncovered findings proving for the first time the existence of an established human settlement in Jerusalem as far back as 7,000 years ago. A dig in the annexed east Jerusalem neighbourhood Shuafat revealed two homes with parts of walls and floors intact, as well as “pottery vessels, flint tools, and a basalt bowl” characteristic of the Chalcolithic era, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. The discoveries came to […]
For thirteen days Palestinians in Jerusalem have been staging a protest against Israeli imposed restriction orders, that banish two men from the city. Two Jerusalemites have been ordered to leave the city and their homes for a period of up to six months. Samer Abu Aisha, who has also been at the protests, is one of the men facing expulsion. “On the 21st of December, my lawyer called me to go to the court, what […]
