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Israel To Excavate Ancient Biblical Pool As Tourist Attraction

Israelis announced controversial plans to excavate the 2000-year-0ld Pool of Siloam and Pilgrimage Road, open to tourists in 2025.

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Israeli police stopped Jordan envoy from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque

The incident reflected heightened sensitivity about Al-Aqsa compound under Israel’s new ultranationalist government.

Al Jazeera

Jordan Protests to Israel after Envoy Blocked from Holy Site

Jordan summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman on Tuesday to protest a move by Israeli police to block the Jordanian envoy from entering a volatile holy site in Jerusalem. The incident quickly escalated tensions between the neighbors and reflected the heightened sensitivity around the sacred compound under Israel’s new ultranationalist…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Jordan protests to Israel after envoy blocked from holy site

Jordan has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman to protest a move by Israeli police to block the Jordanian envoy from entering a volatile holy site in Jerusalem

The Independent UK

Gemma Collins 'scared' to weigh herself after exercise break due to 'agonising' injury

The former TOWIE star told how she hurt her back during a trip to Jerusalem last month with her husband-to-be Rami Hawash as the “agonising” injury has left her unable to workout

Daily Mirror

Armenian museum reopens in Jerusalem's Old City

A 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter has reopened its doors as a museum, a hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide

The Independent UK

Nighttime Israeli Arrests Haunt Palestinian Kids, Families

Yousef Mesheh was sleeping in his bunk bed when Israeli forces stormed into his home at 3 a.m. Within moments, the 15-year-old Palestinian said he was lying on the floor as troops punched him, shouting insults. A soldier struck his mother’s chest with his rifle butt and locked her in…

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Nighttime Israeli arrests haunt Palestinian kids, families

The Israeli military arrested and interrogated hundreds of Palestinian teenagers in 2022 in the occupied West Bank without ever issuing a summons or notifying their families

The Independent UK

Israel kills 3 Palestinians as raids continue in West Bank

More deadly Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank as Palestinians are again gunned down by troops.

Al Jazeera

Israeli president invites Turkey's Erdogan to visit, receives envoy

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday invited his Turkish counterpart President Tayyip Erdogan to visit the country as he received Ankara's new ambassador in another token of the countries' recently warming ties.

Reuters

OIC Warns Israel Against Escalating Religious Conflict

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned on Tuesday against any Israeli assault on the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, including constant provocations and abuses and the daily attacks of Israeli occupation authority. Following an extraordinary meeting in Jeddah, the OIC called on the UN Security Council "to assume its…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel's Netanyahu races ahead with hard-line agenda

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government has wasted no time implementing its ultra-nationalist agenda

The Independent UK

OIC to Hold Extraordinary Meeting Tuesday to Address Israeli Violations at Al-Aqsa

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold an extraordinary meeting for its executive committee on Tuesday to address the Israeli violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The meeting will be held at its headquarters in Jeddah. Tensions ran high at Al-Aqsa last week when Israel's new far-right security…

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Palestinian FM: Israel Revokes Travel Permit over UN Move

The Palestinian foreign minister said Sunday that Israel revoked his travel permit, part of a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians that Israel's new hard-line government announced days ago. Riad Malki said in a statement that he was returning from the Brazilian president's inauguration when he was informed that…

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Israeli Police Break up Palestinian Parents’ Committee Meet

Israeli police broke up a meeting by Palestinian parents in east Jerusalem about their children's education, claiming it was unlawfully funded by the Palestinian Authority. The operation Saturday came just days after Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist with a long record of anti-Arab rhetoric and stunts, began…

The Independent UK

Israeli police break up Palestinian parents' committee meet

Israeli police have broken up a meeting by Palestinian parents in east Jerusalem about their children’s education, saying it was unlawfully funded by the Palestinian Authority

Asharq Al-Awsat

Israel Defends Ben-Gvir, Int’l Community Cautions against Provocations at Al-Aqsa

Israel faced widespread criticism, including from the United States and Russia, during an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss the visit of the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, to al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The international community warned that the new development could lead to a…

Al Jazeera

Israeli police arrest two over Jerusalem cemetery vandalism

Two teenagers are suspected of vandalising more than 30 graves at the Protestant Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem.

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Reuters

Israeli police arrest two suspects in Protestant cemetery vandalism

Israeli police said on Friday they arrested two people suspected of vandalising a Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem earlier this week.

The Independent UK

Israel police arrest 2 teens in attack on Christian cemetery

The Israeli police have arrested two teenagers who they said vandalized over two dozen Christian graves in a historic Jerusalem cemetery earlier this week

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Security Council Members Stress Al Aqsa Mosque Status Quo

UN Security Council members voiced concern on Thursday and stressed the need to maintain a status quo at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, days after Israel's new far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefly visited the site. The decades-old status quo allows only Muslim worship at the compound. An…

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U.N. Security Council members stress Al Aqsa mosque status quo

U.N. Security Council members voiced concern on Thursday and stressed the need to maintain a status quo at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, days after Israel's new far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefly visited the site.

Reuters

Analysis-New Arab allies face dilemma as Israel shifts hard-right

Israel's sharp tilt to what is likely to be the most hard right government in its history puts its new Arab allies in the awkward position of having to deal with ultra-nationalists while trying to do more than just pay lip service to the Palestinian cause.

The Guardian - UK

Outcry over footage of men smashing cross at Jerusalem cemetery

Vandals’ clothing leads to claims they are Jewish extremists who have desecrated over 30 Christian graves

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Security Council to Discuss Israeli Minister's Al-Aqsa Visit

The UN Security Council will meet Thursday to discuss the controversial visit to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound by an Israeli minister that has enraged Palestinians. The 15-member Council will convene at 3:00 pm (2000 GMT) at the United Nations headquarters in New York following a request by the United Arab…

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