Jerusalem

The army claims that debris from an intercepted missile fired from Yemen was the cause of the fires that Israeli firemen were fighting on Monday west of Jerusalem. According to the Jerusalem region fire department, firefighters...

An ultranationalist Israeli politician serving as Jerusalem’s deputy mayor has requested that trash not be picked up at the French consulate following Paris’s decision to prohibit Israeli companies from an arms fair. The French ministry of...

The final Friday of Ramadan was stressful and solemn for Palestinian Muslims in Jerusalem, where small altercations broke out between worshippers and Israeli police guarding the entrance to the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest place in Islam....

Jerusalem’s normally busy streets were strangely quiet on Monday as a third day of deadly violence broke out in and around the Gaza Strip between Israel and Palestinian militants. “Jerusalem is indeed a ghost town,” said...

On Friday, a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue, killing seven people in one of the worst attacks on Israelis in recent memory that posed a threat of escalating unrest. One day prior...

There have been widespread protests in East Jerusalem against the eviction of Palestinian families. Many Israelis also joined the movement. Many people came down the road after evicting the family from their long stay in Sheikh...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has warned that the Palestinian crisis will not be resolved until the occupancy of the holy city of Jerusalem ends. He said the Palestinians would not leave their territory, no matter how...

The “significant upsurge in violence” in the West Bank, in and near Gaza, and in east Jerusalem “needs to stop immediately,” a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday. “The firing of...

An Israeli court has ordered the demolition of a mosque in a town in East Jerusalem. According to local Palestinian media, an Israeli court ruled that there was a “lack of permission” to build the mosque....

Israel signalled displeasure on Sunday with Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as its capital, with a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying it was a mistake to gainsay Israeli control over the whole city. The...