Posts Tagged: Eastern Jerusalem
UN Chief Calls for End to Israeli ‘Occupation’ on 50th Anniversary of Six-Day War
JNS.org - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed concern with Israel’s “occupation” in the disputed territories on the Gregorian calendar’s 50th anniversary of the start of...
Netanyahu Presented With Plan to Transfer Some Eastern Jerusalem Neighborhoods to Palestinian Municipal Control
JNS.org - Knesset member Dr. Anat Berko (Likud) has presented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan to separate some eastern Jerusalem neighborhoods from the...
Palestinians Clash With Israeli Police Over Yom Kippur, One Dead in Riots
JNS.org - Riots broke out in various Palestinian neighborhoods of eastern Jerusalem on Tuesday evening soon after the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of...
20 Palestinians Arrested in Jerusalem Anti-Terror Raid
JNS.org - Israeli police and border patrol forces on Thursday arrested at least 20 east Jerusalem Palestinians suspected of participating in terror and criminal activity. Authorities also confiscated...
Israel Freezes Returning Terrorists’ Bodies to Families After Funeral Incitement
JNS.org - Some 1,000 people attended the eastern Jerusalem funeral of Palestinian terrorist Ala Abu Jamal on Monday, where anti-Israel slogans were chanted, in violation of...
Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas Rejects Joe Biden’s Peace Initiative
JNS.org - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday rejected a peace initiative that was proposed by US Vice President Joe Biden during their two-hour meeting...
Israel Razes 2 Terrorists’ Homes in East Jerusalem
JNS.org - Israeli security forces on Monday razed the homes of two terrorists in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. The demolition was carried out...
Terror Cell Uncovered in Eastern Jerusalem
JNS.org - An Israeli Arab terror cell in Jerusalem was uncovered by the Israeli Shin Bet security service and police force recently. The suspects who were...
2 Arab Educators in Jerusalem Fired for Incitement Against Israeli Soldiers
JNS.org - A principal and a teacher at an Arab elementary school in eastern Jerusalem were fired this week for allegedly inciting and encouraging violence against...
Hamas Joins Fatah/PA Campaign Claiming Temple Mount Jewish Takeover
JNS.org - The deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said Friday that the Gaza-ruling terror group intends “to join” the new "Al-Aqsa intifada,” Israel’s...
Iceland Capital Will Limit Israel Boycott to ‘Occupied Areas,’ Mayor Says
JNS.org - Reykjavik Mayor Dagur B. Eggertsson told the RUV broadcaster that Iceland’s capital would limit its boycott of Israel to “occupied areas,” the Iceland Monitor reported....
EU Parliament Backs Labels for Products Made Beyond Israel’s Pre-1967 Lines
JNS.org - On Thursday, the European Union’s parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of a resolution to differentiate labels on products made in Judea and Samaria, eastern...
Poll: 52% of Eastern Jerusalem Arabs Prefer Israeli Citizenship
JNS.org - Half of eastern Jerusalem’s Arab residents -- 52 percent --would prefer to be Israeli citizens, while only 45 percent of them would prefer to be citizens of...
5 Teens Injured in Bus Stoning in Eastern Jerusalem
JNS.org - Five teenagers, four of them Israeli and one Palestinian, were lightly wounded Tuesday when a bus and several private vehicles traveling through the A-Tur...
