Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations on Sunday, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters
After our spiritual journey to the Old City and West Bank, the realities of life caught up to us.
Israeli police clashed with Palestinian mourners packed around the coffin of killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh at the start of her funeral procession in Jerusalem on Friday.
The United States has officially shuttered its consulate in Jerusalem, downgrading the status of its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians by folding it into the US Embassy to Israel.
Israel tightened its blockade of the Gaza Strip yesterday, partly over kites carrying firebombs to set alight Israeli farmland, as concerns mounted over whether the rudimentary devices could spark another war.
US President Donald J Trump did not mince his words: President Harry S Truman, a Democrat, made the United States the first country to recognise Israel's statehood (May 14, 1948), yet his own December 6, 2017 decision to shift the US embassy to Jerusalem, the first country to do so, on May 14, 2018, may have converted the logical 1948 recognition decision into a 2018 conflict invitation.
The United States officially opens its deeply controversial Jerusalem embassy in a ceremony that included a video address by President Donald Trump.
The US Embassy in Israel will move to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, US Vice President Mike Pence says in a speech to the Israeli parliament that highlighted a policy shift that has stoked Palestinian anger and international concern.
Palestinian officials have voiced outrage over President Donald Trump’s threat to cut funding to the Palestinian Authority, calling his tweets “blackmail” in the aftermath of the US administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Pope Francis, speaking hours before US President Donald Trump's announcement on Jerusalem, calls for the city's "status quo" to be respected, saying new tension in the Middle East would further inflame world conflicts.
President Donald Trump will announce on Wednesday that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move its embassy there, breaking with longtime US policy and potentially stirring unrest.
Strapped for cash in a Tokyo hotel, Albert Einstein wrote his take on life on a note and handed it to the bellboy instead of a tip. The physicist's formula for happy living fetched $1.3 million on Tuesday, a Jerusalem auction house said.
Though Jerusalem is about nine kilometers from Bethlehem, the Bangladesh U-23 football team players have apparently been spending anxious hours due to the unrest over new Israeli security measures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound which left three Palestinians dead over the last week.
Six people are killed in the bloodiest spate of Israeli-Palestinian violence for years, prompted by new security Israeli measures at Jerusalem's holiest site.
Three assailants open fire on Israeli police in Jerusalem's Old City before fleeing to a nearby highly sensitive holy site and being killed by security forces, police say.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas makes his first stopover in Dhaka and seeks Bangladesh's 'continuous support in international forums for Palestinian concern.
Israel and Jordan have agreed on moves aimed at reducing tensions surrounding a prominent holy site in Jerusalem.
Four Palestinians are shot dead and a fifth wounded in attacks on Israelis in east Jerusalem and the West Bank Saturday, as violence that has fuelled concerns of an uprising showed no let-up.
Palestinians torched a site revered by Jews in the West Bank overnight, Israeli and Palestinian sources said on Friday.
