Jerusalem

A Palestinian teenager was injured on Sunday night when a Jewish settler suddenly attacked him with a knife in Occupied Jerusalem. According to local sources, 17-year-old Mohamed al-Natsha suffered a moderate injury in his neck when a settler stabbed him in Salahuddin Street. The boy was rushed to hospital for medical assistance. However, there was no information if the Israeli …

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and preacher of al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Mohammed Hussein on Friday said that the Nakba is an ongoing process with different forms and an aim to completely eliminate the Palestinian presence. This was voiced during the Friday sermon at al-Aqsa Mosque which marked the 72nd anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. Sheikh Hussein in his sermon spoke about …

Israeli undercover agents on Monday evening kidnaped 13 Jerusalemite young men and minors from Ein al-Fawqa Plaza in Silwan district, east of the occupied holy city. Eyewitnesses said that plain-clothes officers savagely beat the young men and teenagers, hauled them and bundled them into a police vehicle. They added that the police officers took the detainees to al-Moskobiya detention center …

A Palestinian man from occupied East Jerusalem completed yesterday 25 years behind Israeli bars for resisting the occupation, today said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). It said Ayman Abdul Majeed Sidr, 54, is serving a life term in prison. He was arrested in 1995 and was denied release during a prisoners’ exchange deal in 2011. Sidr is married and had …

Father Atallah Hanna, Archbishop of the Palestinian Orthodox Church in Occupied Jerusalem, on Saturday called for joint national action to thwart Israel’s annexation project in the occupied West Bank and all conspiracies aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause. Hanna said that statements and speeches “are not enough” to confront the “deal of the century” and Israel’s threats to annex the …

Israel’s army have arrested 1,500 Palestinians including 35 women and 240 children since the beginning of this year; the Palestinian Prisoners Centre for Studies reported. The Centre’s media spokesman, Riyad Al-Ashqar, said Israel routinely arrest Palestinians as a tool of repression and collective punishment, even during lockdowns to combat the coronavirus pandemic. “The Israeli occupation endangers the Palestinians’ lives by …

Palestinian lawmaker Ahmed Attoun has said that Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque are going through the most difficult times of their history, especially during the holy month of Ramadan. Describing Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque as part of the Islamic faith, MP Attoun urged the Muslim nation to move to defend the holy city and its Mosque and protect their …

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today accused Israel of discriminating against Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem who want to return home in light of the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. It said in a statement that in its efforts to gather information about Palestinians stranded abroad, mainly students, due to the coronavirus outbreak in order to help them to …

Democratic presidential candidate says embassy ‘should not have been moved’, but now that it’s done, he would not move it back Joe Biden says he will keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem if elected president, despite calling Donald Trump’s controversial decision to move the office from Tel Aviv “short-sighted and frivolous.” “It should not have been moved,” the …

Israeli occupation police threats to arrest and fine a Jerusalem musaharati for doing his traditional Ramadan job aims at ending the Palestinian presence in the occupied city and change its traditions and culture, today said the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates. Israeli occupation police prevented this morning the Ramadan musaharati, the person who wakes people up before dawn …