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Palestinian PM rejects Israeli plan to divide worshipping zone in Jerusalem
Ramallah: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye has rejected an Israeli plan to divide the Muslim worshipping zone in East Jerusalem between Jews and Muslims. Ishtaye made the remarks on Monday during the weekly…
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Israeli opposition leader testifies at Netanyahu’s corruption trial
Jerusalem: Israel’s opposition leader has testified at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial in Jerusalem. Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist party Yesh Atid and a major rival of Netanyahu, took the stand…
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Israel plans to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque between Muslims, Jews
Amit Halevi, a member of the Likud party, which has a slim majority in the Israeli Knesset (Israeli Parliament), has prepared a plan to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque for prayers between Muslims and…
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558 Palestinian prisoners serving life terms in Israeli prisons
The number of Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment in Israeli prisons has risen to 558, including 42 from occupied Jerusalem. The increase is attributed to a number of factors, including harsh…
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Israel: Amidst high murder rates; Arab minorities protest against cops
Jerusalem: Amid a high-record murder rate in Israel’s Palestinian society, dozens of Palestinians demonstrated in Jerusalem outside the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Protestors denounced the Israeli police and authorities…
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5 Palestinians killed, others injured in airstrike near Lebanon border
Beirut: Five members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) were reported killed and others injured in an airstrike. The attack targeted a PFLP site located in the eastern Lebanese…
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Epidemic kills all black sea urchins in Gulf of Aqaba: Israeli researchers
Jerusalem: Israeli researchers found that within just a few months a deadly epidemic killed all black sea urchin population in the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba, Tel Aviv University said. The researchers…
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Thousands of Israelis rally against govt’s state budget
Jerusalem: Thousands of Israelis rallied outside the Knesset (parliament) building in Jerusalem as lawmakers gathered for marathon votes on a contested state budget. The demonstrators’ leadership criticised in a statement on Tuesday…
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Israeli economists warn govt over high funds allocations
Jerusalem: An open letter, signed by 286 senior Israeli economists, warned of the consequences of the high funds recently approved by the government for the Jewish ultra-Orthodox sector, especially for its education…
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3,000 Israeli police deployed in Jerusalem ahead of flag march
The Israeli authorities has deployed more than 3,000 policemen throughout Jerusalem ahead of the annual Jerusalem Day flag march, which begins on Thursday afternoon, Palestinian media reported. The march comes less than…
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Palestine condemns Israel’s plan to hold ‘flag march’ in Jerusalem
Ramallah: The Palestinian presidency’s spokesman has condemned the Israeli government’s plan to hold the controversial “flag march” in East Jerusalem as scheduled on Thursday. Nabil Abu Rudeineh said on Wednesday in a…
- Pakistan
Pakistan in Israel to promote tolerance through Holocaust education
Jerusalem: Holocaust education will go a long way in clearing the “misconceptions” about Jews in Pakistan and promoting greater tolerance and understanding about the Abrahamic faith in the country, a member of the…
- Middle East
Palestinian militants fire rockets toward Jerusalem
Jerusalem: Palestinian militants continued to fire rockets to the Jerusalem area for the first time since the current round of violence started, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed. Israeli emergency services reported…
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Thousands rally in Jerusalem to support Israel’s judicial reform
Jerusalem: Tens of thousands of Israeli right-wing activists held a rally in Jerusalem, calling on the ruling coalition to press ahead with the contentious judicial reform. The rally was held on Thursday…
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Video: Israeli police release Turkish woman arrested at Al Aqsa mosque
Jerusalem: The Israeli occupation police on Tuesday arrested the Turkish woman from Al Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem for several hours before she was released. The 24-year-old Turkish woman named Ozgecan Mutlu…
