The Latest Breaking News from East Jerusalem

With war in Gaza raging, tensions in annexed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank are at boiling point

‘We can’t stand this suffering for long,’ Palestinian activists in East Jerusalem warn.

Palestinians in East Jerusalem are debating voting in municipal elections, but most are expected to boycott again.

Why do some call it an ‘apartheid’ and what does the occupation look like in practice?

The ICJ will hear 52 countries on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

This news report highlights the growth of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and the potential implications for peace negotiations in the region.

On Sunday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu turned down a Hamas offer to end the war. It’s only the latest such instance.

Activists say a controversial deal to build a luxury hotel could destroy part of East Jerusalem’s historical Armenian quarter, accusing the company behind the plan of paying people to seize land by force. As Armenian Christians celebrate Christmas on Saturday, those who call Jerusalem’s Old City home say they are…

In East Jerusalem, tensions between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians they are trying to dislodge have been rising in the context of the war in Gaza. Our reporters visited the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood and the Old City, which are symbolic of what Palestinians say is a wider effort to remove…

Human rights groups say Israel stepped up arrests in the occupied West Bank during the war. Only a fraction of those arrested have been released as part of hostage and prisoner exchanges.

Two men, reportedly brothers from East Jerusalem, shot dead at scene after attack that killed three people