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The Latest Breaking News from Jerusalem

Israel, Gaza Militants Trade Fire as Mideast Tensions Mount

Palestinian militants fired several rockets into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip early Thursday and Israeli aircraft hit militant targets in Gaza, part of an escalation that was eerily similar to the run-up to last year’s Israel-Gaza war. The cross-border strikes came against the backdrop of Israeli-Palestinian tensions that have…

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Israeli war planes strike Gaza after rocket attack

Israel carried out air strikes in central Gaza before dawn on Thursday after a rocket launched from the Palestinian territory landed in Israel, Hamas officials and Israeli military sources said.

Reuters

Israeli police stop Jewish nationalist march in Jerusalem amid rising tensions

Israeli police on Wednesday blocked hundreds of far-right Jewish protesters from marching toward Jerusalem's Damascus Gate, the main entrance to the Old City's Muslim quarter, amid rising tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

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EXPLAINER: Why Mideast tensions are soaring yet again

Israeli, Palestinian and Arab leaders worked to calm tensions before a rare confluence of major Jewish, Christian and Muslim holidays

The Independent UK

Fragile coalition under threat in Israel: Arab party suspends government membership

The government of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is on the verge of collapse. This comes after the Arab-Israeli Raam party threatened to leave the ruling coalition over recent clashes in Jerusalem. More than 150 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli security forces. Bennett is now scrambling to hold…

France 24

Timeline: Al-Aqsa raids, closures and restrictions

A review of the major events that have marked the history of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.

Al Jazeera

Israeli ultra-nationalists to march in Jerusalem despite ban

A group of Israeli ultra-nationalists said it is determined to go ahead with a flag-waving march around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem’s Old City, brushing aside a police ban of an event that served as one of the triggers of last year’s Israel-Gaza war

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Londoner’s Diary: ‘Jerusalem is no comment on our green and pleasant land’

In today’s Diary: Jez Butterworth despairs at political critics / Suki Waterhouse finds unlikely inspiration / Johnny Rotten gets the Day-Lewis treatment / Ed Balls runs out of jokes / MP gym-session gets pointed

Evening Standard

Israeli Ultra-Nationalists to March in Jerusalem Despite Ban

A group of Israeli ultra-nationalists said it is determined to go ahead with a flag-waving march around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's Old City later Wednesday, brushing aside a police ban of an event that served as one of the triggers of last year's Israel-Gaza war. Israeli police said a…

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Five EU Countries Call For End to Jerusalem Unrest

Five European countries called Tuesday for an end to clashes in Jerusalem following a weekend of violence surrounding a holy site, in a joint statement issued after an emergency closed-door UN Security Council session. "Violence needs to stop immediately.

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UAE Summons Israeli Ambassador over Al-Aqsa Events

UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemy summoned Israeli ambassador to the UAE Amir Hayek to inform him of UAE's strong protest and denunciation of the events taking place in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, including attacks on civilians and incursions into holy places that resulted…

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U.S. officials to make emergency trip to calm tensions in Jerusalem

The U.S. fears of reprisal of the 2021 fighting between Israel and Hamas

Axios

Blinken, Middle East Leaders in Talks to Quell Israel-Palestinian Violence

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Israeli, Palestininan and Jordanian leaders to discuss recent violence in Israel and the West Bank that has escalated tensions in the region, officials said on Tuesday. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said he updated the top US diplomat on Tuesday about Israel's…

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No war, no retreat: Mideast foes resume risky balancing act

Days of violence in Jerusalem and an exchange of fire in Gaza overnight have raised the possibility that Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers will once again go to war, as they did less than a year ago

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UAE summons Israeli ambassador to protest against clashes in Al-Aqsa Mosque

The United Arab Emirates has summoned the Israeli ambassador to protest against clashes at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, the Gulf state's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.

Reuters

U.S. Blinken stresses importance of status quo at Jerusalem holy sites -statement

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed recent violence in Israel and the West Bank with his Jordanian counterpart and stressed the importance of maintaining the status quo at Jerusalem holy sites, the State Department said in a statement on Tuesday.

Reuters

Turkey says Erdogan, Israel's Herzog to speak after Jerusalem clashes

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will hold a phone call with Israel's President Isaac Herzog, after Israeli interventions on Palestinian worshippers at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque last week, Turkey's foreign minister said on Tuesday.

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Jordan on Alert to Counter Israeli Attacks on Al-Aqsa

Jordan’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Israeli Chargé d’Affaires on Monday to convey a message in protest of all Israeli provocative violations in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and to assert the need to respect worshipers’ right to practice their religious rites freely and without restrictions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Haitham Abul…

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Israel Hits Gaza after Rocket Attack

Israel carried out its first airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in months early Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave as tensions soar after a weekend of violence in Jerusalem. Warning sirens sounded in southern Israel Monday night after the rocket was fired from the enclave…

Daily Mirror

Israel airstrikes hit Palestine after rocket launched from Gaza as tensions soar

Israel has launched airstrikes on Palestine targets after its military said it shot down a rocket sent from the Gaza Strip with tensions having boiled over amid clashes at a Jerusalem shrine

Al Jazeera

Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip as tensions soar in Jerusalem

No casualties or injuries have been reported after Israel said it hit a Hamas weapons manufacturing site.

France 24

Israel intercepts rocket fired from Gaza as tensions soar

Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel for the first time in months on Monday, in a potentially major escalation after clashes at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem and a wave of attacks and military raids elsewhere.

Reuters

U.S. officials engaged with Israelis, Palestinians, Arab countries over tensions in Jerusalem

A number of U.S. officials engaged in phone calls with Israelis, Palestinians and Arab representatives in the region over the weekend to see to it that tensions in Jerusalem do not escalate, State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters on Monday.

Reuters

Jordan's King Abdullah warns Israeli moves in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque are threat to peace

Jordan's King Abdullah said on Monday that Israel's "unilateral" moves against Muslim worshippers at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque seriously undermined the prospects for peace in the region, state media said.

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Israel Coalition Faces New Split over Jerusalem Violence

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is working to hold his fractious coalition together after a split on the right and an Arab-Israeli party's threat to quit over violence in Jerusalem. Right-winger Bennett, a key figure in Israel's settlement movement, last year ended 12 continuous years of rule by Benjamin Netanyahu,…

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