Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of al-Aqsa, a mosque on the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of al-Aqsa, a mosque on the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of al-Aqsa, a mosque on the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of al-Aqsa, a mosque on the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem.
What does a mosque far from Gaza have to do with the violence in Israel?
My dream has always been to see my people in a mass movement of nonviolent resistance. I have spent most of my adult life making this appeal to my fellow Palestinians and building the relationships we need with the international bodies who can help us. And for one of the first times in my life,…
Tensions over the Israeli decision to put metal detectors and other security equipment on a Jerusalem site holy to both Jews and Muslims exploded into deadly clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the city and the West Bank on Friday in the worst outbreak of violence there in recent years. As simmering outrage…
JERUSALEM — Two Arab-Israeli teenage girls stabbed a security guard near the Ramle central bus station, police said. Initial news reports called the attack nationally motivated. The teens reportedly said during questioning that they carried out the attack as “revenge for the situation in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.” The girls, 13, reportedly pulled kitchen knives out…
As the group of Orthodox Jews came near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City, one began to mumble while staring down at his mobile phone. Another looked up in awe, eyes half shut in concentration. The woman’s lips moved silently. Asked afterwards whether they had prayed, a violation of an 800-year-old ban…
The grand mufti of Jerusalem said in an interview with an Israeli television station that there has never been a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. There has been a mosque on the site “since the creation of the world,” Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, who is in charge of the holy Muslim Al-Aksa…
Palestinian officials reacted warily on Sunday to what U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hailed as Jordan’s “excellent suggestion” to calm Israeli-Palestinian violence by putting a sensitive Jerusalem holy site under constant video monitoring. “This is a new trap,” Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said on Voice of Palestine radio, accusing Israel of planning to use…
Three Palestinian men were indicted for planning to attack activist Yehuda Glick and right-wing lawmaker Moshe Feiglin during a visit to the Temple Mount. The men, ages 18 to 21 from eastern Jerusalem, were charged over the weekend with conspiracy to injure a person using weapons and with nationalistic motivation. The attack was to occur…
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