Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told senior ministers he is lifting restrictions on settlement building in East Jerusalem, a statement said on Sunday, immediately after the city's municipal government approved permits for the building of hundreds of new homes in the area.
President Donald Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Washington in early February during a phone call in which they discussed the importance of strengthening the US-Israeli relationship, the White House said on Sunday (Jan 22).
A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting a popular tourist spot in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four and wounding 17 others, authorities said.
Jerusalem's city hall canceled a vote on Wednesday on applications to build nearly 500 new homes for Israelis in East Jerusalem, a municipal official said, plans that had drawn U.S. criticism in a raging dispute over settlements.
Israel could advance plans this week for thousands more settlement homes in annexed east Jerusalem in defiance of a landmark UN resolution demanding an end to such activity.
A senior aide to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would be a major focus for Trump.
At least 82 percent of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem live in poverty, almost two times of the figure in entire Jerusalem, an Israeli research center said Wednesday.
Jerusalem is bracing for an annual Jewish nationalist flag-bearing parade to mark Israel's 1967 capture of Arab East Jerusalem late Sunday, an event that could further instigate already months-long tensions between Israel and Palestinians.
A total of 50 Palestinians, including at least 10 children, had been killed amid the recent flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian tensions since the start of October, Palestine's Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.
Israel said on Monday it is working to thwart a Palestinian proposal to a United Nations body to recognize the Jerusalem site of the Western Wall as a Muslim holy site.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Palestinian incitement is responsible for the recent bout of violence in Jerusalem's flashpoint Temple Mount site.
Two Israeli soldiers were seriously injured and another one lightly injured in an apparent vehicular attack on Thursday afternoon in the West Bank, a spokesperson for the Israeli emergency services confirmed to Xinhua.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel would continue to build houses throughout Jerusalem, including east Jerusalem where the Palestinians aspire to build the capital for their future state.
Tens of thousands of ultra-nationalist Jews marched Sunday through east Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter, sparking scuffles between Palestinians and the police.
Israel's Supreme Court rejected Monday a petition to reroute an annual ultra-nationalistic Jewish parade that marches through a Palestinian neighborhood of East Jerusalem, with dozens of marchers shouting anti-Arab calls.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Palestinian Authority of incitement as triggering the deadly attack on a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday and urged the international community to denunciate terror and end Palestinian incitement.
The United States on Wednesday reiterated its opposition to Israel's decision to build more settler homes in East Jerusalem, saying the move could "exacerbate " an already-tense situation there.
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