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Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said security forces shut the door on protesters inside the mosque in a tactic previously used to restore calm.

The incident comes as tensions between Israelis and Palestinians are high after the torching of a Palestinian home in the West Bank last week by suspected Jewish extremists that killed a Palestinian toddler and severely wounded his parents and 4-year-old brother.

The attack prompted pledges by Israel’s government to get tougher on Jewish vigilantes who have repeatedly attacked Palestinians over the years.

As of June, the number of individuals held in Israeli jails under administrative detention – a practice that allows the holding of terrorism suspects without charges or trial – included 370 Palestinians and two foreigners, but not a single Israeli Jew, according to...

Thousands of Israeli people took to the streets over the weekend to warn against a radicalised and violent fringe growing within the country, following the arson attack on a Palestinian family home in the West Bank by extremists and the stabbing of six people at a Jerusalem Gay...

Authorities are much more lenient toward Jewish extremists than they are toward Palestinians suspected of militant activity, critics say.

The Palestinians toddler was burned to death a day after an anti-gay ultra-Orthodox man stabbed a 16-year-old Jewish girl during a rampage against marchers at Jerusalem’s gay pride parade. “Of course, what is better than the No. 1 most-wanted target?” Members of...

A 16-year-old died of her injuries after an attack by Yishai Shlissel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, at a gay pride event last week in Jerusalem.

“I join with so many Israeli leaders and citizens who have condemned the hateful stabbing attacks at the Jerusalem Pride March and the murderous terrorist arson in Duma”.

Israeli Interior Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Monday “any method is kosher” to deal with far-right Jewish groups and militants, including a harsh interrogation method.

On Saturday morning, Palestinians and Jewish settlers clashed near the village of Kusra in the northern West Bank, trading volleys of stones until the Israeli army declared the area a closed military zone.

Emerging from discussions with Israeli military commanders Friday, Netanyahu announced that Israeli security forces would intensify operations in the West Bank, using “all means at their disposal” to find the killers and prevent further terrorism.

Residents of this Palestinian hamlet still awake on a hot summer night heard the screams and rushed to the Dawabsheh home.

Israeli police on Friday closed the gates of occupied East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following the brutal killing of a Palestinian baby in a village near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, a Palestinian official said.

The world woke on Friday, July 31, to the news of a bad crime in which an 18-month-old Palestinian was burnt to death and members of his family severely injured after masked Jewish settlers set fire to two Palestinian houses in Duma village.