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Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor took issue with the statement for largely ignoring the Jewish people’s connection to the Temple Mount.

In a sign of the increasingly tense situation, Israeli forces shot a Palestinian attacker on Tuesday after she tried to stab a soldier at a West Bank checkpoint.

The restrictions come amid fresh violence in the West Bank, with one Palestinian man killed and another woman injured by Israeli forces in the Hebron district. Ahlam Jbara speaking for the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine demanded that the crowd hold Israel, the USA and...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi denounced the Israeli violence towards Palestinians and called upon Israel to move swiftly to calm tensions caused by clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth this week at al-Aqsa mosque.

An overwhelming majority of Palestinians, at 88%, think the PA should bring Israel to the ICC to stand trial for building settlements on the “occupied territories”, an Israeli enterprise most Palestinians (65%) think has nullified prospects for a two-state solution....

Most Palestinians no longer support a two-state solution to its conflict with Israel, according to a survey released Monday.

Yom Kippur is set to begin at sundown Tuesday and will last until dusk on Wednesday.

Comparisons have been made with the situation faced by ace Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Sandy Koufax, who refused to pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur.

The ambassador added that he appreciates the United Nations finally recognizing the importance of Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is the most solemn of Jewish holy days: a time of profound prayer, repentance, fasting, and self-examination.

“If the Israeli violations continue against Al-Aqsa Mosque, that might lead to a 3rd Intifada in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem“, Salah said in an interview with Anadolu Agency.

“We have to remember that there are 330,000 Palestinians in east Jerusalem and 99.9 percent of them are not taking part in this violence”, Michaeli said.

Gold also cited Hamas and the Islamic movement of Northern Israel as responsible for revving up Palestinians to clash with Israeli police in the religious compound.

There has been growing tension across the West Bank and Jerusalem in recent days due to provocative raids by Jewish fanatics into al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II harshly denounced the Israeli incursions, warning that “continued Israeli provocations in Jerusalem threaten to affect Jordan-Israel relations”.

Efforts made in the nuclear negotiations were not only aimed at preserving the previous achievements, Rouhani said, addressing a gathering of managers of the Iranian knowledge-based companies in Tehran on Wednesday.