Israeli rights groups Ir Amim and Bimkom say the Israeli government's decision to start registering land adjacent to Al Aqsa Mosque compound could have "disastrous ramifications for hundreds of Palestinian homes".
The official Palestinian television channel said Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian during a raid on the Dheisheh refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday.
Ankara asks Tel Aviv to take measures to protect holy places and condemns a raid on Islam's third-holiest site by notorious Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir and his fanatical Jewish supporters.
Israeli Jewish settlers are set to stage a controversial flag march through occupied East Jerusalem to mark Israel’s occupation of the city in 1967.
An Israeli court has ruled that performing Jewish religious rituals at Al Aqsa complex does not violate public security, drawing condemnations from the Palestinians and Jordan.
Israel killed 50 Palestinians since the start of the year, four times more than the same period last year.
The 27-year-old man, shot dead by Israeli gunfire, is among more than 25 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since late March as tensions run high across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
A disciple of the extremist rabbi Meir Kahane, Ben Gvir was ushered into the Israeli parliament last year after a deal brokered by previous PM Netanyahu with religious nationalists.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has sent letters to several international actors warning that Israel's aggression at the holy site could stoke religious war and violence.
"The status quo of the holy sites must be fully respected," five European countries say after an emergency closed-door UNSC session to discuss tensions sparked by the storming of Al Aqsa Mosque by Israeli troops.
Over 560 settlers stormed the site after Israeli police forced Muslim worshippers to evacuate the mosque’s courtyard, witnesses say.
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