The arrests of siblings Muna and Muhammad el Kurd came a day after police detained a well-known Al Jazeera reporter who was covering a demonstration in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.
What is happening in Sheikh Jarrah is the micro-management of Israel’s macro discriminatory policies across Palestine, says Human Rights Watch’s Yasmine Ahmed.
Fresh tensions at occupied Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque compound as Israeli forces fire stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinians celebrating Gaza ceasefire.
The heavy handed response to protests by Israeli forces has given a boost to Palestinian resistance, which has been marred by divisions for years.
The violence was the latest in days of the worst such disturbances in Jerusalem since 2017, fuelled by a long-running bid by Jewish settlers to take over nearby Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah.
Clashes at Islam's third holiest site and around occupied East Jerusalem, which wounded 205 Palestinians, came amid mounting anger over potential eviction of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.
The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said 88 people were hospitalised while most of the wounded suffered injuries to the face and eyes caused by rubber bullets and shrapnel from stun grenades.
Thousands have filled the occupied East Jerusalem plaza, some waving Palestinian flags, after police permitted them access to the tiered entrance to Jerusalem's Old City.
Israeli forces hit Hamas positions early Saturday after it said three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip.
Munir Anabtawi’s mother called the Israeli police asking them if they could help take her son to the hospital, but instead, they shot him multiple times.
A car carrying Anadolu Agency crew came under attack by ultra-Orthodox Jews in Mea Shearim neighbourhood in Jerusalem.
Using 3D modelling and open-source analysis, an investigation by research agency Forensic Architecture refutes the Israeli army’s claims that the 26-year-old Palestinian was justifiably killed.
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