It is the third holiest site for Muslims and allowing Jews to pray there threatens to exacerbate tensions in the occupied territory.
Three Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, including a woman who allegedly tried to stab officers in Jerusalem, a man shot during occupied West Bank clashes and another man who approached the border fence.
After meetings with Egyptian and Jordanian leaders, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says that he is ready to restore calm in the Palestinian territories. Three states will work together for a vision aimed at resuming negotiations.
Palestinian groups said they resumed protests at the Israel-Gaza border, aimed at pressing Israel to ease restrictions on the enclave.
US President Joe Biden and Israeli PM Naftali Bennett are set to hold their first face-to-face meeting in Washington during which Bennett plans to persuade Biden not to return to 2015 Iran nuclear accord.
The longstanding fear of Palestinians that Israel is slowly eroding the status quo of the Al Aqsa mosque is becoming real.
The Israeli High Court pushed for a “settlement deal” instead of approving the Sheikh Jarrah evictions thanks to the campaigning efforts of Palestinians.
Police and settlers stormed the Al Alqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem during dawn prayers, a move condemned by Turkey and the EU.
Isaac Herzog, a scion of a prominent Zionist family, will succeed Reuven Rivlin as the country's 11th president – a largely ceremonial position meant to forge national unity and serve as the country’s moral compass.
Israel has serious reservations about Iran nuclear deal being put together in Vienna, new Foreign Minister Yair Lapid tells his US counterpart Antony Blinken, as he pledges to fix "mistakes made" between two allies in past.
Thousands of people accompanied Nizar Banat’s coffin through the streets of occupied West Bank, many of them chanting “the people want the fall of the regime” and “leave, leave Abbas”.
At least nine Palestinians are wounded after Israeli police fired rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse protesters in Al Aqsa Mosque.
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