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US investors are funding Arab property takeovers in Jerusalem

Rights groups in Jerusalem are warning that Israel has discovered new ways to circumvent US and international pressure to hamper Jewish settlement activity in the holy city by utilizing the

IOA renews travel ban against Jerusalemite expert

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has renewed the travel ban on Khalil Al-Tafakji, the settlement affairs expert and director of the maps section at Orient House in occupied Jerusalem, for

Resheq: Hundreds of homes in J’lem to be razed because of the peace talks

Member of Hamas's political bureau Izzat Al-Resheq stated that the Israeli decision to demolish hundreds of Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem is one of the manifestations of the US-backed peace

Gaza Ministry slams Israeli plan to build massive synagogue in heart of J’lem

The Religious Affairs Ministry in Gaza reiterated its denouncement of Israel’s approval of a major Jewish synagogue to be built in the heart of the holy city.

J’lem attorney discloses Israeli plan for full destruction of city

The Israeli government is “planning to completely destroy the city of Jerusalem and a erect a new Jerusalem with a Zionist vision amid a plan it prepared which it calls

Religious affairs ministry warns of upcoming ideological war

-- Palestine’s religious affairs ministry in Gaza warned the Israeli government’s announcement to relaunch the Jerusalem 2020 project, which would reduce the city’s Palestinian population to 20 per cent, could

UK foreign minister handed letter from Jerusalemite officials facing exile

A Jerusalemite delegation handed on Wednesday visiting British foreign minister William Hague a letter from the Palestinian officials threatened with expulsion from their native city in which they warned of

Jewish edict prohibits renting houses in Safad to Palestinians

Jewish rabbis in the city of Safad, north of Palestine occupied in 1948, have issued an edict prohibiting renting houses to Arabs (non-Jews) in the city

12 Palestinians killed since the outset of direct peace talks

Israeli occupation authorities are responsible for the deaths of 12 Palestinians since direct peace talks kicked off between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah in early September, the Quds

Demonstrators mark International J’lem Day in Moscow

Dozens of residents of the Russian capital gathered Friday with representatives of Arab and Muslim communities in one of Moscow’s largest squares to mark International Jerusalem Day and show support