Archive List for Jerusalem

Israeli soldier jailed for abusing activist in Hebron

An Israeli soldier has been jailed for 10 days and suspended for taunting an Israeli activist in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Another soldier was also suspended after being filmed throwing an activist to the ground and punching him. Al Jazeera’s @Alan Fisher reports from West Jerusalem. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ @AljazeeraEnglish #Aljazeeraenglish #News #Israel #Hebron

Six Palestinians killed in Israeli raids in the Occupied West Bank

As the funeral of a 17-year-old begins in the village of Kufr Dan, in the occupied West Bank, the UN Secretary General has called for ‘maximum restraint’ and for Israeli and Palestinian authorities to work to preserve calm amid the escalating violence in the Occupied West Bank. Six Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since Wednesday. Al Jazeera’s @Nida Ibrahim reports from the Occupied West Bank. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #OccupiedWestBank #Israel

World reacts as Jerusalem tensions escalate

More than 200 people, mostly Palestinians, have been injured in clashes with Israeli police in occupied East Jerusalem. Violence broke out at the Al Aqsa Mosque and elsewhere in the city. Thousands of Muslims had packed the site for the last Friday prayers of Ramadan. Many stayed on to demonstrate in support of Palestinians facing eviction from their homes by Jewish settlers. Al Jazeera’s Victoria Gatenby reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #AlAqsa #SheikhJarrah

Clashes in Jerusalem over Ramadan gatherings

There has been a third night of violence near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli security forces fired stun grenades and water cannon at Palestinian protesters. They are angry at restrictions on gatherings during the Muslim month of Ramadan. Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett reports from West Jerusalem. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Jerusalem #Ramadan #Israel

Muslims mark first night of Ramadan with Al-Aqsa Mosque prayers

Muslims in occupied East Jerusalem have been celebrating the first night of Ramadan with prayers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It is a very different picture since last year when COVID restrictions kept the site closed to worshippers during Islam’s holy month. Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett joined the crowds nearby. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Jerusalem #Ramadan

Why are Israel and Arab states getting friendly? | Start Here

0 Arab countries were once united against Israel in their support for the Palestinians. But some relationships have been quietly thawing for years. Now they’re talking normalisation. But what does that even mean? What’s in it for the countries that sign on? And what about the Palestinians? Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ #Al_Jazeera_English #Start_Here #Al_Jazeera_Digital_Shows

Why is Trump’s Middle East plan so divisive? I Start Here

The Trump administration and Israel say their offer to the Palestinians is the best one yet. In fact they say it could be the last one they’ll ever offer Palestine. But Palestinians say it’s a non-starter. So how does US President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan stack up against the ones that have failed before? Will Palestine reconsider? And why now? Start Here explains. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #StartHere #TrumpMiddleEastPlan

Time to boycott Israel? | Head to Head

“Prospects have never been better for settling the Israel-Palestine conflict,” argues Norman Finkelstein, the controversial scholar and author of The Holocaust Industry and Method and Madness. But after more violence, yet another round of failed talks and 20 years of Israeli land annexation, is the two-state solution really still an option? In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges Norman Finkelstein on his proposal for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict, and explores whether he has changed his tone on some of his more incendiary criticism of Israel. Once described as an ‘American Radical’, Finkelstein has also been branded by some a liberal Zionist, for his opposition to the one-state […]