JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli archaeologists have finished work on a tunnel which starts at a site near the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound inside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, officials said on Tuesday.
The controversial 600-metre (-yard) tunnel, originally built as a drainage channel during the Second Temple period, starts at an archaeological site just south of the area known to Muslims [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The leaked documents showing Palestinian negotiators offered to cede large parts of east Jerusalem to Israel in 2008 contain no real surprises, Palestinians in the Old City told AFP on Monday.
The cache of more than 1,600 secret documents detailing peace negotiations going back to 1999 have made headlines around the world and put the Palestinian leadership on the back fo [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - Palestinian negotiators offered in 2008 to cede vast swathes of annexed east Jerusalem in peace talks with Israel, Al-Jazeera news channel reported, citing "secret documents."
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat, however, questioned on the Doha-based channel, said the Palestinian leadership had "nothing to hide" and dismissed most of the report as "a pack of lies."
Al- [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - The city council on Monday approved the building of another 122 Israeli settler homes in east Jerusalem, a councillor said, a move likely to bring fresh censure from the international community.
Elisha Peleg, head of the conservative Likud group on the city council, told AFP its planning and construction committee had given the green light for construction of 90 housing [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Jewish settlers are to expand a housing scheme being built on the site of an historic east Jerusalem hotel which was razed by Israel sparking global anger, a city official said on Thursday.
Councillor Elisha Peleg, of the right-wing Likud party, told AFP developers had filed a planning application for 50 housing units, in addition to the 20 already approved for construction on [...]
NEW YORK (AFP) - The mayor of Jerusalem, a rising star in Israeli politics, has vowed that the city would never be divided to allow the eastern side to become the capital of a future Palestinian state.
"It's not going to happen, it's not natural, it's the wrong thing to do from any perspective," mayor Nir Barkat said during a visit to New York.
Barkat also joined government rejections of inter [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli forces on Sunday began demolishing part of a hotel complex in occupied east Jerusalem to make way for 20 new homes for Jewish settlers.
Three bulldozers were seen working under police protection to demolish part of the former Hotel Shepherd, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.
"The north half of the building is being demolished and the Israeli authorities want t [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel police have arrested two Palestinian activists from a flashpoint neighbourhood in east Jerusalem in a move local officials said on Wednesday was politically motivated.
Adnan Ghaith, a political activist from Silwan in annexed east Jerusalem, was arrested by police on Wednesday on suspicion of attacking a Jewish settler, his lawyer Rami Othman told AFP.
"They clai [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Two Arabs have been arrested for a suspected plot to fire a rocket into a Jerusalem football stadium along with three other men who sold them firearms, Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service said Sunday.
Shin Bet, the Jewish state's domestic security agency, said two of the men, Mussa Hamada and Bassem Omari, had been active for several years in the Palestinian Islamist [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - More than 500 million dollars are needed to upgrade infrastructure in Arab neighbourhoods of annexed east Jerusalem, the results of an official Israeli study published on Friday showed.
Some 420 million euros (559 million dollars, two billion shekels) are needed to upgrade Arab districts if they are to be at par with Jewish neighbourhoods of the the Holy City, the report [...]
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