Jerusalem
ME anger at Israeli ‘escalations’
Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters over the issue of holy sites have provoked a wave of condemnation in the Arab press for Israel’s behavior. (more…)
Israeli police raid Palestinian refugee camp
A Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Jerusalem erupted in violence on Monday after Israeli police carried out a raid to arrest tax evaders and Palestinians responded by throwing stones. Reuters
Israel to build 700 homes in occupied East Jerusalem
Israel plans to build nearly 700 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem, defying demands by the United States and the Palestinian Authority for a freeze on settlement construction. While Israel has imposed a partial freeze on construction in the West Bank, government spokesman Mark Regev says that does not apply to Jerusalem, which Israel says is the eternal capital of the Jewish people.
“I want to be very clear. In the Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, there is not going to be a freeze, there cannot be a freeze. We never promised to freeze construction in those areas,” he said.
The United States, which is a sponsor of the Middle East peace talks, says Israeli settlements are an obstacle to peace, and the issue has strained relations with Israel’s right-wing government. VOA
Settlers protest in Jerusalem against freeze
Jewish settlers planned a mass protest in downtown Jerusalem on Wednesday night in what they said would be the largest show of resistance to the government’s new slowdown on new housing construction in the West Bank. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced the 10-month halt in most West Bank construction late last month in an attempt to restart peace talks, which broke down a year ago.
EU urges Israel,Palestinians to make Jerusalem their shared capital
European Union foreign ministers urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to make Jerusalem their shared capital, prompting a swift, angry reaction from Israel.
In Brussels, EU foreign ministers reiterated that the 27-member bloc would not recognize Israel’s annexation of the eastern part of Jerusalem after it occupied it in the 1967 war. The ministers called for Israel to share Jerusalem as a capital with a future Palestinian state. Source: AP
Luxembourg FM: East Jerusalem does not belong to Israel
Foreign Minister of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, said that east Jerusalem does not belong to Israel. “If it is occupied, it does not belong to Israel,” he said at the opening of a convention for EU foreign ministers in Brussels. Source: ynetnews.com
Israel stripped a record number of Palestinians of their right to live in East Jerusalem
Israel stripped a record number of Palestinians of their right to live in East Jerusalem last year, an Israeli rights group has said. Some 4,570 people had their residency rights removed, more than a third of the total number since Israel took control of East Jerusalem in 1967. Palestinians fear an attempt to reduce their presence in Jerusalem, which both they and Israel claim as their capital. The impact of the revocations is not clear. There are about 260,000 Arabs in Jerusalem — approximately 35 percent of the city’s population. An official for the local human rights group on Wednesday called the the escalation of revocations of residency for Palestinians “frightening”
Source: BBC
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