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East Jerusalem includes the Old City, which is home to many sites of seminal religious importance for the three major Abrahamic religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, including the Temple Mount / Al-Aqsa, the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem, known to Israelis as the reunification of Jerusalem, [1] [2] [3] refers to the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War, and its annexation.
May 4, 2012 · In 1948, when the first war between Jews and Arabs erupted, Jerusalem was one of the main battlefields. The city had the largest amount of Jews in the country, 100,000 out of 600,000 in the whole...
Oct 10, 2023 · Israel has occupied the West Bank, Arab East Jerusalem, which it captured from Jordan, and Syria's Golan Heights ever since.
Nov 18, 2022 · Another complication arises as a result of the diverse sociocultural makeup of Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem, implying different sorts of land use, whether urban, rural, agricultural, or cultivable. Three communities exist in East Jerusalem: urban, rural, and Bedouin.
Oct 11, 2023 · Israel effectively annexed East Jerusalem - claiming the whole of the city as its capital - and the Golan Heights.
May 12, 2021 · Weeks of tensions between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem have boiled over in recent days, unleashing some of the worst violence between Israel and the ...
Jul 19, 2024 · The United Nations’ top court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal, in an unprecedented opinion that called on Israel to end its decades-long ...
4 days ago · There’s been frenetic construction, too, in some areas of East Jerusalem where land has been claimed by Israel to make way for Jewish settlements. In Har Homa, an estimated 25,000 people now ...
May 10, 2021 · JERUSALEM (AP) — For weeks now, Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have clashed on a daily basis in and around Jerusalem’s Old City, home to major religious sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims and the emotional epicenter of the Middle East conflict.
