News Source: Contra Costa Times
| about 1 month ago
Israeli police stormed the grounds of Al- Aqsa mosque Sunday, using clubs and stun grenades to subdue hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinians in the worst clashes in a month of unrest in and around Jerusalem's Old City. The rioting, which caused no...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Police say the female journalist was hit by a rock as she tried to cover the events, but did not need hospital care. Israeli riot police used stun grenades to control the crowd of Palestinians, who have been angered by rumours that Jewish extremists...
News Source: Times Online
| about 1 month ago
From Cairo to Jakarta, Muslims will be enraged by the sight of Israeli security forces imposing authority at Islam’s third holiest site. The 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference has warned that any provocative act by Israel “would...
News Source: The Daily Star
| about 1 month ago
Cursed as they are with bad leadership, the sad saga of the Palestinian people fluctuates between tragedy and farce. As if contending with a crushing occupation, embargoes, closures and the complete physical separation of the West Bank and Gaza were...
News Source: The Independent
| about 1 month ago
Hamas, the militant Palestinian movement that rules the Gaza Strip is accusing Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate president in the West Bank, of deepening internal Palestinian divisions by unilaterally setting January elections. Hamas’s political chief...
News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 month ago
AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) Masked Palestinian youths throw stones at Israeli policemen, not seen, during clashes in the Arab neighborhood of Ras Al Amud in east Jerusalem, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009. Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday...