YOUTHS WAVE Israeli flags during the Jerusalem Day march around the Old City walls on Monday. (photo credit: NIR ELIAS / REUTERS) The area around the Old City’s Damascus Gate has become an ...

Damascus Gate is a focal point of Palestinian life in east Jerusalem ... what they view as their capital. In the name of defending the holy city, Hamas fired long-range rockets at Jerusalem ...

Israeli border guards patrol an entrance to the Al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem's Old City on 19 February 2019 (AFP) “Israel seeks to turn al-Rahmeh Gate into an abandoned area with a view to ...

a well-known correspondent for the Al Jazeera satellite channel. Jerusalem police were criticized internationally for beating mourners at Abu Akleh's funeral two weeks ago. Israel captured east ...

Aerial view of the ... foothills between Jerusalem and Ashkelon. The ancient city was destroyed in 830 BCE by Hazael, the king of Damascus. Professor Maeir said that the gate is among the largest ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police are watching from above in their attempts to keep control in Jerusalem in the face of the city’s worst wave of violence in nearly a decade. Police have been ...

The “doctored aerial image of Jerusalem [showed] the Third Jewish Temple where the Dome of the Rock stands today,” al Jazeera reported. The mosque is central to Palestinian identity in ...

JERUSALEM —For centuries, the Damascus Gate has stood as the portal to the Old City of Jerusalem, opening onto a packed bazaar of souvenir shops, teahouses and falafel joints — and the holiest ...