Haram al Sharif

Palestinian youth hold a Palestinian flag outside the Aqsa Mosque in the Haram al-Sharif. (Photo: ActiveStill.org). By Rima Najjar. Palestinians are in a constant state of rage. And the question that presents itself daily is: Against whom to focus this rage? Today, March 19 2018, our rage is split, as summed up by Kamel ...

An Israeli man has been stabbed to death by a Palestinian in the Old City of Jerusalem in the second fatal attack on Israelis in three days. Adiel Colman, a father of four, was killed close to the Lions Gate entrance to one of the city's holiest sites. Police shot dead the attacker, named by security officials as ...

The shooting occurred amid already heightened tensions surrounding the Temple Mount—known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif, atop which sits the Al-Aqsa mosque—caused by Israel's introduction at the holy site of additional security measures, including the installation of metal detectors, in the wake ...

Muslims call it Haram Al-Sharif. In Islamic mythology, the Foundation Stone (in the floor of the Dome of the Rock on Haram Al-Sharif) was the place from where the Prophet Mohammad ascended to the heavens on the back of a winged horse. Jews believe the Foundation Stone to be the hiding place of the ...

And he should demand that Israel halt incendiary measures toward Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem, including Israel's altering the status quo on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif and proposing new taxes on church-owned properties. Trump must also, at long last, commit to the two-state solution.

More recently, Israel has been conducting excavations in the area under and around the Haram Al-Sharif - the compound that houses the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa Mosque. These excavations were heavily condemned by UNESCO which issued a resolution in 2016 criticising Israel for its overall ...

“On Fridays [the Muslim day of rest, when big prayer services are typically held on Haram al-Sharif, known to Jews as the Temple Mount], you can't even approach the Old City,” says Adrian Weisberg, a tour guide who specializes in English-speaking groups. “Instead of trying to direct traffic, you have city ...

Ramallah, March 4(Petra) -- More than 50 Israeli extremist settlers early Sunday stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque/ Haram Al Sharif in the occupied holy city of Jerusalem, a Palestinian source confirmed. The General Director of the Islamic Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Affairs, Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, told Petra's reporter in Ramallah that ...

... trip was in 1862 when Palestine was undivided and part of the Ottoman empire. Prince Edward, later Edward VII, visited Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nablus and the Galilee. Gaining special permission the prince entered the holy sites of Islam, including Haram Al Sharif and the Hebron mosque.

Ramallah, Feb. 28 (Petra) --Dozens of Jewish extremists Wednesday stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque-Haram Al Sharif compound in occupied Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian source. General Director of the Islamic Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Affairs, Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, told Petra's reporter in Ramallah that extremists stormed ...

Ramallah, Feb. 28 (Petra) --Dozens of Jewish extremists Wednesday stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque-Haram Al Sharif compound in occupied Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian source. General Director of the Islamic Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Affairs, Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, told Petra's reporter in Ramallah that extremists stormed ...

Already, Palestinian and other Muslim worshippers often face all kinds of restrictions when it comes to their right to pray in Islam's third holiest site, Al Haram Al Sharif. For nearly five decades — since capturing the holy city, following the 1967 Arab-Israeli war — successive regimes in Tel Aviv have taken a ...

Three young Arab-Israeli citizens inspired by the Islamic State (IS) faced charges Monday after they were arrested in January and February for planning a shooting attack at the Temple Mount complex in Jerusalem, the site holy to all three monotheistic religions. Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) revealed ...

The clay seal, or bulla, was one of 34 found during Mazar's 2009 Ophel excavations at the base of the southern wall of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif. The seals, or bullae, were recovered from small Iron Age (1200-586 B.C.) garbage pits, outside the wall of what Mazar describes as a royal ...

Access of Arab dignitaries to the mosques, which which are part of a complex which Israel calls "Temple Mount" and the Palestinians call "Haram al-Sharif", is restricted because of Israeli sovereignty there. Countries which have no official diplomatic relations with Israel normally need to coordinate such ...

It is located in a spacious compound widely known as Al-Haram Al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary, inside the Old City of Jerusalem. Al-Haram Al-Sharif has been administered by Jordanian Islamic Waqf Ministry since 1948, but after Israel took over, it was obliged to respect the status quo and not make any ...

Ramallah, Feb. 25 (Petra) -- More than 70 Israeli extremist settlers early Sunday stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque/ Haram Al Sharif in the occupied holy city of Jerusalem, a Palestinian source confirmed. The General Director of the Islamic Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Affairs, Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, told Petra's reporter in Ramallah that ...

At the heart of Jerusalem's Old City is the hill known to Jews across the world as Har ha-Bayit, or Temple Mount, and to Muslims internationally as al-Haram al-Sharif, or The Noble Sanctuary. It was home to the Jewish temples of antiquity but all that remains of them above ground is a restraining wall for the ...

On a tour of the Muslim holy site, the Haram-al-Sharif, in the Old City of Jerusalem yesterday, a Colorado congressman's wife advised messianic Jews that “seizure” of the site might be the best option. “Why not tomorrow– say it's ours!” she said to zealots on the site. Jean Tipton was touring the site along ...