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Shrapnel is seen falling over East Jerusalem on June 16, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 19, 2025, 4:24 pm
With few shelters but plenty of roadblocks, East Jerusalem Arabs squeezed by war
As heavy police deployments and concrete barriers raise tensions, residents with nowhere to go during missile attacks worry what will happen if disaster strikes their underserved neighborhoods
By Nurit Yohanan and Charlie Summers
Police officers detain an Israeli youth after his group was chanting slogans at the entrance to the Al Aqsa Mosque compound during the annual Flag March in Jerusalem's Old City, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
May 19, 2023, 2:44 pm
Jewish, Palestinian worshipers clash in Jerusalem a day after city’s Flag March
Rioters throw stones, injuring two 20-year-olds and a policeman, as law enforcers try to disperse crowd; 8 arrested in overnight disturbances across the capital
By Michael Horovitz
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (Flash90/composite image)
February 26, 2023, 2:41 pm
Shin Bet endorses unsealing terrorist’s family’s home; Ben Gvir orders police not to
Security agency: Hussein Qaraqa’s relatives were unaware he planned to carry out deadly Jerusalem ramming; far-right minister: Shin Bet can unseal home itself if it wants to
By Emanuel Fabian
An IDF soldier welds a door shut, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur, February 12, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 12, 2023, 8:19 am
Police seal family home of terrorist who rammed Ramot bus stop, killing three
Authorities unable to seal rented apartment of attacker Hussein Qaraqa, instead weld shut parents’ East Jerusalem property
By Ash Obel
Illustrative: Police clash with Palestinians outside Jerusalem's Old City on Jerusalem Day, May 10, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 31, 2021, 6:25 pm
2 Palestinians charged with terrorism for rock attack that injured baby
Indictment accuses East Jerusalem suspects of assailing a car carrying a Jewish family due to ‘nationalistic-ideological and racist motive’
By ToI Staff
Israel Police close down an International Women's Day event at the A-Tur Women's Center in East Jerusalem, March 8, 2021 (Courtesy)
March 8, 2021, 2:41 pm
Police break up ‘illegal’ East Jerusalem International Women’s Day event
Cops say exhibition of traditional clothing and objects made by women at the A-Tur Women’s Center was a Palestinian Authority event and therefore against the law
By ToI Staff
Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)
March 8, 2021, 2:09 pm
IAEA claims Iran enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges in further breach
Nuclear watchdog tells member states that Islamic Republic has started using third cluster of advanced IR-2m centrifuges at underground Natanz plant
By ToI Staff
Relatives of the Shalalda family watch as an excavator hired by them demolishes their family home in Al-Tur in east Jerusalem on July 2, 2020 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
August 30, 2020, 10:28 am
Denied legal building permits, some East Jerusalem families raze their own homes
Owners opt to demolish buildings instead of paying city crews; UN study says construction permits are ‘virtually impossible’ to obtain
By Agencies
Security forces clash with Palestinian protesters during a protest at Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, December 8, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 14, 2017, 12:02 pm
37 Palestinian rioters arrested in East Jerusalem police raids
Cops say 67 detained overall for participation in violent demonstrations against Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
By Stuart Winer
Rescue personnel attend the scene of a stabbing attack in the A-Tur neighborhood of East Jerusalem on August 11, 2016 (photo credit: United Hatzalah)
December 13, 2017, 1:29 pm
Jerusalem court convicts Palestinian for stabbing yeshiva student
Ahmad ‘Ashaier also convicted of taking part in riots, throwing Molotov cocktails, fireworks and rocks at police
By ToI Staff
Workshop for manufacturing illegal weapons in Hebron which was sealed by IDF on November 2, 2017. (IDF)
November 2, 2017, 8:40 am
IDF raids two Palestinian gun workshops, confiscates lathes
17 arrested in overnight operations throughout West Bank; two Jerusalem teens held for firebombing parked car
By ToI Staff
Israeli police near the Arab neighborhood of A-Tur in East Jerusalem, on May 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
October 15, 2017, 8:44 pm
East Jerusalem Arab burns hand hurling petrol bomb; arresting officers treat him
Suspect targets security forces in A-Tur neighborhood, is detained for questioning
By ToI Staff
Police detain a man, suspected of instigating riots in East Jerusalem, during arrests carried out overnight August 2, 2017. (Israel Police)
August 3, 2017, 9:22 am
15 more arrested on suspicion of instigating Temple Mount riots
Overnight raids in East Jerusalem neighborhoods round up alleged key figures who police say fueled violent protests
By Raoul Wootliff
Israeli police near the Arab neighborhood of A-Tur in East Jerusalem, on May 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
July 2, 2017, 11:30 pm
Cop, protesters wounded in East Jerusalem funeral violence
Procession participants raise Palestinian flags and block road to Old City, are dispersed by security forces
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image of damage to a car pelted with stones outside Jerusalem on September 20, 2015. (Courtesy)
April 2, 2017, 2:59 pm
Woman lightly hurt in East Jerusalem rock-throwing
Driver sustains mild injuries after stones thrown by Palestinians smash through her car’s rear window
By Jacob Magid
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