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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 432

Jabel Mukaber

Visitors flock to see the flowering of blue lupines on Mitzpe-Tel, a hilltop in Jerusalem where the Israel Police plans to build a large compound. (Naomi Kimchin, February 27, 2024)
April 9, 2024, 9:59 am
Police revive plan to build complex on beloved Jerusalem hill, angering residents
Activists ask why law enforcement waited until day after municipal elections to inform court that examination of alternative sites had come up with nothing
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Israel Police and Border Police operating in East Jerusalem. (Israel Police)
January 11, 2024, 10:51 am
Two East Jerusalem followers of Islamic State arrested for planning terror attacks
Police say pair viewed ISIS content online, including terror group’s slayings, plotted bomb attacks on security forces; one also being probed over pedophilic material on phone
By ToI Staff
People visit blooming lupine flowers on Mitzpetel, in Jerusalem, March 1, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)
August 9, 2023, 1:24 am
State freezes plan to build police station on beloved Jerusalem hill
Responding to petition by locals opposed to building station on site known for springtime carpets of blue lupines, authorities tell court they’re reviewing alternative locations
By Sue Surkes
An Israeli police officer fires his gun into the air during clashes with Palestinians in East Jerusalem's Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, March 18, 2023. (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 18, 2023, 11:19 pm
Police clash with East Jerusalem residents while responding to crash
Force says officers were attacked by Palestinians in Jabel Mukaber with rocks, other objects; three suspects arrested
By ToI Staff
Mitzpe-Tel in southeast Jerusalem. (Pnina Shir)
March 7, 2023, 12:55 pm
Plan okayed for big police complex on scenic Jerusalem hill known for spring lupines
With blue flowers carpeting Mitzpe-Tel in the East Talpiot neighborhood of the capital, residents plead for their small patch of nature to be left alone
By Sue Surkes
Israeli security forces at the scene of a terror attack where an Israeli Border Police officer was critically hurt after being stabbed at a checkpoint in Shuafat, East Jerusalem, February 13, 2023. The officer later died. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 19, 2023, 3:50 am
Palestinian activists in East Jerusalem call for general strike, civil disobedience
Organizers in Shuafat refugee camp say increased police activity part of ‘policy of harassment’ following spate of terror attacks; Issawiya, Jabel Mukaber, Anata residents to join
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Police officers near Jerusalem's Old City, on December 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 30, 2022, 2:13 am
Man shot dead in East Jerusalem, as crime wave continues to claim lives
Victim in his 40s reportedly killed in dispute between families; over 60 people have died violently in Arab communities this year
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
The scene of a suspected stabbing attempt in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber on May 25, 2020. (Noemi Kamhine)
May 25, 2020, 5:35 pm
Police: East Jerusalem man tries to stab officer, is shot
No police officers injured in alleged attempted attack in Jabel Mukaber neighborhood of the capital; earlier, 2 shot in West Bank after alleged attempt to stab soldiers
By Judah Ari Gross
People watch fireworks during a show to mark Israel's 71st Independence Day in Jerusalem on May 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
December 1, 2019, 5:54 pm
Two IS supporters planned Independence Day terror attacks in Jerusalem
The men, both residents of East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, attempted to join jihadist group’s Sinai branch earlier this year
By ToI Staff
Cash seized on June 27, 2018, in a raid on the home of the family of Alaa Abu Dheim, who perpetrated the 2008 terror attack on Mercaz Harav yeshiva. (Israel Police)
June 27, 2018, 5:46 pm
Police seize thousands in Hamas cash from family of dead terrorist who killed 8
Cops confiscate money from East Jerusalem home of Alaa Abu Dheim, who killed students in a terror attack at Jerusalem’s Mercaz Harav yeshiva in 2008
By ToI Staff
A newly hung sign points to the US embassy in Jerusalem, inaugurated on May 14, 2018. (Ben Sales/JTA)
May 15, 2018, 10:02 am
Neighbors of the new US embassy in Jerusalem fret over traffic, rising rent
Residents of Arnona neighborhood more concerned with practical implications of having the mission in their midst than its political significance
By Ben Sales
Members of the US honor guard carry flags onto the stage during the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, on May 14, 2018. (Menahem KAHANA/AFP)
May 14, 2018, 7:46 pm
Jewish jubilation, Arab resignation in Jerusalem as US opens embassy
Palestinians in the eastern part of the capital were pessimistic; Jewish residents in the western side were more upbeat
By Michael Blum and Clothilde Mraffko
Scene of fatal accident in Jabel Mukaber, East Jerusalem, in which 4-year-old boy was killed on March 28, 2018. (Israel police)
March 28, 2018, 5:13 pm
4-year-old dies after being hit by truck in East Jerusalem
Paramedics arrive to find boy trapped under vehicle in Jabel Mukaber with multiple injuries and no vital signs
By ToI Staff
The Nof Zion neighborhood in Jabel Mukaber, East Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
October 25, 2017, 2:55 pm
Israel approves 176 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem
Building boom will make Nof Zion the largest Israeli enclave in a Palestinian neighborhood of the capital, say opposing NGOs
By AFP and ToI Staff
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