Sheikh Jarrah

The elite prison unite will be temporarily granted the power to detain, search, and arrest civilians until the violence across Israel is under control.

The strife in Sheikh Jarrah has nothing to do with the ongoing war with Hamas, and is just a convenient excuse. But the world would have us believe it was all over the evictions in east Jerusalem.

The violence in east Jerusalem and the Old City has been a disaster. And before that, another disaster occurred on Mount Meron. Police knew the dangers but were unable to do anything.

PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS: The street itself has become a known protest site, with police barricades at both ends and almost nightly clashes with police and at times between them and their Jewish neighbors

There won’t Israeli-Palestinian peace unless east Jerusalem becomes the capital of a Palestinian state while the city remains

Implementing justice feels so right when a wrong is being corrected and or is being punished.

The current dispute surrounding the Sheikh Jarrah area has deep roots, stretching back to the first years of Arab and Jewish settlement outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, in the 19th century.

As Gaza fires rocket after rocket into Israeli territory, Israelis along the border and in Jerusalem run for cover amid escalations in the Temple Mount and Sheikh Jarrah.

“With blood and spirit we will free Palestine,” the Arab residents and activists chanted as they attempted to block Religious Zionist Party leader MK Bezalel Smotrich.

The neighborhood, where more than 70 Palestinian residents face threats of eviction from their homes, has been the site of protests and clashes with Israeli police in recent days.