Old City Of Israeli

An eight-year-old boy and a teenager were killed by the Israeli army on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Seven people were wounded, two of them critically, after a shooter opened fire on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday, Israeli police and medics said.

Israeli police on Wednesday blocked crowds of Jewish ultra-nationalist protesters from approaching the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, to prevent more violence after weeks of bloodshed.

Moshe Holtzberg, the Israeli child who lost his parents in the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai and was known to millons of Indians as "Baby Moshe" , is back in the city again. The boy -- who was just two years old when his nanny snatched him away to safety from the side of his dead parents at Chabad House -- is now 11.

Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled a 1,500-year-old portion of mosaic floor bearing the names of Byzantine Emperor Justinian and a senior Orthodox priest.

A truck rammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem on a popular promenade overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, injuring at least 15 people, police and the ambulance service said, calling it a deliberate attack.

After the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence last fall, Lina's diner saw business drop to about three or four Israeli diners a day, and even many Palestinians abandoned the landmark Old City establishment.

A knife attack seriously wounded an Israeli border policeman today before fellow officers killed the assailant, police said.

Alleged Palestinian assailants carried out two knife attacks in Jerusalem today, police said, as a wave of unrest in Israel and the Palestinian territories returned to the city after a lull.

A group of Arab states has angered Israel by submitting a draft resolution to the UN cultural body stating that Jerusalem's Western Wall -- the holiest site at which Jews can pray -- is an "integral part" of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Israeli paramilitary police shot dead a Palestinian at an entrance to Jerusalem's walled Old City on Monday, saying he had tried to stab an officer on patrol during the worst spell of street violence for several years.

An Arab stabbed an Israeli policeman at an entrance to Jerusalem's Old City on Monday and was shot dead by security forces, police said, the latest in a wave of knife attacks.

Israel barred Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City Sunday amid fears of further violence after attacks killed two Israelis and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of "a fight to the death against Palestinian terror".

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday warned of a dangerous escalation in Jerusalem and the West Bank following attacks and appealed for calm.

Israel took the rare and drastic step of barring Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday as tensions mounted following attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded a child.

An eight-year-old boy and a teenager were killed by the Israeli army on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Seven people were wounded, two of them critically, after a shooter opened fire on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday, Israeli police and medics said.

Israeli police on Wednesday blocked crowds of Jewish ultra-nationalist protesters from approaching the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, to prevent more violence after weeks of bloodshed.

Moshe Holtzberg, the Israeli child who lost his parents in the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai and was known to millons of Indians as "Baby Moshe" , is back in the city again. The boy -- who was just two years old when his nanny snatched him away to safety from the side of his dead parents at Chabad House -- is now 11.

Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled a 1,500-year-old portion of mosaic floor bearing the names of Byzantine Emperor Justinian and a senior Orthodox priest.

A truck rammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem on a popular promenade overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem on Sunday, injuring at least 15 people, police and the ambulance service said, calling it a deliberate attack.

After the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence last fall, Lina's diner saw business drop to about three or four Israeli diners a day, and even many Palestinians abandoned the landmark Old City establishment.

A knife attack seriously wounded an Israeli border policeman today before fellow officers killed the assailant, police said.

Alleged Palestinian assailants carried out two knife attacks in Jerusalem today, police said, as a wave of unrest in Israel and the Palestinian territories returned to the city after a lull.

A group of Arab states has angered Israel by submitting a draft resolution to the UN cultural body stating that Jerusalem's Western Wall -- the holiest site at which Jews can pray -- is an "integral part" of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Israeli paramilitary police shot dead a Palestinian at an entrance to Jerusalem's walled Old City on Monday, saying he had tried to stab an officer on patrol during the worst spell of street violence for several years.

An Arab stabbed an Israeli policeman at an entrance to Jerusalem's Old City on Monday and was shot dead by security forces, police said, the latest in a wave of knife attacks.

Israel barred Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City Sunday amid fears of further violence after attacks killed two Israelis and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of "a fight to the death against Palestinian terror".

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday warned of a dangerous escalation in Jerusalem and the West Bank following attacks and appealed for calm.

Israel took the rare and drastic step of barring Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday as tensions mounted following attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded a child.