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CNN  —  Two men have been wounded in what Israeli police say was a suspected “terror attack” that took place near the Shimon Hatzadik tomb in East Jerusalem early Tuesday local time. A police statement said the force received a report of a shooting at a vehicle in the area …

London CNN  —  The sacred oil that will be used to anoint King Charles III at his coronation May 6, has been consecrated at a Christian holy site in Jerusalem, Buckingham Palace has announced. The “chrism oil” was created using olives harvested from two groves on the Mount of Olives, …

A man drove a car into a group of people at a bus stop outside an Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem in what the police described as a terrorist attack.

Israel has announced plans to make it easier for Israelis to get firearms amid escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territory. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the measure late on Saturday after convening a meeting of his security cabinet — filled with hardline politicians — over a pair of shootings …

A 13-year-old Palestinian boy and 41 others have been arrested by Israeli authorities for allegedly being behind a shooting in East Jerusalem Saturday, January 28, that injured two people, a day after an attack that killed seven. A father and son were seriously wounded in the attack, while the teenage …

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. Sign up here. Jerusalem CNN  —  On September 19, some 150 schools in East Jerusalem went on strike, keeping tens of thousands of students out …

Another foreign nation has signed a lobbying deal with Dotmount Communications. The company leader Adedotun is a member of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) The international media was agog yesterday as news filtered in that a foremost Nigerian media guru and founder of Dotmount Communications Group Adedotun Olaoluwa has closed …

Crowds waving Israeli flags set off from Damascus Gate — the main entry to the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City — dancing and chanting “the nation of Israel lives” and “death to Arabs.” Israeli police in riot gear blocked surrounding streets, forcibly removing Palestinian protesters from the route. Seventy-nine …

Thousands of far-right Israelis gather at Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem to mark the so-called flag march in the Old City. The march is held to mark what Israelis call the day of unifying Jerusalem, in reference to Israel’s occupation of the city in 1967 and subsequent annexation which …

Thousands of Christians have celebrated the traditional “Holy Fire” ceremony of blazing candles at the Holy Sepulchre church, Christianity’s holiest site in Jerusalem, to mark the eve of Orthodox Easter. Saturday’s ceremony comes against a backdrop of rising tensions with Israel, which imposed new restrictions on attendance this year that …