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In 1967, Israel occupied E Jerusalem, which we continue to consider is under illegal military occupation by Israel. Our Embassy to Israel is in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem. In E Jerusalem we have a Consulate-General, with a Consul-General who is not accredited to any state: this is an expression of our view that no state has sovereignty over ...
The Christians settle in their own fortified quarter in Jerusalem. [4] [6] 1063-1070. Merchants from Amalfi establish the Benedictine Saint Mary of the Latins Abbey in Jerusalem. [7] 1064-1065. Gunther of Bamberg leads a large pilgrimage to Jerusalem, surviving three days of attacks by the Bedouin at Ramla. [8] Before 1070
Jerusalem becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Judah and, according to the Bible, for the first few decades even of a wider united kingdom of Judah and Israel, under kings belonging to the House of David. c. 1010 BCE: biblical King David attacks and captures Jerusalem. Jerusalem becomes City of David and capital of the United Kingdom of Israel ...
From Egypt, Israel gains control of the Sinai Peninsula up to the Suez Canal, and the Gaza Strip. From Syria, Israel gains control of most of the Golan Heights, which since 1981 has been administered under the Golan Heights Law. The municipal borders of Jerusalem are extended to include all of the Old City as well as other areas. Residents ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thrown up more doubts about the future of the Gaza Strip, saying that the Palestinian Authority in its current form should not ...
The sharif's son, Abdullah I (the first King of Jordan) is said to have personally extinguished a fire which engulfed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 1949. [6] Jordan under Abdullah I had occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and annexed the territories in 1951.
But after the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, many Israelis began to see personal firearms as a necessary safeguard in a new and more dangerous reality. "As there weren’t enough medical teams on Oct ...
Israel and Hamas are reportedly engaging in negotiations on a deal through mediators. Now that the war has reached its six-month mark on April 7, here’s what world leaders are saying.