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Palestinian man was reportedly seriously wounded on Saturday evening in clashes between protesters and Israeli security forces during a demonstration in East Jerusalem “Demonstrators threw rocks and [fired] fireworks at police, who used anti-disturbance measures to disperse them,” police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. “Apparently one Palestinian was wounded,” she said. However, Palestinian sources put the number of casualties at three, saying one person was taken to hospital in serious condition after being hit in the head. On Friday afternoon around 1,500 Israeli Arabs demonstrated in the town of Umm al-Fahm, east of Hadera, protesting the police’s killing of an Arab...

# An imbalanced EU position paper on Jerusalem written in December 2008, and recently leaked to the media, completely ignores Israel's historical and legal rights to its capital. The EU attack refers primarily to the City of David, located just beyond Jerusalem's Old City walls, an area identified by archaeologists and historians as the location of King David's capital some 3,000 years ago. Archaeological excavations took place there during Ottoman rule, as well as under the ensuing British Mandatory rule, and they have continued under Israeli rule as well. # About 20 years ago a wave of new, illegal construction...

Through clandestine means, the Committee for the Renewal of the Jewish Community in Jerusalem's Shiloach neighborhood (also known as the Yemenite Village) purchased a six-and-a-half floor building located among the homes of Shiloach, a predominantly Arab-populated area. In the newly completed structure, and in an adjacent building, 10 Jewish families took up residence during the night. The newcomers were greeted by their Arab neighbors with rocks and bottles; four policemen were lightly injured. Police also found firebombs ready for use on the roof of a nearby building. Police arrested six of the rock-throwers. IsraelNN's correspondent reports that during the entire...