Sheikh Abdul Azim Salhab was subjected to pressure and detention by Israeli authorities over his role at Al-Aqsa.

Sheikh Abdel Azim Salhab (1946-), the head of the Islamic Waqf Council in Jerusalem, a Palestinian judge born in Hebron, was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces ...

Sheikh Abdel Azim Salhab, chairman of the Wakf Council, died on Thursday night, according to Palestinian media reports and ...

According to local media reports, more than 2,000 Israelis stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on May 26, 2025 [Ammar Awad/Reuters] Right-wing Israelis in Jerusalem have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque ...

Mickey Levy, a former Jerusalem police commander, said Israeli security was always in charge of the gates to the compound, denying that the Waqf had final control before 2000 on who entered. “This is ...

Israeli border police officers stand guard as Muslim men pray outside the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 16, 2017. Adnan Husseini, the Palestinian Minister of Jerusalem, said ...

JERUSALEM — The grand mufti of Jerusalem has condemned the agreement approved by Israel’s Cabinet to establish an egalitarian prayer area at the Western Wall. The area next to the Western Wall is “the ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — As police protected them, three Jewish men stepped forward, placed their hands out at chest level and began reciting prayers in low tones in the shadow of Jerusalem’s golden Dome of ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police escorted more than 250 Jewish visitors Sunday to a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem where clashes between police and Palestinian protesters helped trigger a war in ...