The demonstrators danced and waved Israeli flags throughout the city. The Jerusalem Waqf, the Islamic authority that oversees the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, said more than 1,100 Israelis encroached ...

Some demonstrators chanted “Eject the Waqf,” in reference to the role ... for its potential to ignite civil unrest and riots in Jerusalem and beyond. Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said the ...

The recent Israeli moves to seize land from UNRWA in Sheikh Jarrah, the planned eviction of the Qalandiya Training College, ...

and to Jews as the Temple Mount - via an Islamic trust called the Waqf. The status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel regards Jerusalem as its "eternal and ...

The Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department in Jerusalem said that 1,780 Israeli settlers stormed the site on Sunday. Since 2003, Israel has allowed illegal settlers into the flashpoint compound almost ...

"We are always concerned about the attempts of Jewish extremists to upset the status quo," Dr Mustafa Abu Sway, an Islamic scholar and member of the Islamic Waqf Council in Jerusalem, told me ...

Since Israel captured East Jerusalem, including this part of the ... a member of the Islamic Waqf council, which administers al-Aqsa Mosque or Haram al-Sharif, which the compound is also known ...

Six months ago, Jerusalem's Islamic Waqf, the trust that controls the city's Islamic holy sites, erected two signs on top of the Golgotha rock, part of its expansion of a two century-old Islamic ...

The Waqf administration, under the rubric of Jordan’s Ministry of Endowments, provided a stabilizing component to the overall political “powder keg” that Jerusalem represented. The extension ...

Azzam al-Khatib, head of the Jordanian Waqf Islamic affairs council which ... eased restrictions on West Bank Palestinians visiting Jerusalem for prayer. Worshipper Ebtissam Barrak, 26, said ...