Palestinians continue to protest as mosque official says move does not fulfill Muslims’ demands to remove CCTV cameras.

Religious leaders at Al-Aqsa mosque on Tuesday rejected an Israeli decision to remove some security measures controlling access to Islam’s third holiest site, telling worshippers to boycott the site until the return of the status quo.

US President Donald Trump’s administration was instrumental in resolving Israel’s crisis with Jordan, American ambassador to Israel David Friedman said in his first official meeting with Knesset members Tuesday.

The harsh measures instituted by the authorities led to harsh consequences: four Palestinians were killed and over one hundred demonstrators were injured by police.

Jordan did not consult with the Palestinian Authority about talks with Israel that led to the removal of metal detectors and cameras from the entrances to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Tuesday.

Three Israeli Jews were detained on Temple Mount in Jerusalem Tuesday after they recited the Kaddish (the Jewish prayer for the dead) in honor of the Salomon family who were brutally murdered by a Palestinian assailant on Friday.

Last week, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reversed a decision – made less than 24 hours earlier – that wines made in two West Bank settlements and sold in Canada could no longer be labeled “Product of Israel” because the grapes were grown, fermented and processed outside of the country’s internationally recognised borders.

Five members of an interfaith delegation to Israel were prevented from boarding their flight from Washington, D.C., reportedly due to their activism on behalf of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

“I am concerned that Prime Minister Netanyahu does not have a plan for peace, and doesn’t have a vision for peace,” Gillibrand said Saturday at a town hall meeting in the Bronx in New York City.

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday accused Arab lawmakers of incitement, after two deadly attacks in the space of a week left five Israelis dead.

Dahlan, a former Gaza security chief, said in a phone interview with the AP news agency published on Sunday that he expected the quietly negotiated agreement to lead to opening the blockaded Palestinian territory’s border with Egypt in late August and an easing of crippling power outages.

Amid growing tension in the occupied Palestinian territory surrounding the events at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, with ten Palestinians and five Israelis killed in the past 11 days, Israeli forces have continued massive detention campaigns across the West Bank between Monday night and early Tuesday morning.

“Believing that all human beings – even those with controversial ideologies – deserve equal protection doesn’t mean one subscribes to ultra-nationalist politics,” writes Sarah Hirschhorn.