Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has sparked uproar after suggesting a Second World War-era Palestinian leader convinced the Nazis to adopt the “final solution” to exterminate European Jews.

The increasingly violent assaults by Israeli Arabs on Israeli Jews has been portrayed in the global media as a consequence of Muslim fears that Israel plans to sieze Al-Haram al-Sharif (more commonly known as Temple Mount or the Dome of the Rock) the third holiest site of Islamic pilgramidge.

Israel’s military deployed hundreds of troops in the West Bank after a drive-by shooting by suspected Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler couple in front of their children as they were driving home.

Israeli police armed with stun grenades and tear gas clashed with rock-throwing Palestinian youths who had barricaded themselves inside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque for a third day, police and witnesses said.

Israeli police briefly clashed with Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site early yesterday, raising tensions in the holy city ahead of the Jewish new year.

When Commandant (retired) Greenway criticises me for being ‘misleading and incorrect’ in my analysis of the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem (Letters, December 2), it is on the basis that Yoram Cohen, head of Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, told the Knesset these were individual acts ‘and Abbas and the PA were opposed’.

Dr. Kevin McCarthy’s letter (Irish Examiner, November 24) makes for sad reading. 

There were fierce clashes in East Jerusalem and fears of a new Palestinian uprising after Israeli police shot dead a 32-year-old Palestinian man suspected of having tried hours earlier to kill a far-right Jewish activist.

Israeli police have shot and killed a Palestinian man suspected of trying to kill a hard-line Jewish activist in Jerusalem, an incident that threatened to further inflame the city's already high tensions.

Monique Walsh’s (Oct 15) recent letter had no basis in fact.

Israeli police have entered Jerusalem’s holiest site to disperse hundreds of Palestinians who were throwing rocks.

Palestinian militants fired a rocket thought to be aimed at Jerusalem today, setting off air raid sirens throughout the city and opening a new front in three days of fierce fighting between Israel and armed groups in the Gaza Strip.

Dr Laurence Davis of the Department of Government in UCC is well known for his unquestioning anti-Israel stance and it never fails to amaze me how one person could be so totally one sided and blind in his approach to this very complex question.

CROWDS of Palestinian youths went on violent rampages in east Jerusalem yesterday, stoning buses, overturning cars and facing down Israeli riot police at the holy city’s most sensitive religious site following the shooting death of a local man.

Crowds of Palestinian youths went on the rampage in east Jerusalem today as a sudden burst of violence clouded fragile peace efforts.

ISRAEL has lifted its tight restrictions on Palestinian access to Jerusalem’s holiest shrine and called off an extended West Bank closure after days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces.

HUNDREDS of Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces across east Jerusalem yesterday in the worst rioting in years as a senior Hamas leader called for a new “intifada,” or uprising.

The rift in US-Israel relations deepened today after American envoy George Mitchell cancelled a visit and Jerusalem insisted it would not back down over building plans at the heart of the row.

Israel is coming under increasing US pressure to scrap the east Jerusalem building project which has sparked the most serious diplomatic feud in years.

Israel has sealed off the West Bank for 48 hours, preventing Palestinians from entering Israel because of fears of unrest.

The pope took his message of peace to the most disputed site in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today, urging both sides to engage in “a sincere dialogue aimed at building a world of justice and peace”.

Israel must control all of Jerusalem forever, said former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, taking a stand against a key compromise that could seal an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

Israeli archaeologists today said they’ve stumbled upon the site of one of the great dramatic scenes of the Roman sacking of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago – the subterranean drainage channel Jews used to escape from the city’s Roman conquerors.

A UNITED NATIONS anti-racism panel has questioned Israel’s policy on preserving holy sites, asking the country to explain whether it protects places considered sacred to religions other than Judaism.

The Jerusalem municipality will submit new plans for a walkway leading to a disputed holy compound, a city spokesman said today.

Hundreds of angry worshippers threw stones and bottles at police today in an eruption of outrage over contentious Israeli renovation work at a disputed holy site in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Israeli security forces tripled their usual numbers around Jerusalem’s Old City this morning as the city braced for possible riots during Muslim prayers at the Holy Land’s most contentious religious site.

An Israeli Islamic leader warned of “religious war” and Iran’s supreme leader urged retaliation against Israel today over new excavations and repairs in Jerusalem’s Old City, outside the Holy Land’s most explosive religious site.

The supreme leader of Iran has called on Islamic nations to retaliate against Israel over excavations being carried out near a hotly disputed holy site in Jerusalem.

Police today scuffled with an Israeli Islamic leader and several of his followers near a hotly disputed holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem where Muslims have been protesting excavations and repairs.

Under heavy police guard, Israeli workers began a dig today at a centuries-old walkway that leads to a holy site in Jerusalem disputed by Muslims and Jews, a spokesman said.

Police stormed a disputed Jerusalem holy site today, throwing stun grenades to disperse hundreds of Palestinian worshippers who threw stones at police and Jewish visitors.

PROTESTERS besieged Laura Bush during her visit yesterday to two of Jerusalem's holiest sites, with Israeli police locking arms to restrain the crowd and Secret Service agents packed tightly around America's first lady.

Palestinian protesters threw stones at Israeli police guarding a disputed holy site today, slightly wounding seven officers, including Jerusalem’s police chief, authorities said.

Jewish extremists plan to take over a hotly disputed holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem in an attempt to sabotage Israel’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank in the summer, it was reported tonight.

Clinging on to life in a French hospital, Yasser Arafat was unaware tonight of the growing row over where he will be buried.

Israel will permit Yasser Arafat to be buried in the Gaza Strip, but not in Jerusalem, an Israeli Cabinet minister said today, as the Palestinian leader lay gravely ill in a Paris hospital.

Having ruled out leukaemia, French doctors were trying for a third day to determine what was causing the dramatic deterioration in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s health.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said today that Yasser Arafat will not be permitted to be buried in Jerusalem if he dies.

ISRAEL yesterday threatened to limit the number of Muslims allowed to pray at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, saying a portion of the biblical-era structure was in danger of collapse.

TENS of thousands of Israelis were forming a human chain yesterday in a mass show of strength against government plans to pull all Jewish settlers and troops out of the Gaza Strip.

YOUR headline ‘Israeli police storm Temple Mount as Sharon threatens Arafat’ (Irish Examiner, April 3) was misleading and there is no connection between the two points mentioned.

HUNDREDS of Israeli police in riot gear stormed a disputed holy site yesterday, firing tear gas, stun grenades and plastic bullets to disperse Muslim worshippers throwing stones and shoes at them.