In a tragic incident at the Holy Family Parish in Gaza City, an Israeli military sniper shot and killed Nahida and her daughter Samar, who were seeking shelter at the Catholic church with other displaced Palestinian families. The shooting occurred without warning, and the victims were unarmed civilians inside the church premises, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. As the mother tried... 

In a fervent display of discontent, throngs of Israelis converged outside Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem, voicing their grievances against the Prime Minister’s handling of the conflict with Hamas. Draped in Israeli flags and brandishing banners denouncing Netanyahu, protesters filled the streets, demanding his immediate resignation. The catalyst for the protests was the traumatic... 

An independent journalist went undercover inside a freemason lodge to expose the bizarre rituals conducted behind closed doors by one of the world’s most secretive fraternities. Arizona-based journalist Kyle Clifton said going in he wasn’t aware how much of the freemason teachings are derived from the Talmud, the central and foundational text in Rabbinic Judaism. “I went undercover with a hidden... 

Several are said to have been killed in an attack on a historic church in Gaza. A war crime by Israel, according to the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. It is a building belonging to the Church of Saint Porphyrios – where hundreds of people have taken refuge – that was bombed, the Wall Street Journal reports. Even the church building itself – one of the oldest in the world – is... 

Two influential members of Israel’s Knesset have introduced a bill to outlaw teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in Israel and sentence violators to prison. Israel already bans Christians from proselytizing minors but this new bill will go even further and “ban any and all efforts to tell people about Jesus.” Is it possible that the Israeli government this year could pass legislation making... 

Amid escalating tensions between Iran and Western powers, concerns have surged regarding Tehran’s alignment with Russia and its potential ambitions to challenge the established global order. President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration has drawn closer to Moscow, notably by providing substantial military support to aid Vladimir Putin’s campaign in Ukraine. Observers suggest that Raisi’s... 

A group of Israeli and US experts disclosed on Wednesday that the first sentence ever found in the language of the Canaanites, a people who formerly lived in the ancient Near East, was a term used to treat lice. May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard, says a 17-letter inscription on an ivory comb that dates to roughly 1,700 BC, according to a research that was published in the Jerusalem... 

Germany has agreed to extend another $720m (648 million euros) to provide home care and supportive services for frail and vulnerable Holocaust survivors, according to the organisation that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under Nazi Germany. The announcement came on Wednesday as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was in Israel for the first time since becoming the leader of his country. Scholz... 

Israel’s security service, Shin Bet, says it has busted an Iranian spy ring made up of four women and one man – all Israeli nationals of Iranian origin – who collected sensitive information in exchange for money. The suspects are accused of furnishing an Iranian intelligence operative with photos of various strategic sites in Israel, with the US Consulate in Tel Aviv among them. The ring members... 

Humanity should take “swift” action to resist Israel’s “aggression”, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said as Ankara reported that Turkish news agency journalists and UN-backed schools were hit by Israeli strikes in Gaza. “This terrorist state that tries to plunder a city like Jerusalem, which houses places that are holy for Muslims, Christians and Jews, has crossed all limits,”... 

Archaeologists have struggled in vain to find conclusive proof that King Solomon actually existed — and with no inscriptions or remnants of the magnificent palace and temple he is supposed to have built in Jerusalem 3,000 years ago, the Israelite king has sunk into the realm of myth: Now British marine archaeologist Dr Sean Kingsley has amassed evidence showing that Solomon was not only a flesh-and-blood... 

A man in Jerusalem who has worked for years as a rabbi and raised his family in an ultra-Orthodox community has been accused of faking his religion to mask his true identity as a Christian missionary from New Jersey. Beyneynu, an organisation that monitors missionary activity in Israel, said the man wore traditional ultra-Orthodox clothes and even performed marriage ceremonies for Jewish couples to... 

The most widely accepted burial site of Jesus Christ is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, but the location of the tomb has been disputed for centuries by archaeologists and theologians. There are several sites in Jerusalem that have been suggested as Jesus of Nazareth’s “final” resting place – the centuries-old question continues to puzzle archeologists, historians,... 

It was previously thought the enigmatic engravings at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre were made by pilgrims visiting the holy site, yet the manner was stunningly unified, as if belonging to one or just a few handcraft masters. Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority say they have solved a historic riddle of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which was erected on the place where Jesus... 

Addressing lawmakers in Ankara, Turkish president says the Palestinian people have lived in the capital ‘for thousands of years’. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday implied that Jerusalem belongs to Turkey, referring to the Ottoman Empire’s control over the city for much of the modern era. “In this city that we had to leave in tears during the First World War, it is still...