Oct 10 Watch 3:36 Israeli-Palestinian tensions soar after Gaza rocket lands in Israel By PBS News Hour Violence continued to escalate between Palestinian militants and the Israeli military after a rocket was allegedly fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel over the weekend. Josef Federman of The Associated Press joins Hari Sreenivasan via Skype from Jerusalem,… Continue watching
Aug 02 Israeli teen stabbed at Gay Pride parade dies By Daniel Costa-Roberts An Israeli teen who was stabbed by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man at this week's gay pride parade in Jerusalem died of her wounds Sunday… Continue reading
Apr 04 Pilgrims retracing Jesus' last steps may be going the wrong way By News Desk Thousands of people flocked to the walled Old City of Jerusalem on Good Friday, as part of the annual tradition to walk the Via Dolorosa, the path where it is said Jesus Christ was tried and convicted and later crucified… Continue reading
Mar 24 What a 500-year-old latrine teaches us about human migration and the spread of disease By Shehryar Nabi What was once a chute for both human and material waste in Jerusalem has now proven to be a store of new information about Christian migrants to the city, and the pathogens they brought with them. Continue reading
Nov 18 Watch Is incitement to blame for growing Middle East violence? - Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 18 U.S. official names Americans killed in Jerusalem synagogue attack By Matthew Lee, Associated Press LONDON -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry angrily condemned Tuesday's deadly attack on a Jerusalem synagogue and demanded that the Palestinian leadership take immediate steps to end incitement to violence as Israeli-Palestinian tensions soared. Continue reading
Nov 05 Watch News Wrap: Two vehicles crash into Jerusalem pedestrians By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, tensions flared in Jerusalem, where there were two different incidents of Palestinian drivers driving into crowds of pedestrians, causing injuries and one death. Also, a drone strike overnight in Yemen killed a senior al-Qaida official. Continue watching
Oct 01 Netanyahu, Obama are old allies navigating new challenges By Morgan Till President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefly met today, renewing their famously frosty, and occasionally tendentious relationship after a seven-month hiatus. The leaders spoke to reporters and listed a raft of pressing issues for discussion: Iran's nuclear… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch Israeli army enters new phase, removes bulk of troops from Gaza By PBS News Hour The majority of Israeli ground troops have left Gaza, with the army sighting major gains in destroying the border tunnel network. But the violence continues, as a UN school in Gaza was attacked by Israel, drawing condemnation from the United… Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch As temporary truce breaks down, Israeli police stop car with explosives near Jerusalem By PBS News Hour Israel resumed its attacks in Gaza on Sunday after Hamas rejected a cease-fire offer. Hamas later offered its own temporary truce. Amid the breakdown of the temporary cease-fire, Israeli police say they stopped a car filled with explosives at a… Continue watching