East Jerusalem

We hope Israel is being pressed to at least temporarily halt building in East Jerusalem as a sign of good faith.

The United States backs the Palestinian demand that East Jerusalem should be the capital of a future Palestinian state.

Obama also rejected a push by the Palestinians for U. N. recognition of a state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem late this year.

However, the restrictions would not apply in East Jerusalem and the Palestinians have already made clear that limitation is not acceptable.

Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, Israel has declared Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel.

Severed from its West Bank feeder towns, Ramallah and Bethlehem, Arab East Jerusalem at night feels like a ghost-town sunk in neglect.

Netanyahu was offering a partial freeze, not including new settlements in East Jerusalem, the desired capital of a future Palestinian state.

Israeli bulldozers have flattened part of a building in occupied East Jerusalem to make way for new homes for Jewish settlers.

"One day, we will have our own independent state with east Jerusalem as its capital, " he said.

The Palestinian leader is conscious of his own weakness. His first demand is that Israel stop Jewish settlement-building in East Jerusalem.

Mr. Netanyahu has accepted the idea of a Palestinian state, but with significant conditions and without East Jerusalem.

East Jerusalem, the supposed future Palestinian capital, is now ringed with Jewish settlements.

The U. S. is pressuring Israel to abandon a controversial plan to expand settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.

One of the Palestinian strikers, East Jerusalem shopkeeper Mounzar Karadi, said Israel is not interested in peace.

The armed wing of Fatah has claimed responsibility on Saturday night for the early attack on Israeli troops in east Jerusalem.

The United States has voiced its dismay over Israel's approval of 900 additional housing units at a Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem.

"I don't think that the Palestinians will see a full freeze of building in East Jerusalem, " he said.

Israeli bulldozers have demolished part of a hotel in East Jerusalem to make way for 20 homes for Jewish settlers.

Smoke billows around a masked Palestinian youth during clashes with Israeli troops at the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.

But his offer excluded East Jerusalem, "natural growth" in existing settlements and buildings already under construction.

Nor did she specifically exempt East Jerusalem, which Palestinians view as their future capital but which many Israelis see as theirs alone.

Israel captured areas including the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

to negotiate towards the establishment of the state in the occupied west bank , east Jerusalem and Gaza .

N. recognition of an independent "Palestine" in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war.

The Palestinians also want an end to Israeli construction in East Jerusalem, which they claim as the capital of their future state.

Besides, a recent poll suggests that many Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem would like to become Israeli citizens.

The Palestinians want a state in areas Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Police have identified the gunman as a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem.

In their latest proposal, the Americans said East Jerusalem should be included in the freeze.

A: China expresses profound regret at and opposes Israel's approval of expanding Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem.

The Palestinians say they will not return to peace talks until Israel halts all settlement construction in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Giraud settlements in East Jerusalem, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

And Israel's interior ministry is stripping ever more East Jerusalem Palestinians of residency papers.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has again rejected US calls to halt construction in occupied East Jerusalem.

Palestinians in East Jerusalem are protesting what they say are preparations by Israel to demolish scores of Arab homes.

Car-parks and conservation areas, rich with Israeli symbols, are sprouting across East Jerusalem.

Shortly after the war, Israel annexed East Jerusalem.

Mitchell will press Israel to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and disputed East Jerusalem.

What's China's position on Israel's approval to set up new Jewish housing units in east Jerusalem?

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned as illegal recent Israeli plans to build new settlements in East Jerusalem.

Palestinians voted under tight security in the Gaza Strip, occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Arafat balked at not having sovereignty over all of East Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount. He turned the offer down.

Palestinians went on strike in protest over Israel's plans to demolish 88 Arab homes in disputed East Jerusalem.

Officials in Washington continue to press for direct negotiations in a bid to resolve core issues such as the status of East Jerusalem.

But Israel sees East Jerusalem as part of its capital and Mr.

Archaeological digs in the East Jerusalem are highly controversial.

Q: It's reported that Israel announced in its recent statement to build over 200 new settler homes in east Jerusalem.

An Israeli planning body has approved an initial plan to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem.

After Mr Netanyahu met him this week, he agreed to halt a building project in East Jerusalem.

The ban on Jewish worship was enforced by the Israeli government after the country took East Jerusalem from Jordan in 1967.

The Israeli government has given final approval for more than 900 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem.

Palestinian youths throw stones at Israeli border police vehicles during clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan July 27, 2010.

The settlements separate East Jerusalem from the West Bank.

Q: The Israeli Interior Ministry approved on September 27 the extension of Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem. What is China's comment?

Israel in the June 1967 Middle East war, annexed East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

When Israel won the 1967 war, it gained control of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.

Israel has announced plans to build some 3, 000 new homes in East Jerusalem and the West Bank since peace talks resumed six months ago.

These talks were stalled, however, after the Israelis on March 9 announced new settlement construction of 1, 600 homes in East Jerusalem.

We march in East Jerusalem.

Another 180, 000 settlers live in occupied east Jerusalem, a particularly contested slice of Palestinian territory.

According to Israeli human rights organization statistics, including East Jerusalem, West Bank, about 450, 000 Jews live in 100 settlements.

The proposal put before the UN, for example, could claim the 1967 lines as its borders and East Jerusalem as its capital.

Also worth a look is this video of 2, 000 Israelis and Palestinians waving Palestinian flags in East Jerusalem from Jaffa Gate last Friday.

Palestinian sovereignty over East Jerusalem; Palestinian control over half the Old City of Jerusalem;

Israel plans to build nearly 700 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem, defying