Tag: Palestine-Israel

JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said they will continue building illegal settlements in Jerusalem in remarks that are likely to escalate ongoing tensions. Speaking after a Cabinet meeting, he rejected calls by the US and European states to halt forceful evictions of Palestinian families in occupied East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Claiming that Jerusalem has been capital of the Jewish people for thousands of years, he said: “As every nation builds in its capital, we too have the right to build in Jerusalem. This is what we have done...