Jerusalem – Israeli PublicSecurityMinister Yitzhak Aharonovitch visited the flashpoint Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif compound in Jerusalem’s old city Tuesday, setting off a storm of protest among Muslims, who called the tour a ‘provocation.’

The British government has refused to heed a petition calling on the UK to impose an arms embargo on Israel and press other countries to stop supplying arms to the Jewish state.

But a future Palestine must be ‘demilitarized,’ and the Jewish settlements won’t be halted, Israel’s leader says.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli officials say the country will not halt construction in West Bank settlements even after the U.S. president’s explicit call to do so.

Clashes erupted on Saturday between settlers and left-wing activists who were trying to help Palestinians with agricultural work near the village of Safa in the West Bank.