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The Passover holiday in 2016 was marked by near-daily conflict as right-wing Israelis descended on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to perform religious rituals.(File/AFP)

April 10th, 2017 - 09:00 GMT

Dozens of Palestinians banned from Al-Aqsa ahead of Passover

For Palestinian Jerusalemites, the Jewish holiday season means an escalation in arbitrary detentions, house raids, and searches -- measures that terrify families.

Israel regularly withholds bodies of slain Palestinians for months on end, for fear that funerals would turn into protests. (AFP/File)

August 9th, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

Israel to return body of slain Palestinian man held since October

IDF officers at the scene of a separate stabbing incident in which the assailant was killed. (AFP/File)

June 6th, 2016 - 10:30 GMT

Palestinian teen given 18-year sentence on stabbing conviction

Israel frequently detains the bodies of Palestinians killed while allegedly carrying out attacks, preventing families from burying their relatives for months on end. (AFP/File)

May 17th, 2016 - 12:30 GMT

Israel returns bodies of Palestinian woman, boy to their families after months

In this file picture, Israeli soldiers arrest a young Palestinian boy following clashes in the occupied West Bank town of al-Khalil (Hebron). (AFP/File)

March 28th, 2016 - 09:09 GMT

Five Palestinians, including three minors, detained by Israeli forces

Israeli soldiers arrest a young Palestinian boy following clashes in the center of the West Bank town of Hebron, on June 20, 2014. (AFP/File)

March 16th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Israel imprisons seven children for throwing stones

Palestinian protesters throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron on November 20, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

March 3rd, 2016 - 06:30 GMT

Israel sentences 14-year-old to 1.5 years in prison

Israeli authorities are still withholding the bodies of nine Palestinian from Jerusalem, some since as late as September 8, 2015. (AFP/File)

February 15th, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

After 124 days, Israel finally returns Palestinian’s body to family

December 19th, 2015 - 02:00 GMT

Israel to return the bodies of Palestinians killed in Jerusalem: lawyers

December 1st, 2015 - 12:31 GMT

Israeli forces arrest four Palestinians, including two teens, in E Jerusalem

November 4th, 2015 - 11:25 GMT

Fresh clashes erupt between Palestinian students and Israeli troops

October 29th, 2015 - 11:30 GMT

Israeli forces arrest 13-year-old, seven others in East Jerusalem raids

December 25th, 2014 - 09:06 GMT