RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel on Sunday closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Muslim worshippers for two days due to Jewish holidays, according to the mosque director. “Israeli forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque and prevented the entry of Muslim worshipers, while Israeli settlers were allowed,” Ghassan Al-Rajabi told...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army targeted various locations in Syria claiming that rockets had been fired from Syria into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights early Sunday. The army said: “We are bombing Syria now in retribution.” Three rockets were launched at Natur and Avnei Eitan in southern Golan Heights, according to Isra...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right Jewish settlers early Sunday stormed the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli police guarded the Jewish settlers during the raid. The police began to be deployed around the Qibla Masjid and did not allow the Palestinians inside to go outside. They later started to take the Jewish settlers [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US Navy said Saturday it had deployed a nuclear-powered submarine equipped with missiles to the Middle East region. In a statement, US Navy spokesman Timothy Hawkins said submarine Florida entered the area on Thursday and began crossing the Suez Canal. “It is capable of carrying up to 154 Tomahawk land-attack cruise [&helli...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Thousands of residents have been displaced after gunmen killed at least 47 mourners in a Nigerian northcentral state, an official said Friday. Paul Hembah, a security adviser to the governor of Bemue State, told Anadolu gunmen opened fire on villagers Wednesday during a burial in Umogidi in Otukpo Local Government. ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Palestinians were injured Friday when Israeli soldiers opened fire during a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, said officials. The Palestinians were shot with live rounds in the raid in Burkin, according to a statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. They were taken to the Jenin State Hospital […]
Tel Aviv, Israel (AFP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mobilised police and army reserves late Friday after one man was killed and five people were wounded in a car-ramming attack in central Tel Aviv. The Magen David Adom emergency service said in a statement a man aged about 30 had been declared dead and five […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers on Friday vandalized Palestinian properties and closed the entrance to Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that settlers living in the settlement of Bet El closed the entrance leading to Ramallah and Al-Bireh cities using rocks and garbage containers, and prevente...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Two Israeli sisters were killed and their mother seriously wounded in a shooting in the occupied West Bank on Friday, hours after Israel bombarded Gaza and Lebanon. The broadening of the conflict since Israeli police stormed into Al-Aqsa Mosque drew appeals for restraint from the international community but Israel s...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip and Lebanon before dawn on Friday, saying it was in retaliation for several dozen rockets fired at Israel from both territories. It was the biggest salvo fired from Lebanon since Israel fought a devastating 34-day war with Iran-backed group Hezbollah in 2006 and the first time Israel ...
