JARUSALEM (AA) – At least 42 people were injured on Friday in an Israeli police intervention with plastic bullets and sound bombs after dawn prayer. Israeli police intervened after Palestinian youths entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem from Bab al-Maghrib, one of the gates to the mosque, and threw stones after performin...
ISTANBUL – The family of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has received another death threat in an envelope that contained a bullet, according to the Israeli media. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation network (KAN) said the target of the threat letter was Bennett’s 17-year-old son Yoni. The incident is being investigated by ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye and Saudi Arabia are striving to increase all kinds of political, military and economic relations to start a new era, the Turkish president said early Friday. “We paid a visit to Saudi Arabia upon the invitation of Khadimu’l Haremeyn (the Servant of Mecca and Medina)”, said Recep Tayyip Erdogan, referring to [...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia on Thursday urged Israel to cease its strikes on Syria, saying the attacks are “categorically unacceptable and inadmissible.” Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova strongly condemned the Israeli actions, stressing that they violate international law. “We dema...
LONDON (AA) – The Guardian published an investigative report on Thursday with footage showing a massacre taking place in Tadamon, near Syria’s capital Damascus, in April 2013. The piece was called “Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal,” and written by Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov. Tadamon is a sub...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s housing policies in East Jerusalem amount to “racial segregation and discrimination” against the Palestinian people and a violation of their human rights, a group of UN experts said Thursday. The experts made their assessment based on reports that Palestinians have been subject to “discriminatory zoning and plannin...
RAMALLAH, PALESTINE (AA): Thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank flocked to an Israeli crossing leading to the city of Jerusalem, to observe Laylat al-Qadr at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday despite the tension in the city and the Israeli restrictions on their entry. Since early morning, traffic at the Qalandia security checkpoint — lo...
JOHANNESBURG – Israel’s growing influence in Africa — including that of obtaining observer status at the African Union, the largest political organization in the continent — has enraged many pro-Palestinian campaigners. Last month, activists from across Africa met in Senegal’s capital Dakar to mobilize support for the Palesti...
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has descibed its fifth round of tension-easing talks with Saudi Arabia as “positive” and “progressive”. The latest round of peace parleys, hosted by the Iraqi government, saw the participation of senior officials from Iran’s top security body and Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, according to offi...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli army fire during a raid in the occupied West Bank early Wednesday, according to the state news agency Wafa. Ahmed Mohamed Masad, 21, was shot in the head and died of his wounds in the town of Burqin, northwest of Jenin, Jani Abu Jokha, […]
