JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli security officers on Friday morning attacked journalists covering clashes at Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. The officers were caught on Anadolu Agency Video News (AAVN) camera rushing at cameramen outside the mosque who were filming some officers carrying a seriously injured man. The AAVN cameraman running away from the p...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli police once again stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in East Jerusalem on Friday, sparking clashes with Palestinians in which 31 people were injured. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its crews responded to 31 injured people, two of them seriously hurt. It also said 14 injured were […...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth who was shot earlier this month by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank died on Friday, Palestinian media reported. The Palestinian news agency WAFA said 20-year-old Ibrahim Lebedi was seriously wounded when Israeli forces raided the town of Al-Yamun near the city of Jenin in the northern [&helli...
GAZA STRIP (AA): Israeli warplanes bombarded two sites in the Gaza Strip early Thursday belonging to the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian organization Hamas. Warplanes targeted two sites in central and southern Gaza, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent. No casualties or injuries were reported by the Pa...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Several Israeli websites came under a cyberattack by an Iraqi hacker group, local media reported Wednesday. The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported that they included one belonging to Israel’s Aviation Authority, Channel 9’s website and the website of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN). The cyberattack...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Intelligence Ministry claimed Wednesday to have arrested three people working for the Israeli spy agency Mossad in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan. In a statement, the ministry’s local branch in the border province said the three “Mossad agents” were involved in transferr...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A long battle of Palestinians with Syrian backgrounds has concluded, with those coming from the war-torn Middle Eastern nation winning protection rights under the UN Convention in a European country. Ghada al-Rayan, a Palestinian-Syrian human rights defender, told Anadolu Agency that the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerla...
JERUSALEM (AA) – More than 700 Israeli settlers forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday, according to a Palestinian agency. In a statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees the holy sites in Jerusalem, said 762 settlers stormed the site and stayed there for about ...
JERUSALEM: A number of far-right Israeli groups gathered on Wednesday in West Jerusalem to mark the anniversary of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967. It is called Jerusalem Day by the Israelis. Among the group was also far-right lawmaker Itamar BenGvir despite a ban on his attending the march. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali [&he...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced deep concern Wednesday about the “deteriorating situation” in Jerusalem and violence in and around the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement that Guterres is actively “engaged with leaders to do all they can to lower tensio...
