An Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has urged the U.N. Security Council to implement a binding resolution for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and urgent humanitarian aid. The summit, attended by the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemned Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza and Lebanon. The final statement pr...
Israel has killed as many as 25 Palestinians since dawn Tuesday in an airstrike targeting a crowded area in the city of Deir el-Balah. The situation in Beit Hanoon remains dire as the area has been under siege for more than 40 days. Families displaced by Israel’s ongoing violence have sought refuge in schools and […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian resistance group Hamas claimed Tuesday to have killed and injured 10 Israeli soldiers in an ambush in the northern Gaza town of Jabalia. The group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said its fighters detonated a house in Al-Qasaseeb area as Israeli soldiers moved into the building. It confirmed [&hel...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani police on Tuesday said they arrested a policeman who was behind the deadliest attack on police in northwestern Peshawar city in 2023, in which over 100 people were killed and 250 others injured. Speaking to reporters in Peshawar, provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat Gandapur said police constable Muhammad Wali ...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – Israeli fan groups were responsible for the violence surrounding the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv UEFA Europa League match in Amsterdam last week, said a senior member of an anti-Zionist Jewish group. In an interview with Anadolu, Anna Joseph, Leadership Council member of Erev Rav, a Jewish collective in the Netherlands, clarified th...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AA) – Palestine supporters gathered Monday in San Francisco to demand an end to US support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Waving Palestinian flags, they chanted “Free, Free Palestine!” They also held signs saying “Stop Arm$ for War Crime$,” “Not Another Bomb,” “Stop Arming Israel,...
In a bid to create a level-playing field for Shariah-based banking, a new draft law in Bangladesh will prohibit conventional banks from offering Islamic banking services. Under the proposed Islami Bank Company Act-2024, banks that wish to provide Shariah-compliant banking must either form a subsidiary or adjust their business model. Currently,...
A prominent Palestinian Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a fatwa (Islamic ruling) condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The attack, in response to Israel’s occupation of Palestine, led to a brutal Israeli response, which has almost leveled Gaza and killed over 43,000 Palestinians, mostly children and women. Salman al-Dayah, a fo...
Israeli airstrikes on Monday killed dozens across Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria in a series of deadly attacks. In northern Gaza’s Jabalia, 36 people were killed in one assault, and another 23 were killed in a strike on Almat village, near the Lebanese capital Beirut. Overnight, Israeli forces also bombed Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, killing ...
BERLIN (AA) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has criticized Israel for not allowing sufficient humanitarian aid into Gaza. “Never in the last 12 months has so little aid come to the Gaza Strip as now. A large proportion of the more than 2 million people suffer from acute malnutrition and live in unimaginable conditions,” [&hel...
