LONDON (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief has called on the international community to address concerns on repeated violations of the status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem. Josep Borrell wrote on X that he shares Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi’s concerns about the repeated violations of the status quo of the Holy Sites [&h...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government will finance for the first time the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied East Jerusalem. According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, the office of Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu will allocate 2 million NIS ($545,000) for the project which is expected to...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Monday that “provocations only exacerbate tensions” after Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he would build a synagogue in Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. “Provocations only exacerbate tensions at a pivotal moment when all focus should be on the ongoi...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine strongly denounced a call by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday to build a synagogue inside the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem as an attempt to drag the region into a “religious war.” “The Palestinian people will not accept any harm to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which [&...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran on Tuesday rejected Western calls to stand down its threat to retaliate against Israel for the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran late last month. The Islamic republic and its allies have blamed Israel for Haniyeh’s killing on July 31 during a visit to the Iranian capital for [&hellip...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The storming of the al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem by hundreds of radical Israelis is “unacceptable,” the US Statement Department said Tuesday. “Let me just say clearly that the United States stands firmly for preservation of the historic status quo with respect to the holy sites of ...
Hundreds of right-wing politicians, including ministers, broke into two military bases in southern and central Israel. They were protesting the arrest of nine soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman Prison in the Negev desert. Videos circulated on social media showed ministers and members of the Knesset stormi...
Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has issued a call to destroy the Lebanese group Hezbollah. He said this as he visited the Kiryat Shmona illegal Israeli settlement following a Hezbollah rocket attack that sparked fires in several areas in northern Israel. Israeli firefighting teams on Tuesday continued to battle fir...
Ankara, Turkey – AFP Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that Israeli settlers were one of the main obstacles to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “One of the biggest obstacles to a solution are the actions of the usurpers, called settlers, who have invaded and stolen land that belonged to Palestinians,R...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir has urged the police to allow only a few thousand Muslims to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to Israeli media. During their meeting, Ben Gvir on Sunday told Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai to restrict the number of [&hellip...