RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Around 40,000 Palestinians offered Eid al-Adha prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, but there was no festive atmosphere. The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem said in a statement that about 40,000 worshippers performed Eid al-Adha prayers. The Palestinian news agency WAFA repo...
CAIRO (AA) – The leader of Hamas’ Political Bureau on Sunday said that his movement’s response to the cease-fire proposal aligns with the principles outlined in US President Joe Biden’s speech and the UN Security Council resolution regarding the Gaza Strip. Ismail Haniyeh’s remarks came during his Eid al-Adha speech fol...
Keighley, United Kingdom – AFP Gaza is a long way from the picturesque foothills of the Yorkshire Dales but the issue could swing UK general election races in northern England, with many local Muslims angry at Labour’s stance. While Labour is expected to win a thumping national majority on July 4, leader Keir Starmer’s refusa...
Palestinian Territories – AFP In tents in the stifling heat and in bombed-out mosques, people of Gaza marked Sunday the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, devoid of the usual cheer. “There is no joy. We have been robbed of it,” said Malakiya Salman, a 57-year-old displaced woman, now living in a tent […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Fourteen Palestinians, including at least one baby, were killed and many others injured on Saturday in an Israeli army airstrike targeting homes in eastern Gaza City, Wafa news agency reported. Israeli warplanes targeted three homes in the Al-Tuffah and Al-Shujaiya neighborhoods in Gaza City, resulting in the ...
Makkah, Saudi Arabia — AFP Months after losing her husband and children in the horrors of the Gaza war, Douaa al-Massarii is doing her best to find peace in the annual Islamic pilgrimage- the Hajj. The 33-year-old Palestinian, who has been living as a refugee in Egypt since February, is happy to now find herself […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli forces struck Gaza on Friday as truce efforts failed to make progress and tensions surged on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. Witnesses reported strikes on the southern city of Rafah and central areas of the Gaza Strip. At Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah, men...
Jerusalem – AFP The health ministry in Gaza said Friday that Israel has killed at least 37,266 Palestinians in the territory since early October last year. A ministry statement said that a total of 85,102 people have been wounded in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip. Besides, Israeli attacks have destroyed or damaged more than […]
The University of Minnesota has halted the employment of an Israeli historian as director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The decision comes within two days of Raz Segal being hired. Segal currently is a professor at Stockton University in New Jersey. In a recent article he authored, titled “A Textbook Case of Genocide,” he said […...
As more than a billion Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha, Gaza is mired in a severe humanitarian crisis. Nearly 2 million Palestinians face starvation, with rampant malnutrition casting a grim shadow over the Islamic holiday’s festive spirit. The Israeli blockade, restricting essential supplies for more than eight months, has made it impossible fo...
