A U.K.-based initiative to raise awareness about the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem has gone global. For the second year in a row, more than 50 countries are set to take part in Aqsa Week 2022, organizers said. The event, which runs from Feb. 24 to March 2, is being organized by the British-based Friends of […]
U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Israel of putting Palestinian children in cage-like prisons. The New York Democrat was speaking at the Democratic Socialists of America event during a campaign rally for Greg Casar, who is running for Congress in Texas. Ocasio-Cortez compared migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border to ...
A US congressional delegation led by House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah. The U.S. delegation would travel to Israel, Germany and the UK, said Pelosi’s office in a statement on Tuesday. The trip will focus on security, economy a...
A video showing an Israeli police dog mauling a 19-year-old Palestinian man during an arrest released Wednesday has sparked outrage. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees Affairs accused Israeli forces of deliberately letting the dog maul the young Palestinian, even though he wasn’t resisting arrest. “The occupation army deliberately l...
United Nations special envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg shed light Tuesday on the deteriorating situation in Yemen at the U.N. Security Council briefing. Grundberg called for an end to the devastating conflict that began in 2014, as civilian casualties surge and humanitarian aid dries up. Ending the war is a choice, he said. His comments [&helli...
In response to the killing of three civilians by the Israeli military, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an affiliate with Fatah, called for a “general mobilization” of its fighters. It also called for the cancellation of the Oslo Peace Agreement. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency an Israeli special forces member, hidden in a civilian vehicle, st...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A Sudanese envoy reportedly arrived in Israel this week for talks on boosting relations between Khartoum and Tel Aviv, according to Israeli media on Wednesday. “The envoy arrived to meet with Israeli officials, with the aim of strengthening relations between the two countries,” the official Israeli Public Broadcasting Co...
Parties return to 8th round of negotiations after consulting governments VIENNA (AA) – The eighth round of talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal continued Tuesday in Vienna. High-level representatives from Russia, China, Germany, UK, France and Iran are participating in the dialogue that is being chaired by Enrique Mora, the EU’s ...
Since last May, residents of Beita village southeast of Nablus have been protesting every Friday near the top of Jabal Sbeih, one of the area’s highest mountains. This is in response to illegal Jewish settlement activity there. Israeli soldiers have killed ten people from the village and injured more than 5,000 Palestinians using live and [&he...
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation or OIC on Sunday welcomed Amnesty International’s recent report on Israeli apartheid against the Palestinian people. Amnesty’s investigation shows Israel imposes a “system of oppression and domination over Palestinians, which constitutes a crime against humanity.” The OIC hailed the report as a con...
