The increase in casualties in Gaza, and injuring Anadolu Agency crew reveal Israel's "disproportionate" attacks, Anadolu Agency reported the Turkish Foreign Ministry as saying on Friday. "The rapid increase in civilian casualties in Israel's airstrikes against Gaza, the damage to the schools affiliated to the UN Relief and Works Agency for...

Israeli occupation forces "deliberately targeted Palestinian journalists who cover attacks and violations against Jerusalem and worshipers in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque", the Coalition For Women In Journalism (CFWIJ) has warned. At least 10 journalists, two of whom were women, were injured during the incidents. In a statement the CFWIJ...

Over the past week, Jerusalem and occupied Palestine have once again seen popular collective action, an almost spontaneous reaction to the repeated injustices and oppression amid the evictions in Sheikh Jarrah. Yet, within the midst of all the violence and chaos, a rather subtle, yet devious, narrative arises from...

The Biden administration has been presented with an opportunity to sound its rocket rhetoric after Hamas retaliated against the Israeli colonial violence unleashed upon Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. As Israel bombed the Gaza Strip, creating yet another wave of internally displaced Palestinians, US Secretary of State Antony...

In his Eid message, Fenerbahce star Mesut Ozil sent prayers to Palestinians who are facing incessant Israeli attacks, Anadolu Agency reported. "Eid Mubarak to all Muslims around the world. May all our fasts and duas be accepted from this blessed month. My prayers are with those who can't celebrate in...

The armed wing of Palestinian resistance group Hamas fired rockets against an airport and major cities in Israel, including Tel Aviv, the group said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The Al-Qassam Brigades group said in a statement that it had launched 250 Ayyash missiles towards Ramon Airport in southern Israel, about...

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki avoided a reporter's question whether US President Joe Biden believes Palestinians have a right to self-defense amid Israeli airstrikes, Anadolu Agency reported. "We've heard repeatedly with respect to the statements about violence in Israel that Israel has a legitimate right to self-defense but we're not hearing...

Israel has not over-reacted in its response to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, US President Joe Biden said on Thursday as the violence continued to escalate, Anadolu Agency reported. "One of the things that I have seen thus far is that there has not been a significant over-reaction," Biden said...

The UN Security Council will meet this weekend to discuss the situation in Israel and the Gaza Strip, the US announced Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. In announcing the Sunday meeting, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US's UN envoy, said the Biden administration "will continue to actively engage in diplomacy at the highest levels...

I am writing this letter looking at my terrified 6-year-old son, who keeps putting his hands over his ears trying block the sounds of Israel's bombardment, my two daughters, aged 13 and 10 and my wife. These faces show the anxiety of not knowing where they can be safe...

Abu Obayda, the spokesman for Hamas' armed wing the Ezzedine al–Qassam Brigades, yesterday delivered a televised address to mark the occasion of Eid al Fitr. After extending best wishes to people Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and the whole of Palestine, he appraised the ongoing confrontation with Israel. "This battle has come to affirm...

Israeli army says that they are launching air, ground and troops attacks against Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports. Israel's attacks on Gaza Strip since Monday leave 109 dead, including 28 children, 15 women, along with 621 injuries says the Health Ministry. The Israeli attacks come as Palestinian protesters demanded an end...

The ongoing talks in Vienna (Austria) between Iran and the P4 + 1 group of countries to revive the nuclear deal, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), has revived hopes of a wider thaw in relations between Iran and the United States. Most of the...

Hollywood star Gal Gadot has been slammed by Twitter and Instagram users for a post on the ongoing violence in Palestine, according to the Independent newspaper. Gadot, 36, who is from Israel and served her compulsory time in the Israeli Army posted: 💔 pic.twitter.com/cLgDdn70No — Gal Gadot (@GalGadot) May...

The Palestinian cause is a trickling genocide, slow but relentless, the president of the Confederation of Palestinian Communities in Latin America and the Caribbean (COPLAC) said Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reported. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Rafael Araya Masry said "there are grounds to talk about state terrorism carried out by...

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov agreed Thursday that Israel needs to stop attacks on the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reported. In a phone call, the two top diplomats reiterated that Israel should stop the bloodshed, according to a statement issued by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry....

As the Israeli aggression on Gaza continues for the third consecutive day, there is a conviction within the ranks of the occupation army that unless it strengthens its deterrence against Hamas in this round, the movement will threaten to resume attacks each time tension arises in Jerusalem. Although the...

Every year, usually during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as if Palestinians are somehow unreactive without food in their stomachs, Israel does something that makes its security forces and their actions increasingly predictable. Like an annual festival, it launches an assault against the Palestinian population, either in the...

Shocking live footage showed a gang of Jewish extremists dragging a motorist who looked Palestinian from his car and beating him unconscious, according to the Guardian. The attack took place in a district in Tel Aviv. The emergency services including the police and an ambulance arrived at the scene...

The Israeli Army posted a propaganda video on Twitter last night aimed at Westerners. The video claimed Israel was "under attack", and compared this to London, Paris or Washington being attacked. "What if it was Washington, Paris, London?" the video asked the viewer. The Twitter post was accompanied by...

Cairo and Ankara have been on opposite sides for much of the last eight years. Ankara saw the rise of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to power in 2013 and the imprisonment of its ally, former President Mohamed Morsi, as a blatant coup against the democratically-elected president in Egypt. An...

British lawmaker Layla Moran, who is of Palestinian descent, made an impassioned plea in parliament Wednesday for the UK to support every effort to stop the escalating violence in Israel and Palestine, especially in Jerusalem, Anadolu Agency reported. She started by reading the names of children killed in the latest bout...

Hundreds of Israeli extremists launched attacks on Arab nationals on Wednesday in several cities across Israel, according to local media reports, Anadolu Agency reported. In Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, dozens of Israelis attacked Arabs, leaving one seriously injured, Israel's state-owned news channel KAN reported. Clashes occurred between Israeli occupation forces...

Israeli security forces injured at least eight journalists covering the violent protests in East Jerusalem, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Anadolu Agency reported. They included freelance reporters, photojournalists and Anadolu Agency reporters, who suffered injuries between Friday and Monday at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the committee said Tuesday. "Journalists...

A star of the multi-million dollar Avengers movie franchise said it is time for sanctions to be imposed on Israel to free Palestinians. "Sanctions on South Africa helped free its black people – it's time for sanctions on Israel to free Palestinians. Join the call," Mark Ruffalo wrote on...

Twenty-five Democratic members of the US House of Representatives sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday, calling on him to pressure Israel to halt the planned forced eviction of Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, Anadolu Agency reported. "We write to express our deep concern about...

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Footage from video sharing app Tik Tok appears to show a boy from South Sudan being both physically and verbally abused in Egypt. The boy can be seen in front of a sink cleaning while constantly looking behind with fear as he is slapped on the neck and kicked....

A Turkish soldier died and four others were wounded in an attack on a supply convoy in northern Syria, Turkey's National Defence Ministry announced in a statement yesterday. "In the Operation Spring Shield zone, one of our hero fellow soldiers was martyred and four of our heroic fellow soldiers...

The abuse Israeli forces are inflicting on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank "stem from a decades-long pattern of Israeli authorities using excessive and vastly disproportionate force to quell protests and disturbances by Palestinians, often resulting in serious injury and loss of life", Human Rights Watch said yesterday. The Israeli attacks come...

A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead this morning by Israeli occupation forces in the north of the occupied West Bank city of Tubas, reported Wafa news agency. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Rashid Muhammad Abu Arreh was shot twice in the neck and chest and died immediately....

Turkey cancelled an invitation calling on Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz to attend the Antalya Diplomacy Forum following the recent Israeli attacks on Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem and Gaza, Anadolu Agency reported. Israel was informed of the cancellation through the Embassy of Turkey in Tel Aviv. The Antalya Diplomacy Forum is...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei first claimed back in 2015 that Israel won't see the next 25 years, "Firstly, you will not see the next 25 years," Khamenei said. "God willing, there will be no such thing as a Zionist regime in 25 years. Until then, struggling,...

Ramadan has been a tense month in Jerusalem; it started with the Israelis forbidding Palestinian Jerusalemites from using the area at the Damascus Gate as a public space for social and cultural activities, in their effort to undermine the identity and significance of the place for the Palestinian community....

As Israel continues to bombard Gaza following days of violent clampdown against Muslim worshippers in the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque, a top UN envoy has warned of an eruption of a "full-scale war." "Stop the fire immediately. We're escalating towards a full-scale war," Tor Wennesland, a Norwegian diplomat and the UN's...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation's Ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, publicly slammed BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis, accusing her of "double standards" during an interview on Israel's attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and East Jerusalem. Israeli occupation forces have stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque on numerous occasions over the past week, shot and abused Palestinian worshippers...

It seems it is the fate of Palestinians to face the worst of apartheid policies under Israel's military occupation. Denial of rights, dispossessions, expulsions, evictions, ID confiscations, house demolitions, land grabs, airstrikes, tank shelling, targeted assassinations, warships, refugees, military occupation. These are terms among many others that Palestinians are...

The UK government has announced measures to disrupt the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against the state of Israel by banning public bodies from launching their own boycotting campaigns. The planned reform would seek to "ensure a coherent approach to foreign relations" by stopping public bodies from...

Former Tunisian President, Mohamed Moncef Marzouki, said that the events currently taking place in Jerusalem and the Occupied Palestinian Territories expose Arab rulers who are accepting normalised ties with the occupation and feed the rise of a new Arab Spring. Marzouki told Al Jazeera: "Everybody is following what is happening...

The Palestinian government signed an agreement with the Palestine Doctors' Association putting an end to weeks of protests and strikes. Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh announced the signing of the deal at the start of his cabinet's weekly meeting, which was held in Ramallah. No details were provided as...

The eyes and ears of much of the world have shifted to Iran's tumultuous political climate, as the country's 18 June presidential elections loom ever closer. While many in the West perceive Iranian politics as a monolith of extremism and militant leaning Islam, the truth is in fact much...

Lockheed Martin said on Monday it is withdrawing personnel who support Iraq's F-16 fleet from Balad Air Base because of threats from militias in the region. "In coordination with the US government and with employee safety as our top priority, Lockheed Martin is relocating our Iraq-based F-16 team," Joseph...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday cancelled the official Eid Al-Fitr celebrations "to mourn the Palestinian martyrs" killed by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian presidency said Abbas contacted the member of the Fatah Central Committee, Ahmed Helles, North Gaza Governor, Salah Abu Warda, and other...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards yesterday held the US Navy responsible for the warning shots fired against Iranian military boats in the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards accused US naval ships of "unprofessional behaviour such as flying helicopters, firing flares and aimless and provocative shooting". The statement said...

Saudi Arabia's Deputy Defence Minister, Prince Khalid Bin Salman, arrived in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on an official visit yesterday. In a tweet, Prince Khalid, who was accompanied by a high-ranking Saudi delegation, said he met with Iraqi President Barham Salih, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Parliamentary Speaker Mohammed Al-Halbousi and...

Israeli occupation warplanes targeted residential buildings in Gaza last night, leaving Palestinians homeless. A 13-storey residential tower in western Gaza City collapsed after Israeli airstrikes targeted the building. There were no reports of casualties among the residents, who reportedly vacated the Hanadi tower before it was hit. The building...

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has blamed Israel for the aggression on the Palestinians in the occupied territories, including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry reiterated that the continuous Israeli aggression on the Palestinians and using "disproportionate" force to oblige the Palestinians give up their...

Head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Archbishop Atallah Hanna hailed on Tuesday the victory of Palestinians in the battle to defend Jerusalem and the holy sites, Rai al Youm reported. "During a tour around and inside Al Aqsa Mosque we met champions who do not accept to surrender to the...

Israel asked the United States not to intervene in the Jerusalem crisis or pressure Tel Aviv to stop the recent "escalation in violence" between the Israeli security forces and Palestinian civilians in Al-Aqsa Mosque, Axios reported on Monday. According to the site, although the White House has avoided clashing with Israel...

The Joint Room of military wings for Palestinian factions said on Tuesday it will never ignore Jerusalem, stressing that the holy city "will no more be isolated." The Joint Room also said that its factions had warned the Israeli occupation of its continued aggression on the Palestinian people and...