An estimated 25,000 far-right Israeli ultra-nationalists, some chanting “Death to Arabs”, marched through the Muslim quarter of occupied Jerusalem yesterday in a now annual event seen as a major threat to the status quo in [ More … ]
Protected by heavily armed Israeli occupation police, 1,371 Israeli Jewish settlers accompanied by Knesset members stormed Al Aqsa Mosque and clashed with Palestinian Muslim worshipers inside the third Islamic holy site. Media sources and eyewitnesses [ More … ]
The bustling Sheikh Jarrah, one of the historic Jerusalem neighborhoods built outside its Ottoman city walls, faces a new-old wave of Judaization and forced displacement by Jewish and settler groups which forge history in order [ More … ]
Hamas has said it fired more than 100 rockets at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike destroyed a tower block in the besieged Gaza Strip. The 13-storey residential tower in [ More … ]
Amnesty International said evidence indicated Israel has launched ‘violent raids on al-Aqsa’ and ‘unprovoked attacks on peaceful demonstrators in Sheikh Jarrah.’ Amnesty International has condemned Israeli violence and forced evictions against Palestinians in occupied East [ More … ]
By: Mohamed Abu Saada* According to a study published by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), an Israeli think tank, President Donald Trump aims through his proposals known as the “Deal of the Century” [ More … ]
France’s Intelligence Online website and Israel’s Channel 10 reported that a secret meeting took place on June 17, 2018, in the Jordanian city of Aqaba at the request of the American envoys, Greenblatt and Trump’s advisor [ More … ]
The Israeli army has killed at least 28 Palestinians and injured at least 1,600 others alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. After [ More … ]
Al-Qaeda chief says embassy move is evidence negotiations and ‘appeasement’ have failed Palestinians Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on Sunday said America’s decision to shift its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem was evidence that negotiations and “appeasement” [ More … ]
Saudi King Salman bin Abdelaziz concluded the 29th Arab League Summit in Dhahran at the King Abdelaziz International Cultural Center. Although the Arab League Summit was named “Jerusalem Summit”, however, Arab nations are pessimistic that [ More … ]
Saudi Crown Prince and Egyptian President reportedly told PA chairman he has no choice but to accept Trump’s peace plan. Leaders from two important Arab nations have advised Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas to [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. established an “anti-Turkey front.” Even though it seems like it is targeting Iran, the country which the new axis is [ More … ]
Mohamed Abu Saada* Since the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States until his decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on December 6, 2017, the Palestinian National [ More … ]
While Egypt’s government was publicly condemning a US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a state intelligence officer was asking influential TV hosts in the country to persuade their viewers to accept it. On [ More … ]
An Egyptian intelligence officer quietly placed phone calls to the hosts of several influential talk shows in Egypt as President Trump moved last month to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “Like all our [ More … ]
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