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A massive force of Israeli police, accompanied by officials with the Israeli Lands Administration, descended on the Palestinian Bedouin town of Rahat, in southern Israel, where they demolished a mosque…
The Muslim call to prayer (Athan) was prohibited by the Israeli authorities at Hebron’s al-Ibrahimi Mosque for 54 times, during the month of October, the Middle East Monitor reported. Palestinian…
A hundred year old church was burned, Friday, by right-wing Israeli settlers, who broke a number of windows of the church and hurled Molotov cocktails inside.The damage to the church…
The Israeli army decided to close the Ibrahimi mosque, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, for Muslim worshipers for two days in order to allow Jewish worshipers to…
On Monday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the site of restorations being carried out on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Abbas said that he was happy to see…
Beginning Thursday, Muslim Palestinians from the West Bank will start the annual pilgrimage to Mecca via the Allenby Bridge on the West Bank’s border with Jordan. The Palestinian Authority crossings…
On Sunday, vandals attacked an ancient mosque in Ma’alul village near Nazareth, inside Israel. They removed the stones and spray-painted slogans of the Israeli settler movement on the walls. According…
Bishops meetings with a Vatican synod to discuss the immigration of Christians from the Middle East have blamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for spurring the exodus.Bishops claimed that the region is…
Israel is preparing a plan reportedly meant for renovating sections of the occupied Old City of Jerusalem, including opening a gate in the City’s walls for the first time since…
On Tuesday a number of Israeli Rabbis visited the mosque that Israeli settlers burned in the village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem on Monday. Governor of Bethlehem Abdul Fattah Hamayel,…
A group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers broke into a mosque, on Sunday at night, in Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem, and set it ablaze. The settlers burnt twelve copies of the…
The Al Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage issued a statement on Thursday evening revealing that the Israeli Authorities started preparations for the construction of a bridge at the Mughrabi…
A group of fundamentalist Jews tore copies of the Muslim holy Quran in Jaffa Street in West Jerusalem, and deliberately stepped on them.The Maan News Agency reported that resident Mohammad…
Local sources reported that nearly 130 settlers broke into the yards of the Al Aqsa mosque on Monday morning while the Israeli police kept the Palestinians away. The settlers broke…
At least 250 thousand Palestinians prayed in the Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding yards on the last Friday of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan, Palestinian media sources reported. Israeli…
500 Israeli citizens, escorted by dozens of military vehicles, drove by bus deep into the West Bank on Wednesday in a provocative visit to a West Bank settlement. The settlement…
A group of 39 Palestinians who were exiled by Israel, after they sought refuge in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002, have submitted an appeal through the…
A Jerusalem Sheikh who tried to stand in the way of Israeli bulldozers demolishing a Muslim cemetery was injured Tuesday, as the Israeli government continued the desecration of hundreds of…
Court proceedings began Wednesday morning in Jerusalem for Hatem Abdel Qader, the Palestinian Chief of Jerusalem Affairs. He was charged with ‘violating a military order’ preventing him from praying at…
Job interviews for the position of imam at mosques in Israel are conducted not by senior clerics but by the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police, a labor tribunal has revealed.…
A fundamentalist Jewish group, calling itself Temple Mount & Erez Yisrael Faithful, issued a statement declaring its intention to march towards the Al Aqsa Mosque Thursday to mark the Jewish…
Rabbi Marvin Hier’s Los Angeles-based Museum of Tolerance, part of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is building a $150 million branch in Jerusalem. The Museum, whose mission is confronting ‘global anti-Semitism,…
Local sources reported Monday that clashes took place between Palestinian youths and Israeli policemen near the Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. The clashes erupted after a group of…
Three Israeli Knesset members of the National Union fundamentalist party stated that they intend to tour the yards of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Wednesday. The three, Uri…
Palestinian Christian organizations, figures and many other Palestinians from the Jerusalem and the surrounding area have sent a letter on March 4, to the heads of churches in Jerusalem, demanding…
Following Friday prayers, clashes have occurred at both al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem, and Ibrahimi mosque, Hebron.At al-Aqsa, Friday prayers were followed by protest by young men from the city throwing stones…
As the Palestinians marked the 16th anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, the Hamas movement issued a statement calling for a new…
During a speech made to the Belgian Parliament in Brussels, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas expressed his concern that the listing of the Ibrahimi Mosque and the Mosque of Bilal as…
Izzat al-Rishiq, member of the Political Bureau of Hamas movement, stated that the Israeli decision to annex the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron and the Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem, to consider…
Bethlehem will be holding a general strike, on Tuesday, to protest the Israeli government’s decision to annex the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and the Bilal Mosque to the so-called ‘Historic…
The al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage reported that the Israeli authorities started new excavations under the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The foundation stated that most of…
An Israeli government decision has stopped construction of the Salman Al Farisi mosque in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The order was delivered by…
The Vatican has prepared a document to be discussed during the upcoming October meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and approximately 150 priests from the Middle East. The meeting, to be…
The Committee for Defending the Lands and Structures in Silwan town, in East Jerusalem, reported that the land slide and collapse that took place on Monday morning in the main…
The ongoing illegal Israeli excavations near and under the Al Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding areas, in occupied East Jerusalem, caused on Monday at dawn a collapse in the center…
13 members of the Greek Orthodox church in Palestine will boycott the Patriarch over accusations of leasing land to an Israeli development company.With the Greek Orthodox Christmas approaching on January…
As the Christian world celebrates Christmas, and as Christians in Palestine and in Israel celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, the Chief Rabbinate in Israel recommended that hotels…
The head of the so-called Home Front Command of the Israeli Military, Gen, Yari Golan, decided on Monday to ban Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Northern Branch of the…
Unlike previous years, the Palestinian Authority decided that all policemen and security personnel who would be deployed in Bethlehem during Christmas will be from the Bethlehem district.Usually the Palestinian Authority…
The city of Beit Sahour, known as the Shepherds Field where, according to the Bible, the angel appeared to the Shepherded and asked them to follow the star to Bethlehem,…
The Aqsa foundation for Waqf and Heritage has revealed large scale Israeli excavations being executed in the area adjacent to the southern wall of Al-Aqsa mosque, the area is also…
Rabbi Menachem Froman stated Friday that torching of the mosque in Yasuf Palestinian village is a blasphemy and an act that does not represent Judaism as it is an insult…
Palestinian Legislator, Sheikh Hamed Betawy, said that the Friday at dawn torching of the Great Mosque in Salfit is not the first or the last attack carried out by fundamentalist…
A group of fundamentalist Jewish settlers burnt on Friday at dawn large sections of the “Great Mosque” in Yasuf village, near the central West Bank city of Salfit. The settlers…
Israeli member of Knesset (MK) Arie Bibi of the Kadima party headed by Tzipi Livni, intends to file a proposal to the Knesset to vote on preventing the mosques in…
Jordan filed an official complaint to Israel demanding it to stop the excavations and renovations at the Church of Holy Sepulcher in East Jerusalem.The letter was handed to the Israeli…
Bethlehem Mayor, Victor Batarsa, stated in an interview with the Globe newspaper, based in Joplin Missouri in the United States, that peace starts in Bethlehem, the city of Nativity and…
The Israeli Authorities in Jerusalem handed Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Committee in Jerusalem, a restriction order preventing him from entering the Al Aqsa Mosque, in East…
A number of fundamental groups in Israel called on their supporters to attack the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Sunday as part of a ceremony dedicated to the ‘temple…
The Islamic-Christian Committee in Support of Jerusalem and the Holy Sites accused the United States administration of granting the government of Benjamin Netanyahu a green light to continue its violations…
The Israeli police interrogated Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the Mufti of Jerusalem and the head of the Higher Islamic Committee, after claiming that he incited the Palestinians to conduct acts that…
Israeli sources reported on Thursday that the Jordanian Foreign Minister, Salah Bashir, met with the Israeli ambassador in Jordan to protest against the Israeli excavations near the Al Aqsa mosque,…
Islamic Jihad leader, Ibrahim an-Najjar slammed the ongoing excavations Israel is carrying out under the Mughrabi Gate ramp near the Western Wall (Al-Buraq Wall) and the Aqsa Mosque Noble Sanctuary,…
Once a popular tourist attraction, the ancient city of Sabastiya, located ten kilometers from Nablus, is being economically strangled. Treachorous bypass roads make the trip difficult and can take several…
The Islamic-Christian Front for Defending Jerusalem and its Holy Sites, stated on Monday that Israel is using the current scandals Olmert is facing as a cover-up for its continued illegal…
After a massive 'bible burning' by the deputy mayor and orthodox Jewish students in the town of Or Yehuda, in Israel, a group of Messianic Jews, have called for an…
The Regional Committee for Construction and Planning which belongs to the Jerusalem Municipality officially approved on Wednesday the construction of a planned bridge which leads to Al Mughrabi Gate “The…
On Sunday night, the Committee for Planning and Building of the Jerusalem Municipality approved a plan for constructing a new bridge, the al-Mugrabi bridge, across the ground of the Al-Aqsa…
The Palestinian Popular (Folk) Committees issued a press release demanding the Islamic Summit to issues serious resolutions in order to protect the Al Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem, in addition to…
Dozens of residents of Silwan town, near Jerusalem, Israeli and international activist, continued their protest in the protest tent installed on the land of resident Ahmad Siyam as Israeli settlers…
Dr. Hasan Khatir, secretary-general of the Islamic-Christian Front for Defending Jerusalem and its Holy Places, called on the rich Arab and Muslim residents in the Arab World to participate in…
Hams legislators, detained by Israel, called on the Palestinian people to counter a new Israeli plan to dig a new tunnel under the Islamic Neighborhood, near the Al Aqsa Mosque…
Local sources in Jerusalem reported that Israeli military bulldozers, and fundamental Jewish groups increased their attacks against the Palestinian areas in Jerusalem and started on Thursday to dig a street…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attended the midnight Orthodox Christmas Mass at the Church of Nativity in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday.The city of Bethlehem marked the…
The city of Bethlehem marked the beginning of the celebration for the Orthodox Christmas on Sunday. Local Palestinians and international visitors flocked to the city from the early morning. Boy…
Chief Islamic Justice, Sheikh Taiseer Tamimi, slammed that Israeli plan to construct 20.000 homes for Israeli settlers, in two settlement neighborhoods which will be constructed on lands illegally seized from…
Palestinian Chief Islamic Justice, Sheikh Taiseer Tamimi, slammed that Israeli demolishing and bulldozing of a Palestinian charitable society and several houses in Al Esawiyya area in the occupied East Jerusalem.…
For three days, dozens of fundamentalists from “Zion Christ” have stormed the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque under the heavy guard of Israeli police and special units. They went toward…
Non-government Palestinian Christian Organization demanded on Monday the international community to act in order to stop the Israeli attacks and violations to the rights of Palestinian worshipers and the holy…
A prominent Jerusalem cartographer reported Saturday, “The demolition and excavation that began at the Moroccan Gate will allow Israelis and extremist Jews free access to the courtyard of Al Aqsa…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) demanded that Israel halts the current excavations being carried out near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. A UNESCO…
An Israeli court imposed restrictions on the movement of Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, barring him from entering public places in…
The Israeli police forces arrested Al Shikh Ra’ed Salah, the chif of the Islamic movement inside the Green Line on Wednesday midday. When he was arrested, Al Shikh Salah was…
On Wednesday the Israeli police force entered a hotel in East Jerusalem, where a news conference was to be held by Muslim and Christian figures opposing recent excavation works near…
Palestinian medical sources in Jerusalem reported on Sunday that a Jerusalem woman died of wounds she sustained two weeks ago. She was injured during an Israeli attack that targeted people…
Sheikh Tayseer Al Tamimi, Islamic Supreme Judge and Attalah Hanna, Senior Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church in Palestine, declared yesterday the formation of a joint Islamic-Christian front for…
A meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is due to be convened by Thursday in the Saudi Arabian city of Jedda. Its aim is…
Israeli news reported on Thursday night that Israeli Police Commissioner, Moshe Karadi, said during a security assessment that some 3,000 police and Border Police forces will be deployed on Friday…
Led by the Arch-Bishop of Paris Andre the 23rd, around six hundred French tourists visited the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday. Led by the Arch-Bishop of Paris…
On Thursday the Israeli Antiquities Authority, who started demolishing an entrance to the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem last Tuesday, launched online visual coverage of the excavation it is continuing…
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, slammed the Israeli digging near the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. He considers it part of an Israeli plan to…
On Tuesday Malaysia, a large Islamic country, called the UN Security Council to intervene to halt the Israeli authorities’ construction works at the Al-Aqsa mosque of east Jerusalem, which is…
Israel decided Monday to suspend construction of a new bridge near the Al-Aqsa mosque of Jerusalem, allowing the Israeli public to have their say, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski said. However,…
For the last week, while Israeli forces have been excavating a controversial area around the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, hundreds of schoolchildren have been denied access to education.For the last…
Despite mounting condemnations by many worldwide bodies, Israeli bulldozers continued digging around the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied east Jerusalem. The Israeli cabinet today deemed the excavations ‘necessary’. The decision,…
Several Arab leaders in Israel called on the international community to act against the Israeli digging near the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The leaders said that East Jerusalem is…
Cairo will be passing a bill at the upcoming Arab Foreign Ministers meeting, due to be held shortly, condemning in the strongest terms underway Israeli digging around the Al-Aqsa mosque…
Israeli police has abducted a number of Palestinian high school students and injured some others in the old city of Jerusalem on Saturday morning. The school students organized a protest…
The extremist right-wing minister, Avigdor Lieberman, demanded that Israel should respond more severely to the protests against the digging Israel is conducting near the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.Lieberman, the…
At least twenty-thousand Arab residents of Israel, residents of Nazareth city, protested on Friday against the Israeli excavations near the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.The protest took off after Friday…
While Israeli army attacked Friday Muslim worshippers at the Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied east Jerusalem, more criticism has been reported against Israeli digging around the mosque, the third holiest site…
The Israeli army and police attacked the Palestinian worshipers inside the Aqsa mosque in the old city of Jerusalem on Friday. Eyewitnesses stated that massive Israeli forces invaded the main…
On Thursday, Israeli bulldozers continued digging near the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. In the streets, thousands of Palestinians continued their protest against the digging, and the Israeli police is…
Israeli Defense Minister, Amir Perets, called Thursday his Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert to reconsider digging by Israeli bulldozers around the Al-Aqsa mosque in the occupied east Jerusalem. Perets expressed concern…
Palestinian media sources reported on Thursday that the Supreme Judge of Palestine, Tayseer Al-Tamimi has called for the Muslim world to simultaneously express their outrage at the excavations being carried…
Amidst continued digging by Israeli authorities around the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, several world bodies including states and organizations voiced concern over the actions, calling for their immediate halt. The…
On Wednesday Israeli police restricted access to the Al Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem for the second consecutive day while controversial demolition is underway. Only Muslim men…
The Israeli department of archeology continued on Wednesday morning to bulldoze the Mugarbi road leading to the Al Aqsa mosque in the old city of Jerusalem. Palestinians living in Israel…
King Abdullah of Jordan stated on Tuesday that the Israeli digging near the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem is considered an Israeli attack against one of the sacred Muslim holy…