Israeli Military Stop Christian Leader From Visiting Central Hebron
A visit to Hebron, in the southern West Bank, by the Archbishop of Jerusalem, Fuad Twal, was cut short on Monday when Israeli forces stopped the Archbishop from entering the…
Wine Bottles Smashed In Al-Aqsa Compound
Local sources report that a number of Jewish settlers broke into the al-Aqsa compound and began drinking wine and smashing bottles on the floor.Consumption of alcohol is forbidden in Islam…
Settlers Torch A Mosque Near Ramallah
Local residents of Al Mughayyir village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, reported Tuesday at dawn that fundamentalist settlers set the local mosque ablaze, and wrote racist graffiti…
Thousands Of Zionists March In Jerusalem
Marking the so-called “Jerusalem Day”, approximately 30.000 Zionists marched in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday “celebrating 44 years of occupation and annexation of the holy city”, and clashed with Arab…
Israel Cancels Controversial Visit To Josephs Tomb
Israeli officials have cancelled the proposed incursion of the Israeli military into Josephs Tomb to escort Israeli settlers and MK’s into the area due to threat of counter protests among…
Israeli Officials Approve Settler Invasion into Nablus on Tuesday
Israeli Knesset (Parliament) Members and and illegal settlers have received approval from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barack to invade an area near Nablus known as ‘Joseph’s Tomb’ on Tuesday, accompanied…
Israeli Excavations Continue Under The Al Aqsa Mosque
The Al Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Endowment (Waqf) and Heritage reported Thursday that the Israeli Authorities are ongoing with their excavations under the Al Aqsa Mosque as they are ongoing…
Israel Concludes Tunnel Linking Silwan With the “Western Wall”
Uzi Dahari, in charge of the so-called Israeli Antiques Authorities, stated on Monday at night that the digging of a tunnel that links Silwan Arab town in East Jerusalem with…
Over 200 Graves to Be Destroyed in Jerusalem’s Islamic Cemetery
Jerusalem’s municipality ordered the excavation of around 200 graves in the city’s largest Islamic cemetery, The Palestinian Information Centre reported. A request by Jerusalem municipality and Land Administration to excavate…
Israeli government invades Muslim quarter to expand Jewish ‘Western Wall’ site
In a move that Muslim leaders in Jerusalem are calling a ‘provocation’, Israeli government officials on Saturday decided to expand the ‘Western Wall’ prayer site into the area known as…
Israel Starts Construction Of Hotel In Place Of Historic Graveyard In Jaffa
The Al Aqsa Foundation for Islamic Waqf and Heritage reported that Israel started the construction of a touristic hotel over a historic Islamic graveyard adjacent to the Big Mosque in…
As Bethlehem Readies For Christmas, All Markets Declared Free Of Settlement Products
During a special meeting with heads and officials of government institutions, and mayors in the Bethlehem district, Bethlehem Governor, Abdul-Fattah Hamayel, stated that as Bethlehem readies to celebrate Christmas, its…
Jewish Congress Leaders Demand Pope To Combat the ‘Delegitimization’ of Israel
On Friday, a delegation of the World Jewish Congress leaders met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, and urged the pontiff to combat what they called as a ‘new…
Hundreds of Israeli police demolish mosque; 1,000 Bedouins protest the demolition
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…
Athan Banned at Hebron’s Al-Ibrahimi Mosque 54 Times in One Month
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…
Israeli Settlers Burn Church in Jerusalem
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…
Army Orders Closure Of Ibrahimi Mosque For Two Days
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…
Abbas Visits the Restoration Works of the Nativity Church
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…
The Annual Hajj to Mecca Ready to Begin
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…
Ancient Mosque Vandalized by Rightist Israelis in Nazareth Area
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 Warn About the Flight of Christians from the Middle East
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 Plans A New Gate Into Jerusalem Walls
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…
Israeli Rabbis visit a mosque in Bethlehem, torched by settlers
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,…
Settlers Torch Mosque, Copies of the Holy Quran, Near Bethlehem
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…
Israel Starts Preparations To Construct A Bridge Adjacent To Al Aqsa Mosque
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…
Fundamentalist Jews Tear Quran Copies, Step On Them In Jerusalem
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…
Settlers Break Into The Yards Of The Al Aqsa Mosque
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…
250 thousand Palestinians pray in Jerusalem this Friday
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…
Israeli Army Escorts 500 Jewish Israelis Into Controversial Settlement Near Nablus
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…
Palestinians Exiled Since Nativity Church Raid In ‘02 Appeal To Return Home
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…
Israeli forces desecrate 200 graves in Muslim cemetery; injure Sheikh with bulldozer
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…
Israeli Court Begins Trial Against Palestinian Official For ‘Illegally Praying’ At al-Aqsa Mosque
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…
Israel’s secret police surveilling Islamic leaders
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.…
Fundamentalist Group Plans To Break Into The Al Aqsa Mosque
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…
Museum of Tolerance Desecrates Graves
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,…
Clashes Reported In East Jerusalem
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 Fundamentalist Knesset Members To Tour the Al Aqsa Mosque
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…
Palestinians Demand Entry to Jerusalem without permits during the Holy Week of Easter
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…
Clashes Reported at al-Aqsa & Ibrahimi Mosques
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…
Marking Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre; Hamas Calls For Intifada
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…
Abbas Concerned ‘Heritage Sites’ Dispute Will Cause Religious War; Hamas Calls For 3rd Intifada
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…
Al Rishiq: “Annexing Holy Sites, A New Aggression Against the Palestinians”
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…
Israel To Claim Ibrahimi Mosque, Bilal Mosque, As Historic Jewish Sites
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…
New Excavations Under the Walls Of Jerusalem’s Old City
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…
Israel Issues Stop-Work Order For Nablus Mosque
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…
Vatican: “Mid-east Conflict Lead Cause Of Christian Immigration”
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…
Silwan Street Collapse Increases, Meters Away From Al Aqsa Mosque Wall
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…
Israeli Excavations Lead To A Collapse Near The Al Aqsa Mosque
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…
Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church Faces Boycott at Christmas
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…
Chief Rabbinate In Israel Demands Not Displaying Christian Symbols
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…
Sheikh Salah Banned From Jerusalem
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…
Policemen From Bethlehem Will Be In Charge Of Security During Christmas
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 Shepherds Field Readies For Christmas
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,…
Report: “Excavations Ongoing At The Al Aqsa Mosque Area”
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 Froman: “Burning Yassuf Mosque, Blasphemy”
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…
Betawy: “Burning Salfit Mosque, Part Of Ongoing Attacks”
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…
Settlers Torch a Mosque Near Salfit
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 MK Demands Preventing Mosques For Calling For Dawn Prayers
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 Protests Over Excavation At The Church Of Holy Sepulcher
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: “Peace In Bethlehem Leads To Peace Everywhere”
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…
Sheikh Sabri Barred From Al Aqsa Mosque For Six Months
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…
Jewish Fundamentalist Groups Call For Attacking The Al Aqsa Mosque Sunday
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…
US Gave Israeli Green Light To Continue Its Violations In Jerusalem; Group Says
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…
Israeli Police Interrogates The Mufti Of Jerusalem For Several Hours
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…
Jordan protests Israel’s excavations in Jerusalem
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 warns of Israeli plans to demolish 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,…
Sabastiya, the city that died
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…
Islamic-Christian Front: “Jerusalem, its holy site under attack, international community silentâ€
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…
Messianic Jews in Israel demand inquiry into burning of bibles by Orthodox Jews
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…
Jerusalem Municipality officially approves a bridge construction leading to al Mughrabi Gate
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…
Al-Quds Municipality approves controversial Jewish-only bridge across Muslim holy site
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 Popular Committees demands Islamic Summit to protect the Aqsa Mosque
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…
Residents of Silwan continue their protest against tunnel under their lands
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…
The Islamic-Christian Front calls for protecting Jerusalem, its holy places
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…
Jailed Hamas legislators call for countering Israel’s plan to dig a tunnel near the Al Aqsa Mosque
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…
Fundamental Jewish groups increased their attacks in Jerusalem
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…
President Abbas attends Greek Orthodox Christmas Mass in Bethlehem
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…
Palestinians celebrate the Orthodox Christmas
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…
Sheikh Tamimi slams Israeli plan to build 20.000 settlers homes in Jerusalem
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…
Chief Islamic Justice slams Israeli demolishing of charitable society in Jerusalem
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.…
Mufti of Jerusalem: Israeli forces allow extremists to enter Al Aqsa Mosque under guise of tourism
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…
Christian Orgnaizations slam Israeli attacks against worshipers
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…
Threat to Al Aqsa Mosque greater than ever after media and critics swayed by Israeli campaign
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…
UNESCO Demands that Israel Halts Digging at the Al-Aqsa Mosque
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…
Israeli high court imposes restrictions on Sheik Ra’ed Salah in Jerusalem
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…
Israeli Authorities arrest Sheikh Ra’ed Salah in Jerusalem
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…
State Police ban interfaith news conference opposing Al –Aqsa ‘excavations’
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 woman dies of wounds sustained two weeks ago in Al Aqsa Mosque
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…
Muslims and Christians in Palestine Unite in Defense of Jerusalem
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…
OIC’s Foreign Ministers to Confront Israeli Digging around the Al-Aqsa Mosque
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 Police in Jerusalem on high alert Friday
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…
Six Hundred French Tourists Visit Bethlehem
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…
Israel launches webcam coverage of Al Aqsa excavation
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…
Sabri: “Digging near the Al Aqsa Mosque aims to gain control over it”
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…
Malaysia Demands UN Security Council to Intervene to Halt Digging in Jerusalem
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 to Postpone Construction at the Al-Aqsa Mosque
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,…
Israeli police close Palestinian schools in Jerusalem, fearing protests
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…
Israel continues excavating under Muslim holy site despite condemnations
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,…
Arab residents of Israel call on UN to stop Jerusalem dig near the Al Aqsa Mosque
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…