Category: Holy sites

On Tuesday morning, just before dawn, Israeli troops shot and killed 17-year old Othman Atef Abu Kharj, shooting him with live ammunition in the head and shoulder during an invasion…

Israeli forces attacked, on Monday, Palestinian demonstrators who gathered along the eastern border between Gaza and the state of Israel, shooting two with live rounds, and injuring ten others, the…

Israeli forces attacked, late Wednesday night, Palestinian civilians who gathered along the eastern border of the besieged Gaza Strip, according to local sources. Media sources said that Palestinian youths gathered…

[Haifa] July 23, 2023 (WAFA) – Today, Sunday, settlers attempted to storm the Roman Catholic Church and Monastery of Mar Elias on Mount Carmel in Haifa. Eyewitnesses reported that about…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, July 19, 2023 (WAFA) – The Islamic-Christian Committee in Support of Jerusalem and its Sanctuaries today condemned what it called “the barbaric attack” carried out by Jewish religious…

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, July 11, 2023 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Tuesday seized the family house of Sob Laban in the Old City in Jerusalem after breaking into it under the protection of…

On Wednesday, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) reported that Israeli soldiers and police officers abducted seventeen Palestinians from the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and at its gates, in occupied…

Earlier Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Bab Ar-Rahma Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and attacked many worshipers before abducting some of them. Media sources said the soldiers surrounded the…

Illegal Israeli settlers stormed, on Wednesday, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem while occupation police provided security, according to local sources. According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, at…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded a mosque in Deir Sharaf town, west of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded the…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers abducted six Palestinians, including one woman, in occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank and imposed severe restrictions on entry to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. In Al-Wad Street…

On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers and colonizers assaulted and injured many Palestinians and abducted others in many parts of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Many colonizers, accompanied by soldiers…

On Friday, dozens of Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers assaulted many Palestinians near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, injured several Palestinians, and caused damage to cars. Media…

On Thursday, Israeli soldiers and police officers abducted at least ten Palestinians, while illegal colonizers assaulted four during the provocative flags processions the colonizers held in occupied Jerusalem amidst numerous…

Dozens of fanatic illegal Israeli colonizers, including an extremist Member of Knesset, accompanied by soldiers and police officers, stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque after the army assaulted and…

On Monday, the Israeli Navy released two Palestinian fishermen who were abducted a year ago after navy ships attacked Palestinian fishing boats with live fire and water cannons in Palestinian…

On Thursday, the Israeli occupation soldiers and colonizers continued their aggression against the Palestinian people and their property. These attacks included settler attacks in which armed Israeli paramilitary settlers injured…

On Thursday morning, large groups of illegal Israeli colonizers continued their invasions of the Al-Aqsa Mosque courtyards in the occupied capital Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The colonizers were accompanied…

On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers at the Chain Gate (Bab Al-Silsila) near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem summoned a young Palestinian man for interrogation and prevented dozens from entering the…

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers abducted an Employee of the Waqf and Islamic Endowment Department, and a young Turkish woman, in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in…

On Thursday, Israeli soldiers abducted a young Palestinian woman at one of the gates leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The Palestinian…

  RAMALLAH, Wednesday, April 12, 2023 (WAFA) – The Higher Presidential Committee for the Follow-up of Church Affairs in Palestine today called on the Palestinian Christians to participate in large…

  On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers abducted two young men and imposed house arrest orders on six Palestinian children, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has…

Israeli police abducted, on Friday, 15 Palestinian Muslim worshipers, and assaulted others near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, local sources reported. On the third Friday of the…

On Wednesday night, an illegal paramilitary colonizer shot a Palestinian child in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the colonizer shot Khader Ghorab, 15, wounding him in…

On Wednesday evening, Israeli soldiers shot a young man with live fire and caused many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron,…

On Wednesday evening, dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, fired gas bombs and concussion grenades, and assaulted dozens of worshipers while forcing them out of…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR: Last night and today at dawn and in the morning, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided al-Aqsa Mosque and its praying halls, violently…

Just a few hours after massive invasions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, the injuring of scores of Muslim worshippers, and the abduction of at least 200, the army…

On the dawn of the fourteenth day of the Holy Muslim month of Ramadan, dozens of Israeli soldiers and police officers invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its courtyards and caused…

On Monday, dozens of Israeli soldiers accompanied groups of colonizers into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem and abducted four Palestinians. Media sources said dozens of soldiers…

On Sunday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Qibli Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound in occupied Jerusalem to facilitate invasions by groups of illegal colonizers into the holy site. Media…

A group of 134 paramilitary colonial Israeli settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate on Sunday, with heavy security provided by the Israeli occupation police. The invasion…

On Saturday dawn, a young Palestinian man from Houra Bedouin village in the Negev died from serious wounds suffered Friday evening after Israeli soldiers shot him with live fire at…

Earlier Tuesday, Israeli soldiers invaded the Bedouin area in Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and handed an order to demolish a local…

GENEVA, Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (WAFA) – World Council of Churches general secretary Jerry Pillay today condemned an attack by Jewish extremists that took place in the Church of Gethsemane,…

Two colonial paramilitary settlers invaded the Church of the Tomb of the Virgin Mary, Gethsemane, in occupied Jerusalem on Sunday and attacked worshipers with a metal pipe, including hitting a…

Israeli forces on Thursday assaulted two Palestinian children, age 6 and 8, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to local sources. The Palestinian news agency Wafa…

127 armed Israeli colonial settlers stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, on Sunday. The colonial settlers invaded the holy site from the side of…

Clashes broke out between young Palestinian men and the Israeli occupation forces, on Monday evening, at the “Atara” checkpoint, north of Ramallah, in the central West Bank. Local sources reported…

On Saturday, Israeli soldiers abducted a young Palestinian man from his home near occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank and issued an order barring a man from entering the Al-Aqsa…

On Thursday, an illegal Israeli colonizer invaded a church in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem and caused damage to it before trying to burn it. Yousef Daher, the head…

On Thursday dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted five young Palestinian men, including siblings, and invaded a mosque in Al-Biereh city and Kafr Malek village, in the Ramallah and Al-Biereh Governorate, in…

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians, including a child, in Silwan and Sur Baher, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the soldiers…

JERUSALEM, Sunday, January 22, 2023 (WAFA) – Scores of Israeli settler fanatics guarded by police today broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, according to witnesses. WAFA correspondent…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers assaulted a young Palestinian man near the Gate of the Tribes, leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said…

On Thursday night, Israeli soldiers attacked many Palestinians in Bab Al-Amoud in occupied Jerusalem and forced them to leave. Media sources said the soldiers accompanied dozens of illegal Israeli colonizers…

On Sunday morning, dozens of illegal Israeli colonizers, accompanied by many soldiers and police officers, stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem and conducted provocative tours. Media…

The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR (Weekly Update 29 December 2022- 04 January 2023) Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Three Palestinians, including 2 children,…

JERUSALEM, Wednesday, January 04, 2023 (WAFA) – The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem today condemned what it described as the wanton vandalism by Jewish extremists of the Protestant Cemetery in the…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the occupied capital Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers, stationed at the various gates…

On Sunday morning, Israeli soldiers abducted a Palestinian woman near Bab Al-Asbat, one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. The soldiers stopped…

 (Weekly Update 24-30 November 2022) The Palestinian Center For Human Rights – PCHR  Violation of the right to life and bodily integrity: Five Palestinian civilians, including 2 brothers, were killed…

On Thursday morning, dozens of Israeli soldiers and illegal colonizers invaded the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, attacked worshipers, and abducted a civilian guard. Media sources said…

On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers attacked several Palestinian women near the Chain Gates in Jerusalem’s Old City and abducted one while heading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque after the army closed…

On Thursday, Israeli soldiers abducted a Palestinian woman, a former political prisoner, in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers stopped Ayyam…

On Wednesday, dozens of illegal Israeli colonizers invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank, before Israeli soldiers, who accompanied them, abducted two civilian guards of the…

HEBRON, Monday, October 10, 2022 (WAFA) – A week after fanatic Jewish settlers had desecrated the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron with singing and dancing,…

JERUSALEM, Saturday, October 08, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces today attacked and dispersed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and injured and arrested some of them while celebrating Prophet Mohammad’s Birthday…

Updated: On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians, including a young woman, near the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Update: The WAFA News Agency said…

On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted two young Palestinian men, detained four, and assaulted one, in the Old City, the Al-Isawiya, Silwan, and At-Tour towns, in occupied Jerusalem, in the…

On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers injured three Palestinians and abducted five others after dozens of soldiers and illegal colonizers invaded the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, in…

JERUSALEM, Monday, September 19, 2022 (WAFA) – The Israeli police today broke into the home of the director of Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar Kiswani in al-Tur neighborhood of occupied East…

On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians, including a guard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers abducted…

RAMALLAH, Thursday, August 18, 2022 (WAFA) – This morning, around 3:00 a.m. local time, Israeli occupation forces raided the premises of St. Andrew’s Anglican/Episcopal Church in Ramallah, according to Rev.…

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers abducted a young Palestinian man in the at-Tour town, and attacked protesters in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem. The soldiers also…

On Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers abducted six Palestinians, including one woman, in occupied Jerusalem, and one Palestinian near Ramallah, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers abducted two…

GENEVA, Saturday, July 9, 2022 (WAFA) – In a letter sent to President Joe Biden on July 8th, World Council of Churches acting general secretary Rev. Ioan Sauca appealed for Biden’s attention…

On Friday night, Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinians near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers stopped the two young men, Mohammad…

The Israeli government filed papers to register a swath of land adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in a move which Palestinians say is a blatant attempt to take over and…

BETHLEHEM, Friday, June 24, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli colonizers Friday dawn hoisted the flag of Israel atop a mosque in Kisan village, east of Bethlehem city, according to local sources.…

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, June 7, 2022 (WAFA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates today condemned what it described as “the barbaric attack” perpetrated by extremist settlers on the Greek…

Israeli soldiers abducted four Palestinians on Sunday evening, detained, and assaulted many others near Bab Huta, one of the gates leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, in the…

On Sunday morning, dozens of illegal Israeli colonizers and police officers invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Palestine TV said the colonizers, approximately…

Israeli soldiers injured, Tuesday dawn, dozens of Palestinians during protests that took place after many illegal Israeli colonizers invaded a mosque and removed the Palestinian flags, in addition to destroying…

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers abducted at least ten Palestinians and injured 79, in several parts of occupied Jerusalem after illegal Israeli colonizers conducted provocative marches in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the…

Beginning at 7 am on Sunday, dozens of right-wing Israeli paramilitary settlers, led by the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir and accompanied by squadrons of Israeli soldiers, stormed the courtyards of…

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers demolished an under-construction mosque in the Arab ar-Ramadin” Bedouin community, isolated behind the illegal Annexation Wall near Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West…

Israeli soldiers abducted, Monday evening, a young man and assaulted many journalists and residents during a nonviolent procession against the escalating Israeli violations in and around the Ibrahimi Mosque, in…

On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers injured many Palestinians, including a child and a young woman, in Ramallah, Jenin, Hebron, and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. The army also abducted…

JERUSALEM, Monday, May 16, 2022 (WAFA) – The top church leaders in Jerusalem today condemned in a statement Israeli police brutality at St. Joseph’s hospital during the funeral of slain…

On Saturday morning, medical sources reported that a young Palestinian man who was shot and seriously injured on April 22nd after Israeli soldiers stormed the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque…

Israeli soldiers shot, Wednesday evening, a young Palestinian man near Bab al-Qattanin, one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media…

Israeli troops attacked Palestinian civilians near Nablus, shooting thirteen with rubber-coated steel bullets and one with live ammunition near dawn on Tuesday. The confrontation took place when Israeli soldiers invaded…

On Sunday, Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured a young Palestinian in a police post in Bab al-Amoud in occupied Jerusalem after alleging stabbing officers. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center…

On Wednesday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted the deputy director of the Islamic Waqf and Endowment Department in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers…

Israeli soldiers injured dozens of Palestinians in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and in the al-Qibli Mosque in the holy compound, in the occupied Palestinian capital Jerusalem, in the…

The Archbishop of Sebastia from the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Theodosios Attallah Hanna, saluted the Palestinian people in occupied Jerusalem for remaining steadfast in defending their city, holy sites,…

On Friday night after midnight, Israeli soldiers abducted two Palestinians from Bethlehem while returning from occupied Jerusalem after praying in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Media sources in Bethlehem said the soldiers…

On Saturday dawn, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a bus filled with worshipers heading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, wounding several Palestinians. Media sources said the Palestinians came in…

On Friday, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians, including a young woman and a child, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped a young woman while…

Israeli soldiers injured dozens of Palestinians, including a journalist, and attacked medics in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Dozens of soldiers and…

JAFFA, Friday, April 29, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Friday overnight vandalized a landmark mosque in the ancient city of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv in Israel, according to…

Israeli soldiers abducted Thursday evening, five Palestinians, including a child, a journalist, and a woman, in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers abducted a journalist,…

Israeli soldiers attacked, Thursday dawn, many Muslim worshipers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem after dozens of soldiers invaded its courtyards through the al-Magharba gate. The soldiers fired many…

Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians in Qalqilia and Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank on Thursday dawn. The soldiers invaded Qalqilia city before storming and ransacking homes and abducted Wisam…

Thousands of Orthodox Christians from around the world gathered in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Saturday for the ceremony of the Holy Fire in advance of the Orthodox…

Updated: The Israeli attacks against the worshipers in Al-Aqsa, in occupied Jerusalem, led to the injury of at least 67 Palestinians, including women and children, and a young man who…

On Friday night, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian with a live round and caused dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron,…

GENEVA, Friday, April 22, 2022 (WAFA) – The United Nations has voiced deep concern at the worsening security situation in occupied Palestine in the aftermath of Israel’s daily assaults over…