The Israeli Municipality of Jerusalem demolished one of the oldest Muslim graveyards in the occupied holy city on Sunday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The head of the Committee for the Preservation of […]
Palestinian officials condemned on Saturday the intention of American Zionist groups to hold a ceremony at the Mammilla cemetery in West Jerusalem, considering it a desecration of the Islamic graveyard and a flagrant violation of […]
Israeli occupation forces today attacked hundreds of Palestinian Muslim worshippers who gathered at the Al-Haram al-Ibrahimi (Ibrahimi Mosque) in Hebron (Al-Khalil), south of the occupied West Bank, in protest of Israeli threats to take over […]
Israeli occupation forces last night assaulted and dispersed dozens of Palestinian nonviolent protesters while holding a sit-in in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied Jerusalem, against an imminent threat of eviction from their homes […]
A Palestinian family from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan embarked last night on emptying their home after the Israeli municipality informed them that the home will be demolished soon for lack on an Israeli-issued […]
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry yesterday called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) “to protect all Palestinian archaeological and religious sites from Israeli violations, attacks, and falsifications.” In an official statement, the […]
Israeli occupation authorities have taken the measurements of the Dome of the Rock while Jewish settlers are calling for its demolition, Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar Al-Kiswani announced on Friday. Al-Kiswani described what is […]
The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem today infringed on the centuries-old al-Yousifieh Islamic cemetery in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Mustafa Abu Zahra, a caretaker of the Islamic cemeteries in […]
The Israeli municipality in West Jerusalem has issued demolition notices against 13 inhabited Palestinian houses in Silwan, a neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported today. Fakhri Abu Diab, a member […]
An Israeli court yesterday ordered that Al-Qa’qa’ Mosque, in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, be demolished because it was built without planning permission, Anadolu reported. The court gave Palestinians 21 days to challenge the […]
Israeli soldiers installed loudspeakers over the northern and western walls of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday. The speaker system allows Israeli forces to further disturb and violate Muslim worshippers in […]
The Jerusalem District court yesterday ordered the eviction of Nasser Rajabi and his family from their home in the Batan Al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Centre, which monitors […]
When the Palestinian actor Mohammed Bakri made a documentary about Jenin in 2002 – filming immediately after the Israeli army had completed rampaging through the West Bank city, leaving death and destruction in its wake […]
Israeli bulldozers demolished a residential building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabber Tuesday morning, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israeli police escorted three bulldozers into the al-Sal‘a neighborhood and cordoned off […]
While welcoming a protest letter signed by European diplomats against Israel’s plans to commence construction in an East Jerusalem area known as E1, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) urged Europe to turn its words into […]
Hundreds of Palestinian residents of the city of Yafa organized a protest against the Israeli demolition of a historic Islamic cemetery, Anadolu Agency reported. Protestors performed the Friday prayer and started a march condemning the Israeli decision […]
A Palestinian – whose job it is to wake Muslims up for the pre-dawn meal during the fasting month of Ramadan – has been threatened with arrest by Israeli security forces, Wafa news agency has reported. […]
“They will run and not grow weary,” is a quote from the Bible (Isaiah, 40:41) that adorns the homepage of Kairos Palestine. This important document, which parallels a similar initiative emanating from South Africa during the […]
An Israeli plan to run a cable car over Jerusalem to the walls of the Old City has angered Palestinians who say it would erase their heritage in areas they seek for a future state, Reuters reports. […]
UNESCO’s Executive Board approved at its 207th session a resolution calling on Israel to stop its violations and unilateral actions against historic sites in Jerusalem. The decision was made by the international organization during its […]
On Thursday, Israeli authorities attempted to prevent staff of the Al-Aqsa Construction Committee from carrying out renovation of Al-Silsila Gate of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Felesteen.ps reported. The construction staff planned to repair cracks in the walls of […]
Two US envoys attended a controversial archaeological event organized by a Jewish settler-linked group in east Jerusalem on Sunday, their latest move breaking with precedent and angering Palestinians. White House adviser Jason Greenblatt and US ambassador […]
Newly-appointed Israeli transportation minister Bezalel Smotrich has declared that one of his main objectives is to ‘Judaize the Galilee’, in light of the region’s number of Palestinian citizens. In an interview with Israel Hayom, the notorious right-wing nationalist also vowed […]
The Judaization of Jerusalem. It used to work under cover of darkness, at least in the mainstream media, but now it’s out in the open with official recognition of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem from the […]
On this seventy-first annual commemoration of Palestine’s Jewish-state Nakba, let’s resolve not to continue to oversimplify things. Whether you believe the American rabbi and historian Arthur Hertzberg’s assessment of the Zionist idea as “unprecedented … an […]
The Israeli municipality of Jerusalem delivered demolition notices to residential structures in the Issawiya neighborhood yesterday. Muhammad Abu Al-Hummus, a member of a local follow-up committee, said that joint teams from the Israeli municipality and […]
In an interview with the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, prominent Israeli historian Benny Morris predicted a grim future for his country. “This place will deteriorate into a Middle Eastern state with an Arab majority,” he said referring to […]
In the ongoing struggle to reclaim their homeland, the Palestinian Authority has always seen occupied East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state, but the situation on the ground is rapidly changing as […]
Israel’s Internal Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said yesterday that Jewish prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound “may be planned in the future”. Erdan made the remarks on Ben Caspit and Aryeh Eldad’s 103FM […]
Jewish settlers spread adhesive substance to the door of the Sheikh Makki Mosque in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, on Monday. Sources told Ma’an that those responsible for opening and closing the mosque were […]
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