Wednesday is the final day of the fasting month of Ramadan in many countries. Muslims around the world are preparing to celebrate Eid al-Fitr – one of the holiest occasions in the Islamic calendar – while coping with coronavirus restrictions. Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites, declared Wednesday as …

The armed wing of Palestine’s Hamas resistance movement has staged a massive rocket launch against the occupied territories, with attacks expected to still grow in scale and extent. The Palestinian Information Center reported on Tuesday that the barrage targeted the cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon that lie to the north …

American political language does not have the capacity to address Palestine because it is disabled by white supremacy. Over the past few weeks, as the Israeli colonial forces escalated their brutal violence against the Palestinians of occupied Jerusalem, many hoped for some kind of a sharp reaction from the new …

Smoke rose above Alquds’s Temple Mount as a tree outside the Al Aqsa Mosque went up in flames on Monday. Meanwhile, Israeli police used flash-bangs to disperse a crowd of Palestinian worshippers on a major night of Ramadan. The pillar of fire and a large plume of smoke were clearly …

The latest violence comes on Islam’s holy night of Laylat al-Qadr, a day after Israeli police stormed Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque and injured 205 Palestinians. Dozens of Palestinians have been injured in the Israeli police crackdown on protesters outside the Old City of Jerusalem as tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers …

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas called for an urgent meeting on Thursday with other Palestinian leaders following the announcement of the peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh called the deal “treason,” saying it must be reversed. He called on other Arab states …

The Latest on the explosion in Beirut (all times local): 11:29 p.m Germany has dispatched dozens of search and rescue specialists to Lebanon to help in the race to find survivors trapped beneath rubble following Tuesday’s explosion in Beirut. About 50 staff of Germany’s THW civil protection organization flew out …

The US House of Representatives has passed an aid package valued at hundreds of millions of dollars and designated for assistance to the Israeli regime to develop its surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems. The lower house of the US Congress made the decision on Friday and the funding will mostly be allocated for …

A section of a mosque in the occupied West Bank was set on fire on Monday, and Palestinian officials accused Israeli settlers of being behind the attack. “The Land of Israel for the People of Israel,” read part of a slogan sprayed in Hebrew on the mosque’s wall, a reference …

Azerbaijan reported the deaths of one of its generals and five other officers on July 14, in the worst outbreak of fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in several years. The heating up of the usually frozen conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh follows the deaths of four …

A Palestinian prisoner has died of health complications he reportedly developed in Israeli jails as a result of “deliberate medical negligence.” The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission announced that Sa’adi al-Gharably – a resident of the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City – died on Monday afternoon in the infamous …

Palestinians are expected to turn out en masse in the ‘Day of Rage’ protests that have been called by various Palestinian factions against the occupationist agenda by the US and the Israeli regime for their homeland. The factions recently declared a “Day of Rage,” putting out a call for nationwide …

A senior official from the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas says armed resistance is a main tool to thwart the Israeli plan of annexing parts of the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley. “The Israeli annexation plans are a new crime added to the crimes of stealing Palestinian land …

The plan offered up to the United States, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union includes a “sovereign Palestinian state, independent, and demilitarised” with “minor modifications of borders where necessary”. Palestinians have submitted a response to the controversial US Mideast plan, which sees parts of the occupied West Bank …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has in a message offered his condolences over the demise of the former Leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, Ramadhan Abdullah Shallah. The Leader said “I extend my condolences on the passing away of Dr Ramadhan Abdullah to the dear …

The former head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement on Saturday died in the hospital where he was being treated. The group said Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, 62, succumbed to the disease. “We have been witnessing the struggle of the Islamic Jihad Movement since its establishment, and we remember his leadership …

Former US vice president told an online fundraiser by members of the Jewish community in the US that he was opposed to the move. US Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden has voiced his strongest criticism yet of Israel’s plan to annex the occupied West Bank. The former vice president was …

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the struggle to liberate Palestine is an obligation and an Islamic goal, adding “everyone must assist the Palestinian nation in this holy struggle”. “The struggle to liberate Palestine is Jihad in the way of God, and it is an obligation …

Nakba Day is observed on 15 May every year and commemorates the displacement of Palestinians when the Israeli state was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War. “Nakba” is the Arabic word for “catastrophe” or “disaster” and the occasion remembers the 700,000 Palestinians forced to flee as a …

The US secretary of state is in the Israeli-occupied territories to discuss Tel Aviv’s plan to annex Palestinian land under a controversial plan by US President Donald Trump, among other topics. Mike Pompeo arrived in Israel on Wednesday on his first foreign trip since Washington began enforcing a lockdown against …