At least 90 Palestinians were injured last night as Israeli occupation forces clamped down on thousands of worshipers attending or in their way to attend prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC). Clashes erupted with the Israeli occupation forces at several locations across the Old City of Jerusalem and in the alleys leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as in

The Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared that under the directions of President of the republic Kais Saied, Tunisia, as an Arab member of the UN Security Council, asked in coordination with the Palestinian side and backed by China, the current President of the Council, Norway, Ireland, Vietnam, Saint Vincent, The Grenadines and Niger, the holding of a UN Security Council session on May 10, 2021. This session will

The recent developments in the occupied city of Jerusalem, including the dozens of injuries among Palestinians that were caused by Israeli gunfire, continue to hit the front pages of the three Arabic Palestinian dailies on Sunday. Al-Hayat al-Jadida, al-Ayyam and al-Quds said that dozens of Palestinian worshippers were injured during the clashes that erupted with the Israeli police in al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli police officers also arrested several worshipers and denied

Several prominent US lawmakers have spoken out against Israel over the potential evictions of several Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem in favor of hardcore settler groups. “The United States must speak out strongly against the violence by government-allied Israeli extremists in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and make clear that the evictions of Palestinian families must not go forward,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote in

A number of Arab and international celebrities have expressed solidarity and support for the people of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem who are facing a potential threat of eviction by the Israeli occupation authorities. English rock musician Roger Waters, best known as bass player, co-lead vocalist, lyricist and principal songwriter in the rock band Pink Floyd, described Israel as “an apartheid state” in a video he posted on his

Palestinian political prisoner and veteran in Israeli detention Abbas al-Sayyid completes today 19 years in Israeli occupation’s prisons, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). Al-Sayyid, 56 years old, who comes from the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, was arrested by the Israeli occupation authorities on this day in 2002, and was served 35 life sentences and an additional 150 years in prison for his activism in the

Minister of Health Mai Alkaila said today that 314 new COVID-19 infections, seven deaths and 810 recoveries were registered in Palestine during the past 24 hours. In her daily report on the coronavirus pandemic, Alkaila said three deaths were reported in the West Bank and four others in the Gaza Strip. She said no updates were available from occupied Jerusalem. In the West Bank, 172 coronavirus tests came out positive,

Israeli forces today shot and injured a Palestinian east of Khan Younes city in the southern besieged Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent. He reported medics as confirming that Israeli troops stationed along Gaza’s eastern border fence opened fire towards a group of Palestinians rallying, east of Khuza‘a town, in solidarity with Jerusalemite Palestinians in the face of bloody Israeli police and settler attacks as well as forced expulsions in

President Mahmoud Abbas today discussed with Jordan’s King Abdullah II the simmering tensions in the occupied city of Jerusalem. They discussed in a phone call the latest developments on the Palestinian arena, with particular focus on the Israeli police and settler attacks against Palestinian worshippers and restrictions on the latter’s access to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in addition to the forced expulsions of Palestinian families from their houses in Sheikh Jarrah

Switzerland today condemned the expulsions of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah and other parts of East Jerusalem as in violation of international law. The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) stated in a press statement that it “is very concerned about the escalation of violence in Jerusalem, particularly on the Haram al-Sharif and in Sheikh Jarrah” as it called “restraint at this sensitive time”. “The FDFA calls again on