Israel carried out its first air strikes on the Gaza Strip in months early Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave as tensions soar after a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem holy site. Warning sirens sounded in southern Israel Monday night after the rocket was fired from the enclave controlled […]
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Users accuse Facebook, Instagram of bias by censoring Palestinian content
Hundreds of users of social media networks have accused Instagram and Facebook of removing content and accounts reporting on violence in the Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem – a part of the Palestinian territories under international law, the Arab News reported. One of the videos that was deleted from the story […]
OIC urges Palestinians’ protection, slams Israel’s actions in Jerusalem
Ambassadors of member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) unequivocally condemned the recent use of brutal force by the Israeli forces against Palestinians in East Jerusalem, and vowed to draw world community’s attention to the atrocities. At an urgent meeting held in New York following attacks against worshippers around the Al-Aqsa Mosque […]
UN Security Council meets on Jerusalem but holds off on statement
The UN Security Council held an urgent meeting on the unrest in Jerusalem but issued no immediate statement, with diplomats saying the United States believed public comments would be counterproductive. The negotiations among the 15 nations on the Security Council were over a text that could be watered down from an initial draft proposed […]
Hundreds hurt in new Jerusalem clashes between Israelis, Palestinians
Jerusalem: Hundreds were wounded in new clashes Monday between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in Jerusalem as a planned march marking Israel’s 1967 takeover of the holy city threatened to further inflame tensions. Palestinians hurled projectiles at Israeli officers in riot gear who fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas, an AFP correspondent […]
Pakistan condemns Israel’s attack on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned the attack on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, third holiest in Islam, in Jerusalem by the Israeli forces who fired rubber bullets and stun grenades amid growing anger over the eviction of Palestinians from their homes on land claimed by Jewish settlers. “We pray for speedy recovery of injured, reiterate our […]
Iran urges UN to condemn Israel’s Jerusalem ‘war crime’
Iran called on the United Nations Saturday to condemn a bloody Israeli police action in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in annexed east Jerusalem, saying it amounted to a “war crime”. More than 160 people were wounded late Friday in clashes with Israeli police at Islam’s third-holiest site, as stones, bottles and fireworks were hurled at […]
Reema Khan shares her trip to Jerusalem on Instagram
Reema Khan, a veteran Pakistani actress visited Jerusalem last month and shared details of her trip on social media. Jerusalem is considered to be the third holiest place in the world for Muslims. She revealed her trip on Instagram today and posted photos of her visit to Masjid Al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock. […]
The model’s nude pose above Jerusalem shrine has infuriated people
JERUSALEM: A Belgian model has outraged the rabbi of Jerusalem’s Western Wall with a picture of her posing naked on a rooftop overlooking the Jewish shrine. The picture, published in Belgian newspaper HLN, shows 26-year-old Marisa Papen leaning back nude on a lounger, face raised to the sun. Behind and below her worshippers can be seen […]
Einstein’s letter fetches $100,000 at Jerusalem auction
JERUSALEM: A letter penned by legendary physicist Albert Einstein discussing one of his groundbreaking theories was sold in Jerusalem on Tuesday for over $100,000 as part of trove of documents that went under the hammer. The handwritten missive, sent in 1928 by Einstein from Berlin to a mathematician about the formalisation of the “Third Stage […]