Turkish, Iranian leaders discuss Israeli attacks on Palestine
President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) shakes hands with President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani (L) on February 14, 2019 [TURKISH PRESIDENCY / MURAT CETINMUHURDAR / HANDOUT/Anadolu Agency] May 16, 2021 at 3:55 pm
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Sunday discussed ongoing Israel s attacks on Palestine on phone, reports
Anadolu Agency.
According to a statement by Turkey s Directorate of Communications, Erdogan told Rouhani that Turkey will continue to take a serious stand against Israeli strikes targeting Palestine.
The global community, Erdogan said, should send Israel a strong message of deterrence in the face of reckless attacks.
Israel and its illegal settlers demonstrate the reality and brutality of the occupation May 10, 2021 at 10:24 am | Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
Israeli forces take a Palestinian woman into custody during a demonstration at Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood after Israeli government s plan to force some Palestinian families out of their homes in East Jerusalem on May 05, 2021 [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu Agency] May 10, 2021 at 10:24 am
Violence has become a permanent feature of Ramadan for the people of occupied Palestine. The first day of the fasting month this year began with the Israeli army breaking locks and cutting the wires to the loudspeakers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to silence the evening calls to prayer. In yet another provocative move, Israel allowed only 10,000 Palestinians to enter Jerusalem from the West Bank.
Palestine will not be the same after another Aqsa Intifada May 10, 2021 at 3:26 pm | Published in: Article, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, Palestine
Israeli police intervene in Palestinians, who were standing guard to prevent fanatic Jews to raid the Masjid al-Aqsa Compound, in East Jerusalem on May 10, 2021 [Muath Khatib/Anadolu Agency] May 10, 2021 at 3:26 pm
Coinciding with the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba (Catastrophe) and the theft of Palestine, the Zionist state of Israel continues to usurp what is left of the historic land and erase the Islamic and Arab identity of Jerusalem by Judaising it. In an effort to unify West and East Jerusalem and erase the Arab presence in the latter, the occupation authorities have resorted to their tried and tested ethnic cleansing, which Israel has carried out since the creation of the usurper state in 1948.
Middle East Near You The Guardian s support for creation of Israel was one of its worst errors in 200 years
Palestinians participate in a march on November 2, 2017, in the centre of the West Bank city of Ramallah to protest the 100th anniversary of Britain s Balfour Declaration [ABBAS MOMANI/AFP via Getty Images] May 10, 2021 at 2:37 pm
In a remarkable admission, the
Guardian has ranked its support for the Balfour Declaration promising a homeland for the Jewish people as one of its worst errors of judgment over 200 years. The British newspaper made its startling announcement on Friday. Whatever else can be said, Israel today is not the country the
May 5, 2021 at 5:45 pm
Jerusalemites really are the salt of the earth. Their resilience resembles the robust trees standing at the Damascus Gate to the Old City, as they shout fiercely in front of the houses of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in protest against the most pernicious occupation on the planet, bare-chested and holding their heads high with hearts full of certainty about their legitimate rights.
The month of Ramadan has always been associated with heroic events in the minds of the indigenous Palestinians in Jerusalem. That prompted a group of young people in the occupied city to reorient the popular resistance compass and rekindle the flame of the Palestinian cause in a series of confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces. The video footage, which has gone viral, has become the Palestinians favourite Ramadan show.