INTERNATIONAL Editor’s note: The following is the full letter sent by senior Muslim leaders in Jerusalem to King Charles III, following UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s decision to review the location of the British embassy in Israel and consider moving it from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Dear His Majesty King Charles[…]
Vincent Nichols, archbishop of Westminster, writes to Liz Truss expressing ‘profound concern’ over potential relocation, a day after opposition parties rejected move. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, archbishop of Westminster, has called on Prime Minister Liz Truss to reconsider her intention to explore moving the UK’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.[…]
INTERNATIONAL Three UN experts have strongly criticised UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s repeated suggestion that she may relocate the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, Truss told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid that she[…]
The Palestinian Authority (PA) yesterday warned of the increasing Jewish-only settlement in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, Wafa news agency reported. This came during a meeting between PA Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, and Dutch Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Wopke Hoekstra, held in Ramallah. During the meeting, Al-Maliki briefed Hoekstra on the escalating Israeli violations and[…]
Israeli occupation forces since the early morning hours of Monday have continued demolishing and sabotaging the Al-Yusufiya Cemetery, one of the most important and prominent Islamic cemeteries in the occupied city of Jerusalem. Local sources said that the forces earlier today stormed the site again and continued the demolishing and[…]
Israeli jets struck targets in Gaza overnight after a series of rockets were fired into Israel from the besieged enclave. The Israeli army said it had struck underground infrastructure and rocket launchers belonging to Hamas, the group that controls the Gaza Strip. “Fighter jets and attack helicopters struck a number[…]
The UK government is maintaining a military presence at scores of facilities across the Middle East, according to research conducted by a London-based investigative journalism outlet. There are British forces personnel serving at 15 locations in Saudi Arabia and 16 in Oman, according to a report published by Declassified, which[…]
The Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council on Thursday condemned visits that were recently carried out by pro-normalisation groups to Al-Aqsa mosque. The visits were under the protection of Israeli police and accompanied by officials from the Israeli Foreign Ministry. In the wake of its 88th session, the council’s Chairman Muhammad Hussein[…]
An Israeli court ruled to demolish a newly-constructed Palestinian school located in the centre of the West Bank. Anadolu Agency quoted anti-settlement activist Abdullah Abu Rahma stating that the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday rejected the injunctive relief submitted in favour of the Ras El-Teen School in eastern Ramallah. Abu[…]
The Palestinian Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission have confirmed that Israeli forces demolished 313 homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem during the first half of this year. The commission disclosed in a report that 64 per cent of the demolitions took place in East Jerusalem, Nablus and[…]
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