Qatar News Agency | Article Date: 14:31 2011/08/14 | Article ID: 0044 Jeddah, August 14 (QNA) – Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has expressed strong condemnation of the Isra…
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Russia slams Israeli decision to build new housing units in O. Jerusalem
[ 13/08/2011 - 09:29 AM ] MOSCOW, (PIC)– Russia criticized on Friday the Israeli government’s endorsement of building 1600 new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem, warning that it would lead to worsening the already “explosive Middle E…
US Congressional candidate believes Israel aims to destroy al-Aqsa Mosque
Sat Aug 13, 2011 4:28PM GMT A former US congressional candidate believes that Israel’s ultimate objective in constructing new settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories is to destroy al-Aqsa Mosque. “I have believed for a long time tha…
Egyptian FM: Building new housing units in OJ “big crime”
[ 13/08/2011 - 12:16 PM ] CAIRO, (PIC)– Egyptian foreign minister Mohammed Kamel Amr said that what Israel was doing in occupied Jerusalem was provoking the feelings not only of Palestinians but of all Arabs and Muslims. He said, in a press state…
Israeli police arrest four Jerusalemite minors
[ 10/08/2011 - 02:32 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Israeli police forces stormed the Bustan suburb in Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem at dawn Wednesday and arrested four minors, local sources said. They said that the policemen detained two br…
Israel Occupation Authority flattens Palestinian home in occupied Jerusalem
[ 11/08/2011 - 01:36 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) razed the home of Majed Al-Rajabi in Baka’a area to the southwest of occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday due to the usual pretext of lack of construction pe…
Israel approves 1,600 Jerusalem settler homes
█▌ Important – Israel does not seek peace nor an end to stop the building of settlements, and thus ethnic cleansing of Palestine. On Aug 30, 2010 (this was before the peacetalks in that year, Netanyahu vowed to make NO CONCESSIONS on eretz …
Street shut down for Jewish holiday, severe congestion
Wednesday, 10 August, 2011 | 04:05 Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Israeli forces closed off the northern entrance of Wadi Hilweh district of Silwan this evening, citing the anniversary of the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem’s…
Sabri condemns settlers’ desecration of Aqsa Mosque
[ 09/08/2011 - 01:40 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, the head of the higher Islamic authority in occupied Jerusalem, has denounced the Jewish settlers’ desecration of the Aqsa Mosque in the holy month of Ramadan. He said in…
Turkey condemns new Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem
09 August 2011, Tuesday / TODAYSZAMAN.COM, East Jerusalem (Photo:AA) Turkey condemned on Tuesday an Israeli decision to authorize the construction of more than 900 apartments in East Jerusalem, joining European and Palestinian denunciation of the Israe…
Woman threatened with exile, children held in vendetta against Jerusalem family
[ 09/08/2011 - 11:11 AM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– In an apparent vendetta against Jerusalem native Nasser Abu Sanad, the Israeli occupation authorities have arrested four of his sons and are pursuing banishing his wife to Jordan. His sons, ran…
Silwan Targeted – video
AIC | Aug 9, 2011 Silwan is a Palestinian village in occupied East Jerusalem. Over 55,000 Palestinians live in Silwan, 50 percent of whom are under the age of 18. In recent years, Jewish-Israeli settlers have gradually moved into the neighborhood,…
Top Israeli archaeologists contest Jewish ties to Jerusalem
[ 08/08/2011 - 05:43 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Top Israeli archaeologist Israel Finkelstein has denied the existence of Jewish roots in the city of Jerusalem, contrary to Israel’s claims that have prompted continued Judaization of the cit…
Palestinian residents of Silwan suffer under the City of David settlement “improvement” project – in pictures
Monday, 8 August, 2011 | 17:09 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwan, Jerusalem Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) — Israeli developers overseeing the “Improvement of the City of David settlement ” project in Silwan are engaging i…
Jewish settlers storm the Aqsa Mosque
[ 08/08/2011 - 12:22 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Tension is running high in the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem after Jewish settlers stormed and roamed the plazas of the holy site at the early morning hours on Monday. The Aqsa guards …