Jerusalem Mufti condemns marathon as Judaization Sheikh Mohamed Hussein, the Mufti of Jerusalem, warned of the political undertones of holding a marathon in the disputed city and accused Israeli occupation of using a sports event to further the Judaization of the occupied territories. “The marathon is one more attempt by Israeli occupation to erase the Arab identity of Jerusalem,” Hussein, who is also the imam of al-Aqsa Mosque, said in a statement. The Jerusalem Marathon, h

Occupation send a student from the village of prophet Samuel to the intelligence headquarter The occupation forces handed over The Maqdisi Student Bahaa Mohamed Barakat Salem to visit the occupation intelligence in Kalandia crossing. Our correspondent said that the occupation forces detained the bus of the Prophet Samuel, north-west of Jerusalem on the Jeep crossing en route to Ramallah for an hour under the pretext of examination and inspection and then delivered Barakat, a Media student in a second year in Al Quds Universi

Police on alert at Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem Israeli police were on high alert around the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday over fears that Jewish and Muslim groups were set to clash at the flashpoint site, a spokesperson said. The alert was raised after various Muslim groups posted calls online urging people to head to the compound to “protect” it after a Jewish group of rightwing extremists said they were planning to visit, police spokesperson L

Syria: tanks and troops descend on Homs as Red Cross tries to broker ceasefire A flood of military reinforcements has been a prelude to previous offensives by President Bashar Assad's regime, which has tried to use its overwhelming firepower to crush an opposition that has been bolstered by defecting soldiers and hardened by 11 months of street battles "The human loss is going to be huge if they retake Baba Amr," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, who heads the Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human R

Khatib: All construction activities around the Aqsa part of the alleged temple Deputy head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied land Kamal Al-Khatib warned that the escalating attempts to storm and seize the Aqsa Mosque are part of the Jewish black scheme to tear it down and build the alleged temple on its ruins. Khatib told Quds Press on Sunday that all construction activities happening beneath and around the Aqsa Mosque are part of this alleged temple’s premises and annexes. He warned that the Je

Vandals scrawl graffiti on Jerusalem Baptist church Vandals daubed “Death to Christianity” on a Jerusalem church on Monday in the second such attack in the holy city this month, police said. The words “Price Tag”, a slogan used by ultranationalist Jewish settlers, were also scrawled on the walls of the Baptist Narkis Street Congregation in a quiet residential neighborhood in Jewish west Jerusalem. “Officers are investigating a strong possibility of a (Jewish) nationalist

Syria's crisis is leading us to unlikely bedfellows When two car bombings killed nearly 50 people in the heart of the Syrian capital of Damascus just before Christmas, we in the West were quick to challenge claims made on state TV that the atrocities had been carried out by al-Qaeda. We were inclined to award more credibility to the Syrian rebels, who denied that the terror group was involved at all, and insisted that the attacks had been cynically staged by the government, perhaps as

Islamic Cooperation Condemns Israeli Forces’ Storming of Al-Aqsa Compound Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Sunday condemned the Israeli police storming of al-Haram al-Sharif compound in the Old City of Jerusalem and assaulting several worshippers, said a press release. Ihsanoglu considered the Israeli “serious escalation” as an assault against the entire Islamic Nation and a blatant violation of international law and resolutions. He held the Isr

Comprehensive follow-up of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem for Sunday, 19/2/2012 he occupation forces are converting identity cards confiscated from the Jerusalemites during their entering ro Al- Aqsa to the police and requests from young people to go to investigation station of the Old City. The occupation police stopped and arrested three journalists during covering the events in Al-Aqsa Mosque 09:55 – dozens of young Jerusalemites Succeed to open the door of Al-Majless and access to the Aqsa Mosque despit

Iranian naval ships enter Mediterranean via Suez Canal Two Iranian naval ships have sailed through Egypt's Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, in a move likely to be keenly watched by Israel. "Two Iranian ships crossed through the Suez Canal (on Thursday) following permission from the Egyptian armed forces," a source in the canal authority said on Friday. The destroyer and a supply ship could be on their way to the Syrian coast, the source added. Iran and Syria agreed to cooperate on n