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Senior Israel cabinet members have started convening their weekly meetings in a secure underground bunker located in Jerusalem al-Quds.

Dmitry Feoktistov, the deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department on New Challenges and Threats in a press conference said that the attempts by the United States to declare Iran as the main global threat are futile.

An Arab analyst believes that the 12 twelve conditions stated by America’s Pompeo is literally in favor for Israel to expand its dominance over the entire region.

Pompeo revealed what is considered to be the new US strategy toward Iran after Washington's unilateral exit from the nuclear deal despite strong opposition from its EU allies.

Danish interior minister known for her strong anti-immigration views on Monday called for Muslims to take time off work during the fasting period of Ramadan, saying the practice can be "dangerous for all of us".

The Israeli regime has summoned the ambassadors of Spain, Slovenia and Belgium over their countries’ votes at the United Nations in favor of an international probe into the latest massacre of dozens of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

A member of Congress has urged the US to recognize Syria’s Golan Heights as an Israeli territory after Washington's relocation of its embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds last week.

Palestine has condemned the relocation of the Paraguayan embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds, calling on the Arab world to boycott the countries that follow America’s policy in this regard.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, underlining that Iran's presence in Syria is at the request of Syrian government, said those who are in Syria without the authorization from the Damascus government, should leave the country.

Iranian official Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Iraqi leadership and nation will remain Iran’s strategic ally, following Iraq’s first national elections since the country declared complete victory over ISIL.

A senior diplomat says Damascus views any Israeli attack on Syria an act of "aggression" and will confront it, following Zionist entity's raids under the pretext of targeting Iranian forces.

Israel is planning to build four new settlement buildings in the occupied territories.

Nearly 300 Israeli settlers have stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Israeli-occupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds amid frequent acts of violence committed by Israeli forces and settlers against the Palestinian people.

UAE diplomats secretly wine and dine with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while publicly offering Iftar to Palestinians. Netanyahu's impromptu dinner with a UAE envoy casts light on under the table cooperation between the Tel Aviv regime and Arab Persian Gulf nations.

A fifth explosion has rocked the US state of Texas this month, injuring one man on Tuesday, as police hunt for a suspected serial bomber.

The cartoonist, Dieter Hanitsh, defended his work, saying he has the right to criticise Netanyahu's policies. The cartoon was published a day after Israeli troops shot dead dozens of Palestinians during Nakba protests on the Gaza-Israel border.

The extraordinary meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Palestine was held in Istanbul on Friday in the absence of Saudi King Salman, while Jordan's king looked undeterred to show narrowing differences with Qatar, Turkey and Iran and distancing his country from Saudi, UAE, Bahraini policy of rapprochement with Israel.

The final statement of the 7th extraordinary session of OIC has stressed that the Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine, reaffirming the member states’ opposition to US embassy move to Jerusalem.

Iran’s president has said that the Israeli occupation is the biggest threat against the Islamic world, adding the new US administration is also the biggest threat for the world order, peace, and stability.

Special Aide to Iranian Parliament Speaker for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that time is not in favor of the Zionist regime, adding, “under such circumstances, resistance of Palestinian people will not allow the survival of US Embassy in al-Quds (Jerusalem).”

An official from the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has described the latest round of sanctions by the United States and a number of its Persian Gulf Arab allies against the leadership of the group as “worthless,” stating that the measures will have no effect on the country’s political structure, mainly the election of the parliament speaker and future government formation.

Various walks of life across the country staged a massive rally on May 18 after Friday prayers to condemn Zionist regime’s brutal crimes committed against Palestinian people on “Nakba Day” as well as US Embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds.

Provisional Friday Prayers Leaders Hojjatoleslam Sedighi urged Iran’s nuclear negotiators to take necessary guarantees from European countries after US pullout from JCPOA and said, “however, government should take tough and stringent measures while in talks with the European side.”

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on Muslim countries and other world nations to revise their ties with the US and sever all their relations with Israel in response to their hostile policies against Palestine.

Turkey and Israel expelled each other’s senior diplomats on Tuesday in a dispute over the killing by Israeli forces of 60 Palestinians a day earlier during protests on the Gaza border.

The Israeli minister of military affairs has lashed out at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for its condemnation of the recent Gaza carnage, saying Tel Aviv and the US should immediately withdraw from the Geneva-based body.

Dr. Zahra Mostafavi said: "The day the US embassy was transferred to Jerusalem, was another day on the anniversary of the Nakba Day, and the formation of a Zionist cancer gland in Palestine.

In a statement published on Wednesday, Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations highlighted the “nonsensical allegations” of the United States against Iran as tool for distracting the world from brutal bloodshed in Gaza.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Wed. that all countries should be sensitive about any “illegal” intervention in region.

Iranian National Committee of Humanitarian Law has denounced the killing of tens of civilians, including children and teenagers, and injury of thousands by armed Israeli forces in Gaza Strip.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has filed a lawsuit with an Israeli court to prevent the planned deportation of an activist over his alleged support for a pro-Palestine boycott campaign against the Tel Aviv regime.

The United States, in a joint action with its Persian Gulf Arab allies, has imposed a new round of “terrorism-related” sanctions on the leadership of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, citing the group's involvement with Iran.

Israeli fighter planes have carried out bombing raids on several locations in northern Gaza, just days after the Tel Aviv regime massacres over 60 people there.

Dr. Zahra Mostafavi Secretary-General of Society for the defense of Palestinian People paid a visist to the thirty-sixth Fajr Film Festival and met with several domestic and foreign artists.

Ali Larijani, the Speaker of Iran’s Parliament, has advised the US officials not to have any misconception on Palestine, Jerusalem, or the Islamic Resistance Axis.

Parliament Speaker’s Special Aide for International Affairs warned that the hasty move and the alleged relocation of US embassy to al-Quds (Jerusalem) will cost dearly for the United States and initiators of this plan.

Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif said on Monday that it is a day of great shame that while Israeli regime is massacring Palestinians, Trump is celebrating embassy move and Arab collaborators divert attentions.

Condemning the “savage killing” of Palestinian protesters by Israeli police, Bahram Ghasemi, the Spokesman of Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urged the international community to take an immediate action on it.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire amid mass protests near the Gaza border has reached 37, making it the deadliest day since a 2014 war with Israel.

The Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) are bracing for an expected 100,000 protesters at the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Occupied territories on the same day the US fulfills its controversial promise to recognize the disputed city of al-Quds as Israel’s capital by moving its embassy there from Tel Aviv.

On the eve of arrival of 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, the day Palestine was officially occupied and Israel dictated statehood, Hamas and Islamic Jihad envoys in Tehran attended a meeting convened by the Society for the defense of Palestinian people titled as “Resistance to Freedom”.

US President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, has arrived in Jerusalem al-Quds to open the new US embassy in Israel, a controversial move that is guaranteed to stir violence in the occupied Palestinian lands.

More than a thousand of Israeli settlers have stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Israeli-occupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds amid frequent acts of violence committed by Israeli forces and settlers against the Palestinian people.

A senior Iranian official says the United States is the main organizer of terrorist groups and the creator of instability and insecurity in the Middle East.

Leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has left the Gaza Strip for talks with Egyptian authorities ahead of planned protests against the official inauguration of the US embassy in the occupied Palestinians city of Jerusalem al-Quds.

Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz has told Sputnik that he considers Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Kozhin's remark that there were no negotiations on the supply of S-300 surface-to-air missile systems to Syria to be a demonstration of Moscow's respect toward Tel Aviv.

The Israeli air force conducted airstrikes on Syria for several hours on May 10, claiming that they were attacking Iranian forces purportedly stationed in Syria. Damascus has denied the allegations and slammed the attack, which claimed lives of several servicemen.

Zimbabwean government has reiterated its support for a sovereign Palestinian state against an onslaught the country is facing from Israel with the support of the Americans.

Iraqis are heading to polls on Saturday in the first parliamentary elections since defeating ISIL terrorist group amid tightened security.

Motasem Ahmed Dalloul with the Middle East Monitor was hit in the abdomen by a live round east of Gaza City on Friday while covering a protest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Watchdog called for an immediate inquiry into the incident.

The Syrian ambassador to China says Damascus will not "hesitate" to avenge Israeli attacks, stressing the nation's right to self-defense against any act of aggression.

Bahrain has expressed support for Israel after Tel Aviv hit dozens of military targets in Syria amid Syrian army advances against Takfiri terrorists and other foreign-backed militants.

Iran has condemned Israel's recent attack on Syria, calling it an attempt by the main supporter of Syrian terrorist groups to retaliate their many defeats against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Israeli forces have once more opened fire on Palestinians taking part in anti-occupation protests along the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and occupied territories, leaving a man dead and at least 170 others wounded.

President Donald Trump will address the opening ceremony of US embassy in the occupied city of Jerusalem al-Quds by video on Monday, according to a senior official.

The chief inspector of the UN nuclear agency has stepped down unexpectedly, a few days after US President Donald Trump declared that Washington withdrew from the 2015 landmark nuclear deal with Iran.

Russia's defence ministry Sergey Shoygu said on Thursday that Syria had shot down more than half of the missiles fired at it overnight by Israel, RIA news agency reported.

In reaction to Trump's decision on Iran nuclear deal, There have been a wide variety of preparations in Germany and many German companies have been building a fence around their Iran business.

Omar Shakir, a US citizen and the Israel and Palestine Director of Human Watch group, is forced out of occupied territories under allegations of his involvement with the BDS group, Shakir denies the allegations.

Syrian air defense system thwarted Israeli missile attacks on al-Baath in Quneitra province on Wednesday evening, meanwhile Syria fired several rockets towards Israel in retaliation.