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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized Israeli banks for financing the construction of settlements in the occupied West Bank, saying that the practice violates human rights.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voices support for the formation of a Kurdish state in the lead-up to a planned independence referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, which has sparked strong criticisms from the central government as well as Iraq’s neighbors.

A United Nations blacklist of companies operating in the occupied West Bank, the occupied old city of Quds (‘Jerusalem’) and the occupied Golan Heights includes some of the biggest firms in Israeli industry as well as some household names in the US.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner once hailed as her country’s Nelson Mandela has stood by as ethnically motivated violence and mass atrocities tear apart her country.

An 11th edition of al-Ghadir media festival is set to begin in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf as of September 14. The festival is hosted by Iraq’s al-Ghadir satellite channel.

Dozens of Palestinians in the southern occupied West Bank district of Beit Lahm ('Bethlehem') took to the streets on Tuesday and demanded that Israel return the bodies of slain Palestinians to their families

“The world today is the world of oppression, and the Islamic Republic has to maintain for itself the honor of speaking out against oppression anywhere in the world, whether in territories occupied by Zionists, or in Bahrain, or Yemen, or Myanmar”

Several Palestinian students choked on teargas on Monday morning during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces near al-Quds University, in Quds’ eastern town of Abu Dis.

Spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Qasemi says the Israeli policies in the region especially its policy of Iranophobia was clear, adding Israel actually breathes through Iranophobia.

Secretary General of the Global Assembly of Islamic Awakening, Ali Akbar Velayati in a statement condemned the ongoing atrocities against Muslims in Myanmar, calling them a conspiracy by the international Zionism.

Sara Netanyahu, the third wife of the Israeli regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been charged for fraud and breach of trust, while the premier faces two corruption cases of his own.

A Palestinian family was evicted from their home of 53 years in the occupied old city of al-Quds ('Jerusalem') neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah early Tuesday morning, culminating a protracted legal battle by which Israeli authorities claim the property belongs to Israeli settlers.

A Palestinian youth was injured after an Israeli settler hit the youth with his car Tuesday evening near the village of Husan west of Bethlehem, on Route 60, the occupied West Bank's main highway.

Famous Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan has been interrogated in London over suspicions of bribing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mango has the lion’s share when it comes to the population’s fruits preferences in summer in the Gaza Strip, as it is available in large quantities in the markets, both local and imported.

US President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York later this month, Haaretz reported Wednesday quoting local officials.

Raed al-Salihi died Sunday of his wounds sustained during a raid by Israeli military forces near a refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem on August 9.

The Palestinians in Europe Conference (PEC) expressed deep concern about the fallouts of the Africa-Israel summit slated to kick off by the end of September in Togo.

US-based organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has launched a campaign targeting Birthright Israel, a non-profit organization that sponsors and sends Jewish young adults on a free ten-day trip to Israel that “aims to strengthen Jewish identity, Jewish communities, and connection with Israel and its people,” according to the Birthright website.

Israeli authorities on Monday continued to hold the body of Raed al-Salhi, 22, a resident of the al-Duheisha refugee camp in the southern occupied West Bank, who succumbed to critical injuries in an Israeli hospital on Sunday, weeks after he was shot by Israeli forces during a violent detention raid in the camp

Netanyahu family lawyer Yossi Cohen told Israeli public radio on Sunday that Sara Netanyahu "took the test" that he described as "very tough" and "humiliating."

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri has rejected Israel’s claims that Iran is building factories to produce missiles in Lebanese territory, accusing the Israeli regime of carrying out “deception campaigns.”

Israeli author says Israel’s leadership works diligently and effectively to accelerate the elimination of the Zionist state, adding Israel’s enemies will not have to wait 25 years for the elimination of Zionism.

Dozens of Israeli forces have raided the headquarters of a Palestinian radio station in the occupied West Bank overnight and shut down the media outlet for six months.

At least 15 terminally ill Palestinian patients have died since the beginning of the year after Israel denied them permits to travel out of the besieged Gaza Strip for treatment, says a human rights group.

Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed on Thursday morning al-Aqsa Mosque—the third holiest site in Islam—via the Maghareba Gate

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei issues a message on the occasion of the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage season.

The troopers kidnapped the citizens from the provinces of al-Khalil, Beit Lahm ('Bethlehem'), old city of Quds ('Jerusalem') and Ramallah, adding that an active female member of the student Islamic Bloc at al-Khalil ('Hebron') University was among the detainees.

UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres arrived Wednesday morning in the besieged Gaza Strip after he visited Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories as part of his first regional itinerary.

The Arab League has said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent remarks about never leaving settlements show that the Tel Aviv regime does not seek peace.

A 2,000-year-old coin promoted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as proof of the Jewish people's connection to the Israeli-controlled West Bank has been found to be a souvenir reproduction.

Israeli authorities have extended the remand of Salah Hamouri for an additional three days for further interrogation.

Hundreds if not thousands of Palestinian Bedouins have been stripped of their Israeli citizenship in the Negev Desert, a report says as the regime pushes ahead with its policy of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories.

A large group of people have gathered outside Israel’s attorney general’s home demanding the immediate indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over corruption charges.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says economic issues are the country’s top priority, urging Iranian officials to make relentless efforts to solve problems facing people, including unemployment among the youth.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly plans to lift a year and a half ban on Knesset (parliament) members visiting the al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupeid old city of al-Quds ('Jerusalem'), which was the scene of intense confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinians last month.

Israel has reportedly established nearly 3,500 Israeli structures on privately-owned Palestinian lands in the West Bank, seeking to legalize them under a new law.

Israel has declared the full operational capability of its upgraded Elbit Systems Hermes-900 “Kochav” unmanned aerial vehicle on Wednesday after a series of tests.

The Sudanese-Palestinian Brothers Association has strongly denounced Sudanese investment minister Mubarak al-Fadel for calling for normalizing relations between his country and Israel.

Qatar has announced that its ambassador to Tehran will be returning to Iran around 20 months after he was recalled following demonstrations held in front of Saudi embassy in Tehran.

Director general of water department at Gaza municipality, Maher Salem, on Wednesday said that the lack of electricity has severely affected the municipality's basic facilities such as water wells and sewage treatment plants.

Days after residents in an isolated village in Beit Lahm ('Bethlehem') received stop-work orders for mobile homes being set up as a school -- structures for which locals insisted they had obtained the necessary permits -- Israeli forces reportedly raided the village Tuesday and seized the classrooms.

Palestinian officials have called on the UK to recognize an independent Palestinian state and press the Israeli regime to end its colonial activities in the occupied lands.

The Palestinian representative regretted that the upheavals in the Muslim community have kept Muslims from the Palestinian issue, adding such states as Saudi “would rather send fighters to Palestine instead of training terrorists.”

The Israeli regime has extended for several more days the detention of Sheikh Raed Salah, a cleric caught up in the developments ensuing from a crackdown on the al-Aqsa Mosque protests.

Iran-based Society in Defense of the Palestinian Nation (SDPN) staged a panel discussion on the role of mosques in promoting the regional resistance and Islamic awakening on Tuesday.

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on Monday highlighted the role of new generation in defending Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

Iran did not support the Palestinian people because of “Shia interests,” Major General Qassem Soleimani said in a ceremony to mark the global day of mosques in Tehran on Sunday.

Iran-based pro-Palestinian NGO, the Society in Defense of the Palestinian Nation (SDPN) will hold a panel discussion on the anniversary of an arson attack by Zionist Israelis on the holy al-Aqsa mosque in the occupied al-Quds (‘Jerusalem’) in 1969.

Aide to the Islamic Revolution Leader, Ali Akbar Velayati has met with director genral of the Iraqi Fazilat party, Abdulhossein Mousavi and its accompanying delegation.

Israeli forces have shot and fatally wounded a Palestinian teenager in the northern part of the occupied West Bank over an alleged stabbing attack, police and medics say.

Iran-based pro-Palestinian NGO, the Society in Defense of the Palestinian Nation (SDPN) has issued a statement marking the anniversary of an arson attack by Zionist Israelis on the al-Aqsa mosque, saying the sanctity of the mosque must be protected by all Muslims.

PA head Mahmoud Abbas has told Israeli opposition lawmakers on Sunday that he had proposed rolling back his month-old suspension of security coordination with Israel, but that it did not respond to the overture, the delegation said.

A week of Islamic resistance has been celebrated in Feiz University in Kashan, central Iran under an initiative by the Iranian representative office of the Iraqi Nujaba Islamic Resistance Movement.

Two Israeli settlers attacked, on Thursday, a Palestinian bus driver near the Bat Ayin settlement, in Gush Etzion settlement bloc, southwest of Beit Lahm ('Bethlehem').

Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday after an exceptional four-day opening made for the passage of Palestinian pilgrims traveling to perform the Muslim hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.

An official report released on Thursday warned that the Israeli schemes to be implemented in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem') threaten the Palestinian presence there.

A new report shows that more Israelis are moving abroad for an extended period of time compared with the number of the Israelis who return to the occupied territories.

Hundreds of Syrian militants have started evacuating from an enclave in Lebanon on the border with Syria after the defeat of Takfiri terrorists during a Hezbollah offensive.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed interest in partitioning Iraq and establishing an independent Kurdish state in the Arab country during a meeting with a delegation of 33 US Republican congressmen.