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United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov warned on Monday that a solution was needed by Friday to the al-Aqsa mosque crisis, which he said threatens to have "potential catastrophic costs well beyond the walls of the Old City."

Iranian expert in regional affairs said the case of the ISIS terror group provided Israel with an opportunity to advance their expansionist policies but it faced the regional resistance. "The Palestinian issue serves as the symbol of power of the Muslim community in countering the world arrogance."

For the eighth consecutive day since Israeli authorities installed increased security measures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, hundreds of Muslim worshipers on performed prayers outside of the compound gates in protest on Sunday.

Dozens of Israeli settlers, heavily protected by Israeli police, stormed on Monday morning al-Aqsa Mosque, while tension is still running high in occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem').

Several Iranian experts in regional affairs believe that the recent Israeli atrocities in Israel were not surprising adding however that Israel had become more emboldened owing to the recent upheavals in the Muslim community.

Spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Qasemi says the foreign ministry has a clear position over the recent Israeli repression of the Palestinians in the occupied al-Quds (‘Jerusalem’).

Director of al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani said the Palestinian source of jurisprudence has rejected any change to the status of the al-Aqsa mosque and will keep the position.

A press conference on the latest developments in the al-Aqasa mosque will be staged in the office of the Qods News Agency (Qodsna) in Tehran on Monday.

Tel Aviv deploys more troops to the occupied West Bank as tensions escalate between Israelis and Palestinians over the regime’s imposition of restrictive measures on the entry of worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in al-Quds ('Jerusalem').

Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has warned that Israel’s flagrant attack on the Aqsa Mosque and its war on Jerusalem “will stir up the embers under the ashes and reignite the intifada (uprising).”

Thousands of people staged rallies in Yemen and Indonesia on Friday to condemn the recent Israeli atrocities in the al-Aqsa mosque.

Prominent Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip have urged the Palestinian citizens in the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem') to storm Israeli security gates and force their way into the Aqsa Mosque compound.

At least 42 Palestinians were injured on Thursday evening when Israeli occupation forces quelled scores of sit-inners near al-Asbat gate of al-Aqsa Mosque

Palestinians continue holding demonstrations outside the al-Aqsa Mosque compound to voice their outrage at Israel’s latest move to impose new restrictive measures at the holy site.

Aide to the Syrian Intelligence Minister, Ali Abdullah Ahmad says not all Kurdish parties in the Iraqi Kurdistan approve an independence election sought by Mesut Barzani.

Israeli prison troopers on Tuesday stormed one of the Negev prison’s sections, assaulted prisoners and ransacked their cells before transferring them to other sections

An Israeli trooper, who is serving a lenient jail term for fatally shooting a disarmed and severely-wounded Palestinian, is to be released from prison and placed under house arrest ahead of a ruling on his appeal later this month.

An urgent complaint was presented by the London-based Palestinian Return Center (PRC) to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, calling for urgent intervention on Israel’s closure of holy al-Aqsa Mosque and violations of the freedom of worship.

The armed wings of the Palestinian factions in Gaza warned on Tuesday of serious consequences that would ignite the region if Israel did not backtrack on its latest decisions against al-Aqsa Mosque.

Dozens of Israeli troopers invaded, on Tuesday morning, the Al-Makassed Hospital, in the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem'), and surrounded the Intensive Care Unit, to abduct a seriously wounded Palestinian teenage boy.

Israeli forces raided the family home of 29-year-old Rafat Hirbawi -- who was shot dead by Israeli troopers earlier on Tuesday after allegedly carrying out a vehicular attack -- in the occupied city of al-Khalil ('Hebron') in the southern West Bank.

The Iranian based Society in Defense of the Palestinian People (SDPN) in a statement on Tuesday strongly condemned the Israeli constraints on the Muslim arrivals into the sacred al-Aqsa mosque in the occupied al-Quds in Palestine.

Prominent religious figures in occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem') have called for rejecting and boycotting the Israeli measures that created a new status quo at the Aqsa Mosque, especially the metal detectors (security archways) deployed at its entrances.

Members of the Islamic Awqaf Department and hundreds of Muslim worshipers have refused, for the second consecutive day, to enter al-Aqsa Mosque—the third holiest site in Islam—via metal detectors set up by the Israeli occupation forces.

The controversial bill was given the green light on Sunday; after full approval it will make it difficult for an Israeli prime minister to return any part of land to Palestinians as part of a future peace deal.

A delegation of Islamic Jihad members arrived in Cairo on Friday evening, led by the movement’s Secretary-General Ramadan Shallah and his deputy Ziad al-Nakhala.

The Muslim world has denounced Israel’s recent move to shut down the al-Aqsa Mosque after a deadly shooting at the holy mosque’s compound in the Old City of occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem').

A growing number of Israeli firms promote the regime’s military tourism in the occupied territories by offering tourists from across the world courses that include simulated situations of killing assailants who suspiciously look like Palestinian Arabs.

The Palestinian anti-occupation movement also warned of Israeli intents to use the shootout to step up break-ins at al-Aqsa Mosque and aggressions on the peaceful Muslim worshipers.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri has described Friday’s shooting attack in the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem') as “a natural response to Israel’s terrorism and its desecration of the Aqsa Mosque.”

Israel is trying to persuade Saudi Arabia to establish a direct flight to Mecca, saying it wants to send 'special Hajj pilgrimage flights' to Mecca, amid efforts between the two sides to build alliance against Iran.

Three Palestinian young men were killed on Friday morning in a shootout with Israeli troopers at the Aqsa Mosque in the occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem'). Also, two Israeli troopers were dead.

The Israeli occupation authorities declared that Friday's Muslim prayer will not be held at the third holiest site in Islam—al-Aqsa Mosque—after two Israeli soldiers were fatally gunned down in an anti-occupation shooting attack.

Senior Arab expert, Abd al-Bari Atwan says the coincidence of the Mosul recapture by the Iraqi forces with the 11th anniversary of the Lebanese Hezbollah’s great victory of the Zionist regime in 2006 may be a total accident however it demonstrates the dominant role of Iran and its allies in the region.

Hundreds of Palestinian citizens took part in the funeral of the two Palestinian martyrs Saad Salah, 21, and Aws Salama, 17, in Jenin city on Wednesday.

A human rights report kept record of the abduction of 84 Palestinian women and girls by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) over the past six months.

Tala Barghouthi, daughter of Palestinian captive, Abdullah Barghouthi earned the highest average in the history of Palestine in twelfth grade final exams

At least two young Palestinians have been killed after Israeli forces stormed into the Jenin refugee camp in northern West Bank and clashed with the residents.

A UN official has warned that the Gaza Strip is drawing closer to becoming “unlivable” much faster than previous expectations, as Israel’s all-out blockade of the impoverished sliver continues.

Members of the executive board of the Society in Defense of the Palestinian Nation (SDPN) in the West Azarbaijan province have met with the SDPN Secretary General, Dr. Zahra Mostafavi.

The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says the US created the Daesh terrorists and gave regional states the green light to fund and support the Takfiri militant group.

Israel’s Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz has proposed the annexation of five Israeli settlements, located in the occupied West Bank, to the al-Quds ('Jerusalem') municipality while removing some 100,000 Palestinians from the city’s census.

The much-heralded visit by Narendra Modi to Israel was to be expected, is what they would conclude. Reasons are obvious: BJP’s ultra-nationalist and dogmatic ideology shares an affinity with Zionism and the political elite led by Benjamin Netanyahu.

Iraqi Prime Minister Heidar al-Ebadi hoisted the flag of Iraq after Iraqi forces drove out all ISIS terrorist from Mosul.

General Soleimani hailed the role of Iraqi Religious Leader Ayatollah Sistani and the volunteer forces in defeating Daesh, adding that the people of world are indebted to Iraqi and Syrian people.

Secretary General of the Society in Defense of the Palestinian Natin (SDPN), Dr. Zajra Mostafavi met with four Greek university professors at her office in Tehran on Monday.

Spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Qasemi says the case of the four Iranian diplomats who were abducted at the hands of Israel-affiliated gunmen in 1982 remains open.

A Palestinian was reportedly shot down after allegedly carrying out a car ramming attack that left at least one Israeli trooper injured near the village of Tuqu in the southern occupied West Bank district of Beit Lahm ('Bethlehem').

Director-general of the Environment Protection Department in Gaza, Bahaa al-Din al-Agha, said in an online interview on Sunday that the power shortage has negatively affected all environmental sectors.

Palestine Expo, a celebration of Palestinian culture, history, and food, was uncertain to go ahead as recently as last week, as the British government considered complaints by pro-Israel groups.

Hundreds of Israelis have held a demonstration near Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s home to denounce the slow progress in corruption investigations involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Palestinians have hailed a recent decision by South Africa’s ruling party to downgrade the country’s embassy in the occupied territories to a liaison office in an attempt to reduce diplomatic relations with Israel.d

DWRC’s field workers conducted field visits to all the kindergartens that suffered damages and collected information through filling out questionnaires and affidavits from kindergarten owners in the five Gaza governorates, with a particular focus on eastern areas, where these damages were concentrated.

UNESCO has declared the Old City of al-Khalil ('Hebron') a protected heritage site in a secret ballot despite Israeli attempts to thwart the vote.

A Palestinian young man was pronounced dead on Friday morning after he was fatally hit by an Israeli settler driving near the al-Khader town south of Beit Lahm ('Bethlehem').

Israeli has reduced electricity supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip to 55 MGW, according to Palestinian Energy Authority.

Haneyya pointed to a US-Israeli project that is aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause, stressing that the Palestinian people will never accept any settlements that contradict their rights of return and establishing a Palestinian state.

Abu Khdeir’s family told Palestinian lawyer Muhannad Jibara on Wednesday that they "never had high hopes” that Israel’s legal system would actually order the demolitions.

Senior Iranian lawmaker, Alaeddin Borujerdi says the trend of normalization with Israel in the region will eventually prove harmful to the Muslim community.

Ex-US Ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro said that the appointment of Bin Salman opens an unprecedented opportunity for Israel to improve its regional position and supports it in facing its strategic and security challenges.