Al-Aqsa Mosque

Israel’s Internal Security and Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said yesterday that Jewish prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound “may be planned in the future”.

A funeral has been held for a Palestinian man shot dead during a protest at the fence separating the Gaza Strip from the Israeli-occupied territories.

Jerusalem police chief Yoram Levy has recommended that Israeli members of parliament increase their raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, Channel 7 reported yesterday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at the US administration for closing its eyes on the reality that the Saudi government played the main role in the 9/11 terrorist attack and then seeking to punish Iran which is the first enemy of terrorist groups.

A record number of 3,900 Israeli settlers entered the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Israeli-occupied Old City of East Jerusalem al-Quds in July, says a Palestinian official.

Masked youths discharged fireworks in the direction of Israeli police near Jerusalem’s most important mosque on Friday and police charged the mosque compound to confront them, Reuters Television footage showed.

The Israeli authorities have prevented official workers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque from undertaking any restoration work inside the mosque compound, a Palestinian official revealed yesterday.

A group of Syrian intellectuals have met with the Secretary General of the Society in Defense of the Iranian Nation, Zahra Mostafavi.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi said on Friday that despite all conspiracies and fabricated crises, Palestine will continue to remain the first issue of the Islamic world until its complete liberation.

The news from the resignation by an unnamed senior official in the Trump administration, who described what has happened as “a reaction to the Jerusalem decision, has even brought more violence in West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip, demonstrating Trump's decision on Jerusalem.

On Thursday, dozens of Jewish settlers accompanied by Israeli police forced their way into al-Aqsa Mosque, according to a statement by Firas al-Dibis, a Palestinian official with Quds' Islamic Waqf.

Several Muslim scholars in Iran have joined the wave of condemnation of the US recognition of the occupied al-Quds as the capital of Israel in interviews with the Qods News Agency (Qodsna).

Hundreds of demonstrations have been organized around the world in protest against US President Donald Trump’s decision to move his country’s embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied al-Quds ('Jerusalem').

Israel’s local and district planning committees in the occupied old city of al-Quds ('Jerusalem') approved a plan to expand the light railroad line in the illegal settlement of Neve Ya’akov, in addition to the construction of two new train and bus stations.

Israel has planned to construct a new settler neighborhood to the southeast of illegal Gilo settlement east of the occupied old city of al-Quds ('Jerusalem').

The Israeli government advanced plans for the construction of 11,700 settler homes since the start of 2017, Walid Assaf, Chairman of the Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, said Sunday.

Palestinian people got a historical victory after a fortnight of struggle against Israel to keep their inalienable right of free visit to the holy al-Aqsa mosque in the occupied old city of al-Quds. The following images narrate the current ambience of the mosque and its worshipers.

Palestinian produced a robust 12-day resistance against the Israeli occupiers last month. Below are 12 frames of the memorable resistance.

Thousands of Jewish settlers on Monday night marched to al-Buraq Wall (Wailing Wall) plaza, west of the Aqsa Mosque, performed rituals near the holy site and chanted racist slogans against the Palestinians.

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.

The late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the father of the Islamic Revolution worldwide, Imam Khomeini once predicted that Muslims will finally return to a liberated city of al-Quds (‘Jerusalem’) that is currently occupied by Israel.

A report by the ‘Jerusalem’ International Foundation reviewed tens of facts regarding the Israeli occupation’s Judaization practices in the occupied al-Quds (‘Jerusalem’) since the occupation of its eastern part 50 years ago.

Al-Buraq Wall is one of the most famous historical landmarks of the occupied city of al-Quds (‘Jerusalem’). It is the wall that borders the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the west, and extends to al-Maghareba Gate to the south.

The US Senate passed a resolution on Monday -- the 50th anniversary of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territory -- declaring Quds the “undivided” capital of Israel.

The Hamas Movement on Friday organized a popular march in support of the Aqsa Mosque and against Israel’s ongoing violations in the occupeid al-Quds

The year 1967 was not the actual beginning of the occupation of Quds (‘Jerusalem’); the occupation began after the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate and the beginning of the British Mandate in Palestine in 1922.

Abbas will propose exchanging 6.5 percent of the Palestinian territory with Israel, more than triple the amount put forward in a previous land-swap initiative.

Al-Aqsa Mosque consists of a central large portico with a roof supported by marble pillars. It goes from north to south and is covered by a gable roof plated with colorful lead. It ends in the south in a large and awesome spherical dome supported by four stone pillars creating four corner triangles, which form the base that carries that dome’s neck. The dome itself consists of two internal and external layers (like the Dome of the Rock). Its interior is decorated with a beautiful mosaic ...