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Activists staged a “guerilla projection” in Wellington on Monday, after the New Zealand capital’s mayor banned a planned illumination of a prominent building in the Palestinian colors.

Iran's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN slammed the international community's inaction on Israel's war crimes and continuous terrorism against the Palestinian people.

Arab teachers in occupied territories risk losing their jobs after the Zionist regime’s security agency Shin Bet agreed to notify the Ministry of Education of instances where they express political opinions.

More than 100 Palestinians and supporters gathered on the steps of Winnipeg's city hall on Sunday to mark the anniversary of their uprooting nearly seven decades ago.

On the 74th anniversary of the Nakba (Day of Catastrophe), Palestinian Authority's Foreign Ministry says the catastrophe lingers on amid Israel’s apartheid against the Palestinian people.

The Arab League warns about the consequences of the Zionist regime's deliberate actions targeting the status quo at the al-Aqsa Mosque's compound.

West Asia affairs expert

Recent events in Palestine have tragically once again underscored the critical need for a just peace in the region, for both Palestinians and Israelis, said World Council of Churches (WCC) acting General Secretary, the Rev Prof Dr Ioan Sauca.

The Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) denounces the barbaric and inhumane killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh allegedly by Israeli troops.

Scotland’s Health secretary has strongly criticised Israeli security forces who beat mourners carrying the coffin of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh through the streets of Jerusalem.

The UN Security Council on Friday night strongly condemned the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and called for “an immediate, thorough, transparent, and fair and impartial investigation.” The unanimous condemnation came hours after Israeli police charged and beat mourners at her funeral in Jerusalem.

Former premier Ehud Barak has expressed concern about Israel's survival, saying the entity will cease to exist before the 80th anniversary of its 1948 establishment.

The Israeli government's restrictions on Muslims and Christians performing their religious rights in occupied Palestinian lands is at a legally and ethically unacceptable level.

The new press secretary at the White House—appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden this week and set to take over for current press secretary Jen Psaki next week—is raising concerns with some in the pro-Israel community for her previous work with anti-Israel organizations.

Zionist regime’s public security minister Omer Bar-Lev says the regime suffered “a very heavy price” after three people were killed and several others hurt in an attack in Elad city.

Despite its claims to be advocating human rights, the Canadian government is giving in to mounting pressure from pro-Israeli lobby groups to expel a Palestinian journalist and activist on false charges of promoting anti-Semitism.

Russia's foreign ministry accused Zionist regime on Tuesday of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, further escalating a row which began when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed Adolf Hitler had Jewish origins, reports Reuters.

The phones of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles were infected with the Israeli NSO Group's Pegasus spyware without the approval of the Spanish government, the country's Minister of the Presidency Félix Bolaños announced on Monday.

Israel has prevented the leaders of two prominent Palestinian civil society organisations from travelling to an international conference, months after outlawing their work.

The continuation of the Israeli occupation of Palestine for over 70 years is “a full-fledged racist war crime,” says the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, which also denounced the Zionist regime’s incessant violation of the Palestinian people’s rights, in particular workers.

27-year-old youth was martyred by Israeli forces in Qalqilya.

Former Zionist regime's war minister Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon announced on Friday that Israel is not currently facing an "external, but internal" threat, the Akka news website reported.

In an extraordinary move, authorities say anti-Israeli statements at previous rallies are enough to ban future ones.

The usurping Zionist regime is wallowing in a convoluted network of problems in both political and military arenas, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on the occasion of Quds Day.

The Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei will deliver a televised speech on Friday on the occasion of the International Quds Day.

Addressing Quds Day marchers in Tehran on Friday, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps predicted that the Zionist regime of Israel will be wiped out of the world map soon, the IRNA news agency reported.

“We consider the liberation of Holy Quds and the liberation of the oppressed and defenseless nation of Palestine from the domination of the occupying Zionist regime and the effort to eradicate Israel's cancerous tumor as the lofty ideal of the Islamic world,” according to the resolution.

Tensions high in Palestinian territories amid Israeli arrest campaigns, settler incursions into Al-Aqsa complex.

"We see that the dynamism of the people has also grown. The majority of people have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to resist. The Zionist attempt to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of the factors intensifying the resistance,” Dr. Khalil al-Hayat said.

The number of anti-Israeli incidents recorded in the Netherlands reached a 10-year high of 183 cases in 2021.

“More than four decades have passed since the political, religious and military fatwa of Imam Khomeini about the need for the destruction of Israel. With each passing day, the need to execute this command becomes more apparent and, of course, we have gotten closer to its realization,” the statement stated.

Israel has currently imprisoned 579 Palestinians without charge or trial, according to reports. This is the highest number of such detainees in the last five years.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett received a threatening letter Tuesday containing a bullet, local media reported.

International Conference on Palestinian Intifada called on the international community to condemn Israel’s atrocities against the people of Palestine in order to stop “the institutionalized oppression.”

Dozens of Tunisian lawyers have strongly denounced the Zionist regime’s daily aggression against Palestinian people across the occupied West Bank and the Old City of al-Quds, calling on the North African country’s authorities to criminalize normalization of ties with Israel through a clear and transparent ruling.

Ilan Pape

The political bloc of Iraq’s influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is set to submit a bill criminalizing the normalization of ties with the Zionist regime.

Akram Atallah

Zionist regime announced the closure of Gaza’s commercial and pedestrian crossings in a collective punishment move.

Eric Walberg

Emirati airline Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has canceled its participation in Israel's Independence Day flyover this year, amid Arab condemnation of Al-Aqsa and Old City violence, according to the Israel Pilot's Association.

"The recent escalation of events has led to a spike in Palestinian detentions, especially in the Jenin region and in east Jerusalem," said the Palestinian Commission of Prisoners' Affairs.

Zionist regime’s troops have injured over 70 Palestinian protesters after thousands of Zionist settlers marched under Zionist regime’s army protection near Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Jordanian lawmakers have called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in response to “ongoing Israel aggression” and violations at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds.

Talking about the collapse process of Israel, Shakespeare underlined that “the changing demographics of the area are such that Israel cannot win while still maintaining some semblance of democracy. Therefore, in one sense, the collapse of Israel has already happened.”

Pope Francis on Sunday called for free access to the holy sites in al-Quds (Jerusalem) as he delivered his annual Easter address amid simmering violence between Israelis and Palestinians in the Holy City.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that even the slightest movements of the Israeli regime were not hidden from Iranian military, intelligence, and security forces.

An Arab Israeli party has frozen its participation in the ruling coalition, protesting indiscriminate violence by the regime’s forces against Palestinian worshippers in the holy occupied city of al-Quds.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry: Israel’s vote in favor of suspending Russia from the UNHRC was a “thinly veiled” attempt to divert international attention away from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Director of ISNA News Agency

There is a reason why Israel is insistent on linking the series of attacks carried out by Palestinians recently to a specific location, namely the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. By doing so, the embattled Naftali Bennett’s government can simply order another deadly military operation in Jenin to reassure its citizens that the situation is under control.

A poll released Wednesday by the Jewish Electorate Institute, a group led by prominent Jewish Democrats, showed Biden’s approval rating down from 80% in a poll by the same organization last July.

Zionist regime abducted 539 Palestinians during the month of March, including 62 minors and 19 women, and issued 195 administrative detention orders against Palestinians, prisoners’ advocacy groups said.

Mojtaba Ferdosipour

Israeli rights groups warn such legislation may be applied as collective punishment against Palestinians who live in 1948 occupied territories.

Senior officials at the European Commission were targeted last year with spy software designed by an Israeli surveillance firm, according to two EU officials and documentation reviewed by Reuters.

The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has lashed out at Turkey and Bahrain for condemning the heroic resistance operation in Tel Aviv, stressing that resistance to Israeli terrorism is a right recognized under international law.

Tzedek Chicago was founded seven years ago, in part, to create a Jewish community free from a strong attachment to Israel.

It is planned to hold the International Quds Day with the presence of the people, and we expect the media to pay more attention to this issue due to the two-year break in the commemoration of the International Quds Day because of the pandemic, General Ramezan Sharif said.

An expert meeting on the Horizon of Palestine Development was held on the eve of International Quds Day with the attendance of Nasser Abu Sharif, representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement in Tehran, and Hossein Ruivaran, expert on regional issues.