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Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, refused, Wednesday, to condemn Israel, saying "no country is perfect" after Amnesty International said it is "committing apartheid."

Palestinian advocates in Australia have called on the federal government not to ignore an international report accusing Israel of committing apartheid and have expressed deep disappointment with the Prime Minister's comments that "no country is perfect".

Israel’s security establishment is urging the government to act with caution and not rush into normalising ties with Turkey, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Turkish demonstrators have gathered outside the Israeli consulate in Turkey’s most populous city of Istanbul to express their resentment over the forthcoming visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to the country.

Network tells co-host to take a two-week break ‘to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments’; move comes despite apologies for saying Nazi genocide ‘not about race’.

The United States rejects the view that Israel's actions towards the Palestinians constitute apartheid, the State Department said on Tuesday, after Amnesty International accused Israeli authorities of enforcing such policies, Reuters reports.

A process to reconcile the Palestinian factions has begun said Algerian Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra, whose country said last month that it would host the inter-Palestinian talks, Reuters reports.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has lambasted the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for allowing Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit the Persian Gulf Arab country as the occupying regime continues with its crimes against Palestinians.

In his reflection on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Rev. J. Herbert Nelson said he hoped U.S. Jews would influence the U.S. government in ‘ending the immoral enslavement’ of Palestinians.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has stated that the remarks made by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, that he will not allow the creation of a Palestinian state, are a "slap in the face" of the negotiation team.

House members say UN investigation is part of 'continued broader bias against Israel'.

Zionist regime requested Germany’s help in reaching a prisoners swap deal with the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas.

A Palestinian university lecturer has been suspended from teaching by a university in the British city of Sheffield over old anti-Israel Tweets.

Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index has given Israel its worst ever score in the global rankings of how governments deal with graft, it was reported on Tuesday.

Isaac Herzog will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Jan. 30-31, his office said on Tuesday, seeking to strengthen Persian Gulf ties.

A top Palestinian official criticised US President Joe Biden's policy on the Palestinian issue, saying he is "no different" from his predecessor Donald Trump, Anadolu News Agency reports.

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qasem said on Sunday evening that the spike in coronavirus infections among Palestinian captives in Israeli occupation prisons reflects deliberate medical negligence against them.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, referring to some high aspects of the personality of Hazrat Fatemeh (PBUH), including social movements and selfless service to the people, called the eulogy centers, venues for the great jihad of explanation.

At least 200 Palestinians were killed by Zionist gangs in the village of Tantura, which was razed in 1948.

Security and intelligence cooperation between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli occupation has reached "dangerous and unprecedented levels", the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (PIJ) said.

The call comes days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued in his friendlier messages towards Israel.

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, demanded, Wednesday, that Israeli authorities end the displacement of Palestinians in occupied East Al-Quds, Anadolu News Agency reports.

The phones of two prominent women’s rights campaigners in Bahrain and Jordan are found to have been infected by Pegasus spyware developed by the Israeli offensive cyber firm NSO Group.

The Lebanese government has dismissed as "completely untrue" an Israeli media report claiming that the Zionist regime has signed a US-mediated agreement to indirectly pump natural gas to Lebanon to aid the fuel-strapped Mediterranean country.

The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Al-Quds, Theophilos III, told PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas that extremist Zionist groups want to expel Christians from Al-Quds and other parts of the Holy Land.

Most of those asked, believe the former prime minister is guilty of the corruption charges against him.

With nearly two governments for each half of 2021, Israeli occupation authorities doubled down on policies to repress Palestinians and privilege Israeli settlers during the last year, said Human Rights Watch in a new report.

Several Palestinian protesters were injured as the Zionist regime's police used brutal force to suppress a demonstration in the Negev region in southern occupied territories, an Arab human rights centre said.

Arab media outlets reported yesterday that Mossad Director David Barnea met in Jordan recently with Khalifa Hifter’s rival, Libyan transition Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh.

Member of Hamas Political Bureau Mousa Abu Marzouq said that his movement has received an invitation from Russia to attend talks on Palestinian reconciliation.

The Palestinian Authority, on Wednesday, accused Zionist regime of committing crimes against Palestinians in the Negev region, Anadolu News Agency reports.

A coalition of eight Zionist organizations on Tuesday urged Senate leadership to pass funding to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile system, arguing that the widely popular bipartisan initiative should not be derailed by a single member.

Palestine summoned a Dutch diplomat over Netherlands’ decision to pull funding from a Palestinian civil society organization.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said in a live speech on Sunday that the Americans mistakenly thought they could kill the movement whose symbol was General Qasem Soleimani by assassinating him.

Palestinian political experts

Riyadh regime employs arbitrary arrest to muffle Israel normalization opponents, rights group in Saudi Arabia said.

A member of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned that resistance movements will not remain silent for long on the siege imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip.

According to a Swiss newspaper, Mossad may have been involved in the attacks and threats against German and Swiss companies in the 1980s to prevent Pakistan from developing nuclear weapons.

Palestinians gather outside the house Hisham Abu Hawash, held under Israeli administrative detention, after he ended his hunger strike.

Leah Goldin, mother of Hadar Goldin, the Zionist trooper captured by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, expressed her anger with the Zionist regime's political leadership over ignoring him for seven years, Safa news agency reported on Sunday.

With the martyrdom of the great commanders of the resistance, not only has the anti-arrogance and anti-Zionist resistance not been weakened, but it pursues its founding goals stronger and more active than before everywhere, including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen.

A former Zionist minister has renewed call for the assassination of top Hamas leaders Haniyeh and Sinwar, Anadolu Agency reported.

Israeli media outlets Maariv Online and The Jerusalem Post were hit with a cyberattack early Monday, which marks the second anniversary of the martyrdom of prominent figure Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Sunday denounced Israeli airstrikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip.

The martyrdom of Gen. Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad’s airport pushed Iran and the U.S. perilously close to all-out conflict and sparked outrage in Iraq.

A group of NGOs have criticised the Olympic Council Malaysia for its "hurried" response after its secretary-general Mohammad Nazifuddin Najib raised concern that Malaysia may not be able to host the international future sporting competition for banning Israeli athletes.

Imam Khamenei met with the family of Gen. Qasem Soleimani on January 1 on the second anniversary of his martyrdom in a terrorist attack by the US government.

Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has asked Israeli War Minister Benny Gantz to strengthen him "politically" in return for ending Palestinian efforts to have Israel tried for war crimes at the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (Kan) reported on Wednesday.

The Hamas resistance movement has condemned a meeting between Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli minister of military affairs, Benny Gantz, as "a dagger in the back of the intifada (uprising)" in the West Bank, saying it weakens opposition to the normalization of ties with the occupying regime.

Syria on Monday condemned Israel's plan to double within five years the number of Jewish settlers in the Golan Heights captured from Syria in 1967 as a "dangerous and unprecedented escalation," Syrian state media reported. 

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett went into isolation at home on Sunday and will await the results of a COVID-19 PCR test after his 14-year-old daughter tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said.

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will convene a cabinet meeting in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights on Sunday to approve a plan to double the population of the region.

Zionist experts believe that in the current equation, the United States will work hard to reach an agreement, because it is impossible for them to accept the risk of another option (military confrontation).

Head of Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, has said that Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's call for a meeting of Palestinian factions reflects his country's "appreciated" interest in the Palestinian cause.

Hundreds of Moroccans have staged demonstrations to express their resentment and reiterate support for the Palestinian cause on the first anniversary of the US-sponsored normalization of diplomatic relations between the North African country and Zionist regime.

Report claims White House snubbed Israeli leader over frustration with settlement construction; US National Security Adviser Sullivan on 3-day visit to Mideast, focused on Iran.

U.S. blacklisting and scathing reports by Google and Facebook-owner Meta are only some of the steps being taken against Israeli firms that are not being properly supervised by agencies at home.

A Chinese envoy on Tuesday expressed concern over the security situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, calling the expansion of illegal Zionist settlement a violation of international law.

The NGO's report on Israel’s conduct ranked higher than those on topics including sexual violence in India, extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, digital sex crimes in South Korea and more

Jake Sullivan will discuss Iran threat with Israeli officials, relations with Palestinian leader, says spokeswoman.