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The Palestinian Authority (PA) says the Zionist regime’s embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to renew tensions in the holy occupied city of al-Quds as means of conjuring up an excuse to save his demising career.

The term ‘Naksa,’ or the ‘setback,’ refers to the beginning of the 1967 Six Day War on June 5, which saw Israel triple in size beginning over 54 years of occupation.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran is stronger than ever as the country marks the 32nd anniversary of the passing away of its revolutionary founder Imam Khomeini. 

Iran’s FM Zarif: Netanyahu meets same fate of anti-Iran co-conspirators in history’s dustbin.

Israeli opposition politician Yair Lapid announces forming an unprecedented coalition gathering a whole host of allies aimed at dealing death to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political longevity.

Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid announced on Wednesday that a deal was reached to form a coalition government that would end the 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Opposition has until a minute before midnight to cobble together administration to end Netanyahu’s 12-year rule.

Rodney Shakespeare

The apparent end – for now at least – to the Benjamin Netanyahu era, has, along with the recent one-sided conflict with Gaza, intensified calls for the US to end its special relationship with Israel.

Mahmoud al-Zahar

"This is a new equation that they did not take into account in the rules of conflict with the invaders. They believed that they were able to separate and divide the land and the people as they wished," Haniyeh said.

A member of Saraya al-Quds brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, takes part in a military parade in Gaza City, on May 29, 2021.

Approximately 600 musicians signed an open letter Thursday (May 27) that called on other artists to join them in boycotting Israel and standing in solidarity with Palestine.

Poverty among Palestinians living in the densely populated Gaza Strip is expected to undergo 'a dramatic increase'.

During the first three days of the latest Gaza war, the oppressed people of Palestine fired missiles into the occupied territories almost twice the number of rockets launched during the 22-war in 2008-2009.

In separate messages, Iran, Russia, China and Lebanon's Hezbollah have separately congratulated Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for achieving a landslide victory and winning his fourth seven-year term in the 2021 presidential election.

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad wins the country’s presidential election by a landslide, securing 95.1 percent of the popular vote.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has backed up the Constitutional Council against recent criticism of its disqualification of some presidential hopefuls.

Maria Saadeh

The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has warned Zionist regime that any aggression on holy sites in the occupied al-Quds would lead to a regional war and destruction of the Zionist regime.

Ahmad Dastmalchian

Letter calls on US president to take a tougher stance and work to end the ‘occupation, blockade, and settlement expansion,’ and accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing.

In response to letters from the head of Hamas' political bureau and the secretary-general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in a letter said: "You will witness the final victory."

Majed Ghammas

Mojtaba Ferdosipour

Protestors were waving the Palestinian flag with a placard reading, 'Stop doing what Hitler did to you', while a poster held by a woman read, 'Israel, the new Nazi state'. 

In a letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the secretary general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad hails Iran’s support for the resistance front in its 12-day war against the Israeli regime, extending his congratulations to the Leader on the great victory.

At least 15 protesters arrested in pro-Palestinian demonstration in Sweden

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has extended his congratulations to the Palestinian people over the historic victory of the resistance front against the Zionist regime.

"Israel failed to achieve any goals of its aggression and fled from battle with the Palestinian resistance," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Anadolu Agency in a first official reaction to the cease-fire.

As the Palestinian casualties of recent Israeli attacks in Gaza reached 227 people, the United States opposes again a draft U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas.

A large group of people gathered in Imam Hussein Square in Tehran on Wednesday to express their support for the defenseless Palestinians over the recent brutal attacks carried out by the usurper Israeli regime.

Food and water insecurity in Gaza is intensifying amid destruction, displacement and disruption to emergency humanitarian aid caused by Israeli bombardment in the impoverished enclave.

We hail the Palestinian people in the West Bank who have revolted against the Israeli occupation in response to its crimes at Al Aqsa Mosque, thus confirming that the Palestinians across Palestine, in Gaza, the West Bank, and the territories occupied in 1948, are united in their freedom struggle.

Mojtaba Ferdosipour

As the ‘Israeli’ war on Gaza enters its second week, the Palestinian resistance managed to reciprocate its responses, while forcing six million ‘Israeli’ settlers to remain hiding inside shelters.

At least 197 people, including 58 children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, reports say, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The Associated Press' top editor is calling for an independent investigation into the Israeli airstrike that targeted and destroyed a Gaza City building housing the AP, broadcaster Al-Jazeera, and other media, saying the public deserves to know the facts.

Salah al-Zawawi

Large protests were held in solidarity with the Palestinians and in protest of the Zionist regime’s aggression on Gaza and Al-Quds around the world.

US capital, Brooklyn, New York focal points of pro-Palestine demonstrations on anniversary of Nakba.

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed eight children and demolished a building housing international media outlets on Saturday, as Palestinian militants fired back barrages of rockets.

Dr. Salman Razavi

At least 133 Palestinians, including 38 children and 20 women, have been martyred and about 1,000 others injured in Gaza in the Israeli regime's latest round of aggression that began on Monday.

The ministry of health said that the Israeli aggression has so far claimed the lives of 119 Palestinians including 28 children and 15 women.

This brings the total death toll in Gaza since the beginning of the current onslaught to 103, including 22 children and eight women.

The death toll from Zionist regime’s ongoing aggression against the impoverished Gaza Strip rose on Wednesday evening to at least 65 Palestinians, including 17 children and five women.

Palestinians perform Eid al-Fitr prayers marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Al-Aqsa mosque.  

Several Israeli cities and settlements have been targeted by the resistance groups’ missiles and rockets, and Israel’s air defense system, Iron Dome, was unable to track many of them.

The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has fired scores of rockets toward Israel, hitting Tel Aviv and the surrounding areas in retaliation for the regime’s aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.

The rocket launch saw as many as 137 of the projectiles being flown towards the cities in just five minutes, the Hamas’ branch said.

Head of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh stated that the “connection between Gaza with Jerusalem (Al-Quds) in stable and unchangeable."

Palestinian resistance groups fire as many as 150 rockets from the Gaza Strip towards the occupied territories as the Zionist regime persists its crackdown and deadly brutality against Palestinians.

Zionist troops martyred 20 Palestinians, including nine children in an airstrike on the northern Gaza Strip on Monday evening, as tensions escalated over Zionist regime’s aggression in Al-Quds.

Relative calm returned to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Al-Quds on Monday afternoon, with Zionist regime’ police withdrawing after hours of clashes and Palestinian protesters at the site declaring victory. 

Major clashes broke out Monday morning between Zionist Regime’s police and Palestinians inside Al-Aqsa mosque, with hundreds said wounded.

Head of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh has urged Arab and Muslim leaders to take firm and immediate stance in response to Israeli aggression against Al-Quds and Al-Aqsa Mosque. 

Konrad Rękas

Qodsna Editorial Board