Israeli top rabbi Yitzhak Yosef expressed his appreciation to the Emirati royal family and the government Israel’s top Jewish rabbi inaugurated a Jewish nursery school in Dubai on Sunday and made a special Jewish ritual [ More … ]
Members of the Waqf, or Islamic trust, in charge with running Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, called on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem to close all mosques in the neighborhoods on Friday and for prayers to take [ More … ]
Palestinians residents of occupied East Jerusalem performed dawn prayers outside of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Monday to show their opposition to new metal detectors installed by Israeli authorities at the mosque’s entrances, which came in [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Israel prayed at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid heightened [ More … ]
“All we wanted to do was pray,” Baraa Jawabreh, a 14-year-old Palestinian told Ma’an at Israel’s infamous 300 military checkpoint in northern Bethlehem, after Israeli forces denied the teenager entry as he was attempting to [ More … ]
Israeli authorities on Friday permitted 100 Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip to travel to occupied East Jerusalem in order to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first Friday of the holy month of [ More … ]
BY: İBRAHIM KALIN* As we begin the month of Ramadan, let’s hope and pray that our fasting and prayers reach the depths of our souls and spirits Today is the beginning of the holy month of [ More … ]
Thousands of Palestinian worshipers on Friday performed noon prayers at the holy al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem. Hundreds of Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip traveled to occupied East Jerusalem via the Erez crossing between [ More … ]
Around 250,000 Muslims turned out to pray at East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque for the third Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, For Muslims, East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque represents world’s third holiest site, according to [ More … ]
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