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By Awad Rjoob RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Israel has shut the flashpoint Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslims in the West Bank city of Hebron for marking Jewish holidays, according to the mosque director on Saturday. “Israeli forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque on Friday night to Muslim worshippers, while it was opened to Israeli settlers,” Ghassan al-Rajabi told […]

20th Nov 2022

Palestine: Over 9,300 Palestinian minors held by Israel since 2015

By Awad al-Rujoub RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): More than 9,300 Palestinian minors have been detained by Israel since 2015, according to a local NGO on Saturday. In a statement marking World Children’s Day, the Palestinian Prisoners Society NGO said Israeli forces rounded up 750 minors in 2022. “Around 160 children are still in Israeli custody,” […]

12th Oct 2022

Palestine: Over a thousand Israelis storm Al-Aqsa Mosque complex

By Abdelraouf Arnaout JERUSALEM (AA, Wafa News Agency): Hundreds of Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday, according to a Palestinian agency. In a brief statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees holy sites in Jerusalem, said 1032 settlers stormed the flashpoint site in […]

24th May 2022

Palestine: 96 Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa complex, Israel demolish Ibrahimi mosque staircase

By AbdelRaouf Arnaout JERUSALEM (AA): Scores of Israeli settlers on Monday forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian agency. In Hebron, Israeli authorities demolished parts of a historic staircase that leads to Ibrahimi mosque. In a statement, the Islamic Endowment Department in Jerusalem said 96 settlers […]

6th May 2022

Palestine: Hundreds of Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa complex, police fire at Muslim worshippers

By Abdelraouf Arnaout JERUSALEM (AA): Many Palestinians were injured after Israeli police fired rubber bullets at them and detained 51 Muslims, including an Algerian-origin French Muslim, while guarding hundreds of Israeli settlers that invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday . On the occasion of Israel’s foundation anniversary, Israeli settlement groups […]

27th May 2020

Palestine reopens mosque, church after 3-month Corona closure

By Qais Abu Samra RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Palestine on Tuesday reopened a prominent church and mosque in the occupied West Bank as part of easing coronavirus lockdown measures. The Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem opened for worshipers after three months. Dozens of Palestinians performed morning prayer at […]

23rd Nov 2019

Palestine: Jewish settlers storm Hebron’s Ibrahimi mosque

HEBRON, Palestine (AA): Hundreds of Jewish settlers on Saturday forced their way into the Ibrahimi mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to celebrate the Chayevi Sarah Jewish holiday. Meanwhile, on Thursday 50 Palestinian vehicles were vandalized in the latest series of Jewish settler attacks in the West Bank district of Salfit. Dozens of Israeli […]

30th Aug 2019

Palestine: Israel closes Ibrahimi Mosque for Jewish holiday

HEBRON, Palestine (AA): Israeli authorities closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) to Muslim worshipers for one day for a Jewish holiday, a local Palestinian official said on Thursday. “The Israeli authorities told us the mosque would be closed from Thursday morning to Friday morning,” said Raed Maswadeh, director […]

23rd Apr 2019

Palestine: Israel closes Ibrahimi mosque to Muslims for Passover

HEBRON, Palestine (AA): Israeli authorities closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Muslim worshippers for two days on Monday to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Passover, according to a Palestinian official. “The Israelis have notified us about the closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque as of Monday morning until Tuesday night,” […]

26th Sep 2018

Palestine: Jewish settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque compound, Israel closes Ibrahimi mosque to Muslims

JERUSALEM (AA) – Hundreds of Jewish settlers on Tuesday forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to a Palestinian official. Meanwhile, the Israeli authorities have closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) to Muslim worshipers for two days during the week long Jewish holiday of Sukkot, […]

12th Jul 2018

Palestine: Israel banned call to prayer 298 times at Ibrahimi mosque

By Esat Firat RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Israel prohibited the Muslim call to prayer 298 times in the first half of this year at a historical mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. “Occupying Israeli forces prohibited the Azan, including calls to Friday prayer, at the Ibrahimi Mosque 298 times in the first […]

7th Apr 2018

Palestine: Israel bans Friday call to prayer at Ibrahimi mosque

By Qais Abu Samra AL-KHALIL [Hebron], Palestine (AA): Israel on Friday banned the Adhan (the Muslim call to prayer) at the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to Palestinian Religious Endowments Minister Yousef Adais. In a press statement, Adais described the move as “a dangerous precedent” and “a cowardly […]

10th Dec 2015

Palestine: Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in Hebron

IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers killed, Wednesday, a young Palestinian man in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after an alleged stabbing attack targeting an Israeli soldier and a settler. The slain Palestinian’s cousin was killed, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, Monday. Medical sources said the Palestinian has been identified as Yosri Zakariyya Miswada, 21; […]

3rd Nov 2015

Palestine: Hebron on edge after deadly week

By Kaamil Ahmed HEBRON, (AA): Wherever people gather in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) — outside shops, at cafes, or in the local mosque — the topic of conversation is always the same: the latest young Palestinian to have been shot dead by Israeli troops. With the city on edge after nine young Palestinians […]

29th Sep 2015

Palestine: Israel to shut Hebron mosque to Muslims for 2-day holiday

HEBRON, (AA): The Israeli authorities have ordered the closure of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Muslims on Tuesday and Wednesday for the Jewish Sukkot holiday, a Palestinian official has said. “The Israeli authorities have told us that the mosque would be closed to Muslims during the Jewish Sukkot holiday,” […]

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