Asia Palestine Aqsa Week 2022 which starts today, an initiative by the British-based Friends of Al-Aqsa to shed light on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, has gone global for the second year running, with more than 50 countries set to participate
Asia Palestine Hamas called on Arab and Muslim countries and organisations to condemn and express outrage against Israeli forces for burning copies of the Koran in a Gaza mosque
Asia Palestine WHO and UNICEF called for a 7-day pause in the fighting in the Gaza Strip to allow the vaccination of 640.000 children against polio, after a case was found in a 10-month-old child after more than 25 years
Asia Palestine The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 40.000; authoritative research in recent months has stated that the estimate of health officials is downwards and the number is much higher, possibly reaching 185.000 according to Lancet's study
Asia Palestine The Palestinian Foreign Ministry asked the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich for saying it might be "justified and moral" to starve Palestinians in Gaza