Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh will be buried alongside her parents in a cemetery near Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, two days after she was shot dead in an Israeli army raid. The Palestinian American’s body has been transferred from the occupied West Bank, and her funeral will be held at a Jerusalem
Issued on: 19/04/2022 – 03:38 Israel carried out its first air strikes on the Gaza Strip in months early Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave as tensions soar after a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem holy site. Warning sirens sounded in southern Israel Monday night after the rocket was
Issued on: 18/04/2022 – 20:53 Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel for the first time in months on Monday, in a potentially major escalation after clashes at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem and a wave of attacks and military raids elsewhere. Israel said it intercepted the rocket, and there were no immediate
Issued on: 17/04/2022 – 13:05 Pope Francis, marking an “Easter of war” on Sunday urged leaders to hear the people’s plea for peace in Ukraine and implicitly criticised Russia for dragging the country into a “cruel and senseless” conflict. The 85-year-old pope made his comments in his twice-yearly “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) address
