middle east

Agzaya al-Karaan held her son Salameh in a tearful embrace moments after passing through the Beit Hanoun border crossing into Israel from Gaza. She was exhausted, worn out by worry and by her ordeal.

"Israeli claims that Iran is behind the escalation of acts of resistance in the West Bank are baseless and foolish accusations," accoridng to Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday.

Former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday said PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif would return to Pakistan in October.

Since the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank in 1967, which is considered by many Zionists as the heartland of the Jewish world, the Israeli occupation authorities started concerted efforts to alter the character of Jerusalem, particularly its cherished Al-Aqsa Mosque. From the early days of the Occupation, the occupying army demolished the Moroccan neighbourhood and its surroundings to make room for what is nowadays known “the Wailing Wall”. Over the years, the Mosque has suffered extensive damage to its furniture, walls, ceiling, carpets, rare decorations as well as the loss of its Quran and other valuable possessions. The restoration process has taken years to complete.

Authorities in Pakistan have launched a probe and arrested at least 146 people in the Punjab province a day after a Muslim mob torched five churches and attacked dozens of houses belonging to the local Christian community over claims of blasphemy, the province’s top police official has told Al Jazeera.

Palestinian officials welcomed their first Saudi Arabian ambassador, even as the kingdom mulls over establishing formal diplomatic relations with Israel.

Mawlavi Abdul Kabir, the Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs of the Islamic Emirate, has met with a number of tribal elders and influential people from Nangarhar province.

Israel's far-right national security minister made changes to the law to end the possibility of early release from overcrowded prisons for Palestinian "administrative detainees".

Palestinian media reports "occupation forces committed the crime of shooting at a car with young men inside it at the top of Mount Gerizim in Nablus" and that one of the killed Palestinians was shot at a close range.

The Korean economy expanded for the second consecutive quarter in the April-June period, as imports shrank at a faster pace than exports, which contributed to a net growth in trade.