How the Al-Aqsa Mosque became a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ... Yousef Munayyer is the head of the Palestine/Israel Program and senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC.

1. Why al-Aqsa is so important. Al-Aqsa is the name of the silver-domed mosque inside a 35-acre compound referred to as al-Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary, by Muslims, and as the Temple ...

Director of Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Omar Kiswani praised His Majesty King Abdullah II for protecting Christian holy sites in Palestine following an Israeli settler attack on Al-Khader Church and the ...

Director of Al Aqsa Mosque Omar Al Kiswani on Wednesday commended His Majesty King Abdullah’s steadfast efforts to safeguard Islamic and Christian holy sites in Palestine, particularly in light of ...

Palestine on Saturday warned of growing incitement by Israeli far-right settler groups calling for the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Palestine’s Foreign Ministry ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As a scholar of global Islam, I teach an introduction to Islam course and include a discussion about Al-Aqsa as part of the syllabus. That’s because Al-Aqsa has deep religious ...

It is also the home to two Muslim holy places - the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Qibli Mosque, which was built in the 8th century AD, the report added.

And it was exactly in one of those homes that Ariel Sharon had bought in the al-Wad neighbourhood just outside Al-Aqsa Mosque that the initial stabbing took place on September 13.

Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque is the third-holiest site in Islam, drawing tens of thousands of pilgrims from across Palestine and the wider Muslim world each year. The mosque also serves as a symbol ...

"The people of Palestine have no historical right to Palestine. They have no right that dates back 2,000, 3,000, or 4,000 years." ... Islamic Scholar in Al Aqsa: ‘We Are Muslims, ...