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The images of dead Palestinian civilians, including many innocent women and children, is badly damaging Israel’s largely positive image in the United States. And while the U.S. government is more supportive of Israel’s barbarity, many celebrities want to use their voice to gain awareness for this problem. 1. Cristiano Ronaldo Ronaldo never hid the fact that he is pro-Palestine. This Portuguese soccer player, who doesn’t need an introduction, has expressed his support for Palestine several times in the past. In 2013, he didn’t want to swipe t-shirts with an Israeli player to demonstrate his support for Palestinian rights. The 28-year-old gave away his Golden Boot Award to the Real Madrid foundation, which later put it up for auction to raise money for building schools in Palestine. 2. Jon Stewart The former host of the Daily Show spoke about the Palestinian issue several times. He always did it in a funny way but always told the truth. 3. Zayn Malik 4. Penelope Cruz...

Israeli police planned to teach children how to shoot at Palestinians as part of a training exercise in a school. The incident in the Menashe Regional Council, near Haifa in northern present-day Israel, was brought to light in recent days when Palestinian citizens of Israel took photos of what was happening. Jamal Zahalka, a member of the Israeli parliament from the Joint Arab List, is demanding an investigation into the training sponsored by the Israeli police and the education ministry, which he said “prepares students psychologically to kill Arabs.” One photo shows a person – most of their body blurred with a black marker – using a paintball gun to fire at cutouts of men and women wearing checkered kuffiyeh headscarves that are associated with Palestinians. Zahalka made his demand in a letter to public security minister Gilad Erdan, according to the publication Arab48. The activity in Menashe Regional Council is part of widespread training of children by pol...

DAMASCUS: Syria accused Israel on Monday of carrying out deadly bombing raids on a military airbase in the country’s centre, state news agency SANA reported. “The Israeli attack on the T-4 airport was carried out with F-15 aircraft that fired several missiles from above Lebanese territory,” SANA said, citing a military source. It had reported just before dawn that “several missiles” had hit T-4, which lies in central Syria and is also known as the Tiyas air base. A military spokeswoman for Israel declined to comment on Monday. SANA had initially reported the strike as a “suspected US attack” but later withdrew all references to the United States. It said the attack had left dead and wounded but did not give casualty figures. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the country’s conflict, said 14 fighters had been killed, including at least three Syrian officers and Iranian forces. Forces from regime backers Russia and Iran, as well as fighters from the Leba...

The Dome of the Rock (Qubbah al-Sakhrah) in Jerusalem built, as commonly perceived,[1] between 65 H/684 CA and 72 H/691 CA within the precincts of the original al-Aqsa Mosque (al-Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary)[2] is one of the earliest existing monuments of Islamic art and architecture. Its significance lies in its religious, civilizational, geographical and historical contexts. The Dome of the Rock is located on an artificial platform, approximately in the center of the al-Haram al-Sharif or the original al-Aqsa Mosque. According to Creswell, it is “an annular building and consists in its ultimate analysis of a wooden dome 20.44 m. in diameter, set on a high drum, pierced with sixteen windows and resting on four piers and twelve columns, placed in a circle just large enough to surround the Rock, and so arranged that three columns alternate with each pier. A central cylinder is thus formed, of height about equal to its diameter. This circle of supports is placed i...

JERUSALEM: Veteran army Radio anchor Kobi Meidan received harsh criticism after he shares his feeling of being ‘ashamed to be Israeli’ in light of military’s actions over the killing of 18 Palestinians along the Gaza Strip border. “Today, I’m ashamed to be Israeli,” Kobi, the television presenter posted on his Facebook page, reported the Israeli daily Haaretz on Monday. Angry with Kobi’s post, radio commander Shimon Elkabetz dismissed the prominent host’s and his programme from broadcasting. Later on, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), said, “If [Meidan] is ashamed , he should draw the conclusions himself and quit the station. I think it’s shameful that this is a presenter on an army radio station, but this is also part of our reality.” At least 18 Palestinians were killed and over 1,500 were have also been injured after In addition to the 18 Palestinians killed, more than 1,500 were have also been injured Israeli troops opened fir...

Damascus: A total of 40,000 civilians have returned home in the Syrian capital’s Eastern Ghouta, where the Army nearly gained full control, state news agency SANA reported on Tuesday. The return of the civilians was ongoing as the Syrian Army recaptured all towns in Eastern Ghouta except for the last rebel stronghold of Douma district, the report said. Around 150,000 civilians left Eastern Ghouta in March following a relentless offensive by government troops targeting the rebels. A day earlier, SANA reported that 12,000 children from Eastern Ghouta returned to schools in the government-run shelters. As the last batch of rebels were moving to the rebel-held area in the northern city of Jarablus, the situation in Eastern Ghouta was returning to normal, allowing people to return home. Eastern Ghouta, a 105-square-km agricultural region consisting of several towns and farmlands, used to be occupied by several rebel groups, who posed the last threat to the capital by fi...

Gaza: Israeli border police dropped tear gas from a drone onto Palestinian protesters in Gaza on Friday, a police spokesman told AFP, acknowledging operational deployment of new technology. An AFP correspondent saw a drone release around 10 gas canisters as protesters on the border with Israel cursed the small craft. A number of people were injured by the containers, which fell from a height of between 10 and 20 metres (30-60 feet), the correspondent said. Use of unmanned aerial vehicles to launch gas is a recent innovation, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. “It was used a few weeks ago around the Gaza Strip area and it is also being used today, in order to prevent protesters getting to the Gaza crossing or Gaza border,” he said. “It’s a mini-drone which has the capability of flying over certain zones and certain areas and then letting go of tear gas in areas that we want to prevent protesters from reaching.” Video of the tactic in use was shown in a r...

Occupied Jerusalem: The Israeli Magistrate Court ruled that Jewish settlers can perform prayers at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque. This was reported by Israel’s Channel 7 TV station. The court claimed that Jews rights on Al-Aqsa are no less than Arabs. The court ruled this during a hearing of the case regarding the handling of three female Jewish settlers by the police, who were praying at Al-Aqsa. The Israeli judge said that anyone has the right to pray on any street in Israel provided that he does not harm the rights of others. The judge also claimed that praying at the gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque is “the best proof of the Israeli control of the area”. He accused the Muslim worshippers of pushing the Jewish settlers. However commenting upon the court’s ruling, Chairman of the Higher Islamic Council in Jerusalem, Sheikh Ekrema Sabri, termed the court’s ruling is irresponsible and illegal and said: “Al-Aqsa Mosque is a holy site for Muslims only and the and we will not abide by i...

Damascus: Abdelkarim Ibrahim, an aid worker in the besieged Syrian region of eastern Ghouta partnered with ‘Save the Children’ has spoken of the suffering and hopelessness felt by civilians trapped in the region saying it is a “wholesale slaughter witnessed by a motionless world.” Ibrahim is working to distribute winter kits to civilians. Ibrahim, through a translator told Huffington Post of the “hysterical panic” experienced by people in the face of “constant airstrikes, barrel bombs and artillery bombardment.” Twitter “There has been a devastating deterioration in quality of life for Ghouta’s population,” he said from Syria. “The civilians of eastern Ghouta have never witnessed such a battering campaign where … more than 4,200 airstrikes over the city of eastern Ghouta were launched. A city with a total area of 107 square kilometers [about 41 square miles] and 400,000 inhabitants has been battered by more than 4,200 airstrikes.” “The internal refugees lack the minimal e...

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military on Wednesday formally acknowledged its involvement in airstrikes that demolished a suspected nuclear facility in Syria 11 years ago. Previously, Israel never admitted it was involved in the strikes. On Wednesday, the Israeli censor’s office lifted a long-held prohibition on publishing information on the attack, the BBC reported. In a statement, the Israeli military said that in the assault, dubbed “Operation Out of the Box”, Israeli fighter jets attacked and destroyed an undeclared nuclear facility in Deir-al-Zour on September 6, 2007. “On the night between September 5th-6th, 2007, Israeli Air Force fighter jets successfully struck and destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in development,” the Israeli statement said. “The reactor was close to being completed. The operation successfully removed an emerging existential threat to Israel and to the entire region — Syrian nuclear capabilities.” Israel said the air raid in the eastern Dei...

BEIRUT: An air strike on a school in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta late Monday killed 15 children and two women who were using its basement as a bomb shelter, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing raid hit Arbin, a key town in the dwindling rebel-held enclave of Ghouta that has been under attack by government troops for over a month. “Three missiles from a single air strike hit the school, where the underground level was being used as a shelter,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the Britain-based monitor. “Rescue workers are still searching for survivors,” he told AFP. The Observatory, which identifies air strikes based on flight patterns, munitions used, and aircraft, said Monday night’s raids were suspected to have been carried out by Russia. Moscow has said it is helping Syria’s government “finish off” fighters in Ghouta but has denied carrying out air strikes against civilians. Since February 18, Syrian troops and allied m...