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The 19th Annual Palestine Festival, organized by the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), took place on Saturday in London, uniting thousands from the Palestinian and Arab communities alongside British supporters of the Palestinian cause.

The Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs in the Gaza Strip says Zionist regime’s military forces have fully destroyed or damaged hundreds of mosques in the besieged coastal territory ever since the Zionist regime started its bloody onslaught in early October last year.

More than 100 music artists have pulled out of an annual 4-day festival held in Britain to show solidarity with the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Jonathan Glazer, director of an Academy Award-winning film this year, has used his acceptance speech at the 2024 Academy Awards to condemn Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who he said have been dehumanized by the Zionist regime.

The Turkish Association for Solidarity with Palestine opened on Thursday, July 20, the "Palestine Museum" in Istanbul with the aim of introducing the history and culture of Palestine to the Arab and Muslim communities, the Turkish people and tourists.

Shireen Abu Akleh, a veteran Palestinian journalist, who was murdered in cold blood by Zionist troops’s live armor-piercing bullet, has posthumously received an award for her courage as a journalist.

The Palestinian teacher Abir Qunneibi was awarded the title of creative teacher within the Arab World on Saturday.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has affirmed Palestine’s right to sovereignty over al-Quds, home to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, calling on the international community to force Israel to end its violations in the occupied city.

Veteran Israeli singer, Chanan Yovel, turns down offer to take part in annual Memorial Day ceremony in Knesset due to chaos over judicial reform, labeling the Israeli parliament a "zoon."

Palestinian artist, Abrar Sabbah, who received appreciation for her drawing against the provocative cartoon of the French Charlie Hebdo magazine mocking the earthquake disaster in Turkiye, stated she wanted to convey a message of support for Turkiye, Anadolu Agency reported.

A Palestinian refugee, Muhammad Khalil Al-Ali, 23, from the village of Keikat in Akka, who grew up in the Lebanese Burj Al-Barajneh refugee camp, has successfully developed a camera that records videos underwater, and can be used in scientific research, movies and more.

Farha is a Jordanian historical film about a Palestinian girl's coming-of-age experience during the Nakba, the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homeland.

More than 70 artists announced that they were going on strike calling on Finland's Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma to sever ties with a billionaire art collector whose wealth has been accumulated through defence contracts with Israel, Hyperallergic reported.

Middle East Monitor’s flagship annual literary awards ceremony – the Palestine Book Awards (PBA) – has entered its 11th year today, as awards were handed out to the winning authors and books in the much-awaited event

The Palestinian student Sarah Abu Rashid received 1.2 million USD as an academic excellence award from Harvard University in Cambridge city in the USA.

Israeli media on Saturday attacked the French writer Annie Ernaux after the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to her last Thursday.

Fifteen mosques have been attacked by the Israeli occupation forces and Jewish settlers since the start of 2022, Palestinian official sources revealed Thursday.

A committee representing the Palestinian cinematic sector workers today nominated the Palestinian film ‘Mediterranean Fever’ for the Oscar race.

Amnesty International UK announced a new line of merchandise titled "End Israeli Apartheid."

International film-makers have joined calls for the Doc Edge international documentary film festival to cut ties with the Israeli Embassy, saying its funding amounts to propaganda to whitewash “abhorrent crimes and justify apartheid”.

The painting exhibition entitled "Holy Quds, the Eternal Capital of Palestine" was held at the University of Religions and Denominations, located in Qom city.

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a mosque in the Naqab desert city of Rahat which is believed to be one of the oldest in the world.

The first group of pilgrims left the Gaza Strip yesterday through the Rafah Crossing heading to Saudi Arabia.

Sccotish musicians have backed a campaign to twin Edinburgh with Gaza City, with four acts due to perform at a charity gig in support of the move next month.

Abdelghafour kept his father and grandfather's items including scythes, hammers, scales, saws, chisels, and coffee grinders.

People in the Gaza Strip will mark this year’s Eid al-Fitr holiday for the 16th time under the Israeli blockade.

Carved out of limestone and 22-centimetres long, the 2500 BC statuette was found by a farmer working his land in Khan Younis.

We condemn the Israeli occupation supreme court's ruling to limit the number of Christians allowed to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for the Easter Fire ceremony on Saturday to only 4,000.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a letter to Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett requesting that he authorise the transfer of control of the Church of Saint Alexander Nevsky in the Christian Quarter of occupied East Al-Quds to Moscow.

Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid says she is being silenced by Instagram whenever she posts anything about Palestine, Anadolu Agency reports.

A children's painting event with the theme of the holy city of al-Quds as the eternal capital of Palestine was held Friday in Tehran.

Israel Prize winner in mathematics and computer science Professor Oded Goldreich will be donating his prize money to five left-wing human rights organisations.

Palestinian Authority's Foreign Minister Riyad Malki welcomed the adoption of two resolutions on Palestine by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

For Palestinians, Land Day presents an opportunity not only to mark a past event, but also to think about the future, and more ways to resist Israel's occupation, theft and colonisation of their land.

Kareem Dennis, known by his stage name Lowkey, has been subject to attacks for his pro-Palestine stance since the start of his career.

Edinburgh City Council formally announced on 23 March that it will discuss a petition calling for the twinning of Gaza with Edinburgh.

Supermodel Bella Hadid doubled down on her criticism of Israel in her cover story for Vogue magazine’s April issue, when asked about accusations of antisemitism for participating in a rally that called for the end of the Jewish state.

Vogue magazine has erased Palestine from its Instagram post reporting on supermodel Gigi Hadid's announcement that she will donate her earnings from the Fall 2022 Fashion Week shows "to aid those suffering from the war in Ukraine, as well as continuing to support those experiencing the same in Palestine."

Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, planted two saplings on the occasion of National Tree Planting Day and Natural Resources Week.

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, planted tree saplings this Sunday morning, March 6, 2022, on the occasion of National Tree Planting Day and Natural Resources Week.

The National Library of Palestine received the first collection of rare historical photographs belonging to the Japanese photographer, Ryuichi Hirokawa, which documented Palestine since 1967.

When US prosecutors struck a deal with a hedge-fund billionaire to surrender 180 stolen artifacts to their places of origin, they insisted victims of his plunder would see "justice".

Group say they are appalled by university’s attempt to force out gallery director.

The 30-episode series, titled "Fist of the Free," presents the fighters as heroes outwitting a better-armed Israeli military.

Mohammed Al-Thalathini, a Gaza-based photographer, has won the Pictures of the Year 2021 Award.

A bookshop destroyed in Israel's airstrikes is to reopen after being helped by a Leicestershire business.

Stanford University has announced that Bassam Dally, a Palestinian-Australian academic, has been listed among the 2% of scientists worldwide.

Kuwait has banned the screening of American movie Death on the Nile, adapted from a namesake novel by Agatha Christie and starring Israeli actress Gal Gadot, authorities say.

The festival, which wraps up on Sunday, has endured weeks of negative publicity and withdrawals by dozens of acts including comedians Judith Lucy and Nazeem Hussain as well as TV personality Yumi Stynes and Indigenous theatre troupe Marrugeku.

As part of its campaign to stop US financial support for the Israeli occupation, If Americans Knew launched a short film documenting the Israeli killing of 77 Palestinian children in 2021.

Some 20 students in the first and second year at a credit-based high school in this west Japan city with only a department of international studies interacted online with children in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, on Jan. 18 as part of peace education.

A Gaza TV studio of Hamas is being used to shoot a "pro-resistance" television series on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

American actress Susan Sarandon has once again reiterated her support for Palestine and the Palestinians.

A coalition of pro-Palestinian artists and others have withdrawn their participation from the 2022 Sydney Festival, and are calling for a boycott of the event over its ties to Israel.

The city where Christians believe Jesus was born is usually a focal point of the holiday, with thousands packing the streets and filling the hotels.

In a significant challenge to Israel lobby efforts, a major Canadian academic association has rejected a definition of anti-Semitism that conflates criticism of Israel with anti-Jewish bigotry.

Anchilee Scott-Kemmis, who is representing Thailand at Miss Universe, was seen visiting the Al-Aqsa compound ahead of the pageant which Palestinians are urging to boycott due to it taking place in Israel.

Greek contestant Rafaele Plastira has officially announced her withdrawal from Miss Universe pagent that’s set to held in palestine occupied teritroies, saying that she can’t go up on stage and act like nothing’s happening.

A group of Palestinian and international musicians called in a statement for a total boycott of Israel’s now annual ‘oud festival’ in occupied Al-Quds and stand against normalization with a regime aiming to colonize Palestine’s capital in its entirety.

MEMO Publishers’ book "No Way to Gaza: A Chronicle of Adventure and Fraud Under the Egyptian Blockade," has been translated into Portuguese.