The Association of Palestinian Scholars, along with Arab and Islamic organizations, institutions and prominent figures, has called for Friday, October 2, 2026, to be declared a “Day of Anger” in support of Aqsa Mosque, amid escalating settler raids and increasingly public Jewish religious rituals inside the Mosque compound during the Jewish holiday season.
The Hamas Movement has called on the international community to fulfill its political, humanitarian, and moral responsibilities and work to hold the Israeli government and its leaders accountable for crimes committed against the Palestinian people, stressing that escalating Israeli attacks will neither break the Palestinians’ will nor force them to abandon their land and holy sites.
The US military completed its withdrawal from Iraq on September 30, with the last troops leaving a base in Erbil under an agreement between Baghdad and Washington to end the US-led military occupation.
Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, has warned that the pattern of destruction and forced displacement seen in Palestine could be repeated in southern Lebanon, calling for international accountability over the Zionist regime’s atrocities.
Palestine has a population density of 2,368 people per square mile, compared to the average of 144.1 people in other countries. Palestine has 11,970 sq ft of land per person and ranks 8th out of 197 countries (most to least densely populated).
Palestine has 0.07% of the world's population and 0.004% of the total land area of all countries.
Iran has warned regional countries about the consequences of the presence of destabilizing actors such as Zionist regime's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on their soils, warning about efforts by the Israeli regime to use the states as platforms to sow regional tensions.
Iran has conveyed its conditions to the United States, but US President Donald Trump is unable to make a decision, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Major General Mohsen Rezaei has said during meeting with Azerbaijan’s deputy prime minister..
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has warned of reciprocal consequences for the countries seeking to disrupt Iran’s oil sales and undermine its security.
Sheltering in damaged homes and tattered tents, displaced Gazans are expecting another winter without adequate protection amid ongoing Zionist regime’s ceasefire violations and tight restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid and vital winterization supplies.
Aqsa Mosque preacher Sheikh Ikrima Sabri said the escalation in incursions during Jewish holidays reflects a more dangerous shift in the nature of attacks on the Mosque, with the expansion of public Jewish rituals and the participation of Israeli officials aimed at turning practices that were once limited into an established reality protected by Zionist regime’s police.
Sayid Marcos Tenório
