Middle East

Pushing Holocaust denial, Iranian media asserts that Jews carried out "a real holocaust" against Christians on the Yemen border 1,000 years ago.

Saudi lawyer and journalist Osama Yamani claims that Al-Aqsa is located near Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.  

Although the country is in shambles from a decade of civil war that killed a half million people, displaced half the population and wiped out the economy, Hafez Assad's son, Bashar, has an unquestioned grip on what remains.

Fathi Hammad tests positive for the coronavirus on Friday and is put into quarantine. In July, Hammad said: "We must attack every Jew on planet Earth and slaughter and kill them."

Following attack on World War I Remembrance Day ceremony in Jeddah, Prince Mohammed says Saudi Arabia "will continue to hit with an iron fist against anyone who thinks of threatening our security and stability.” Kingdom is committed to confronting extremism, and rejects and condemns all terrorist acts, he says.

Addressing country's Shura Council, Saudi Arabia's King Salman calls on world powers to take a "decisive stance" against Iran's efforts to build up its nuclear and ballistic missiles program. Salman further lashes Islamic Republic for meddling in other countries' affairs, fostering terrorism, and "fanning the flames of sectarianism."

Tributes pour in from former Israeli and American diplomats after Erekat passes away from complications related to the coronavirus at Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center, Tuesday. PA President Mahmoud Abbas laments Erakat's death as "a great loss for Palestine and our people."

Research center finds that, under the patronage of the Iranian Quds Force, Hezbollah's Southern Command and Golan File units have established a military terrorist infrastructure on the Syrian border with Israel, enabling the opening of another front equivalent to the Lebanese front against Israel.

Iman Rahim Mahdavipour claims the Islamic republic also targeted desalination plants inside Israel in early April, in what was a failed attempt to poison the water supply delivered to several central Israeli cities. 

The 65-year-old PA official was diagnosed with coronavirus in early October. Having undergone a lung transplant in 2017, Erekat was at greater risk for complications from the respiratory disease.