TEHRAN, May 18 - Muslim leaders have gathered in Turkey for an Islamic summit to discuss Israel’s massacre of dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Israel systematically deprived Palestinians of their human rights, with 1.9 million in Gaza "caged in a toxic slum from birth to death", U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said on Friday.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Kuwait is urging the Security Council to condemn Israel's use of force against Palestinian civilians "in the strongest terms," especially in the Gaza Strip, and to deploy and international force to protect civilians.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has once again censured Israel’s recent massacre of Palestinian protesters in the Gaza Strip, calling on Muslim nations to give “a due response” to the regime’s latest crime.
TEHRAN, May 18 - The Iranian ambassador to Turkey said on Thursday that the World of Islam is more than ever before in need of unity and solidarity to alleviate the sufferings and calamities of the Islamic Ummah.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Palestine will finally be freed from the clutches of enemies and that Jerusalem al-Quds will be the capital of Palestinian state despite US attempts to distort this reality.
TEHRAN, May 17 - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that the United Nations had "collapsed" in the face of events in Gaza where Israeli forces killed 60 Palestinian protesters on Monday as the United States relocated its Israel embassy to Jerusalem.
TEHRAN, May 17 - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday criticized the United Nations for doing nothing in the face of Israeli brutality in the Gaza Strip.
TEHRAN, May 17 - Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo says Israel's Monday massacre of innocent Palestinians is a "day of shame" for the Muslim world.
TEHRAN, May 16 - Pope Francis said Wednesday he was "very worried" by escalating violence in the Middle East after 60 Gazans were shot dead by Israeli troops while protesting the US embassy's move to Jerusalem.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Iranian Health Minister Hassan Hashemi in a letter to head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned on the possibility of the outbreak of human tragedy in Gaza Strip.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Turkey told the Israeli ambassador to Ankara to return to Israel "for some time," sources in the Turkish foreign ministry said on Tuesday, after Israeli forces killed more than 60 Palestinians during protests on the Gaza border.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Thousands of Gaza residents turned out on Tuesday for the funerals of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops a day earlier, while on the Gaza-Israel border, Israeli forces prepared to face the expected final day of a Palestinian protest campaign.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Turkey on Tuesday urged Islamic countries to review their ties with Israel and said it would call an extraordinary summit of the world's main pan-Islamic body after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire on the Gaza border.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Jonathan Rosenhead, chairman of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, likened the recent killings of Palestinians by Israeli troops near Gaza border to the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 in South Africa.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Iran’s top parliamentarian has denounced Israel's killing of dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which coincided with the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem al-Quds, as “a stain of shame” for both Tel Aviv and Washington.