Month: November 2024
Gaza’s top Islamic scholar issues fatwa criticising 7 October attack
The most prominent Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a rare, powerful fatwa condemning Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which triggered the devastating war in the Palestinian territory. Professor Dr Salman al-Dayah, a former dean of the Faculty of Sharia and Law at the Hamas-affiliated Islamic University of Gaza, is one of the…
Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
Our solar system used to have nine planets. Astronomer Mike Brown, also known as “the man who killed Pluto,” said he got hate mail from kids and obscene calls at 3 a.m. for years after his most famous finding helped change that. Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, discovered another small world called…
No guarantees Trump will give Netanyahu all he wants
The bar facing the US embassy building in central Jerusalem is called Deja Bu – a witty reference to something you’ve drunk before. And outside the gates of the US compound, Israel is eager for a second round of Donald Trump. “I’m very pleased,” said Rafael Shore, a rabbi who lives in Jerusalem’s Old City….
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