Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 02:00 GMT on May 17, 2025.

The fires that swept across the occupied Palestinian territories in recent days, sending settlers fleeing in panic, exposed the pillage of Palestinian lands by Zionists since the Nakba.

Israeli settlers have stormed the compound of al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, in Occupied al-Quds, under protection from the regime’s forces, amid intensified raids in the occupied West Bank.

Mike Huckabee, the newly appointed US Ambassador to the Israeli-occupied territories, in a provocative move, broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque along with Israeli settlers and performed rituals at the Al-Buraq Wall, one day after assuming his post.

Israeli guards shaved part of a Palestinian abductees’ hair and drew the Star of David on his head before his release, in what Palestinian resistance group Hamas said exposes Israel’s “systematic brutality” against Palestinians held illegally in detention.

Hamas says Palestinians are marking the Eid al-Fitr amid ‘brutal Zionist aggression’ and are enduring siege, starvation, killing, and destruction.

Taqwa Ghazawi, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was abducted by Israeli forces in occupied Al-Quds as she left her school. She was charged with drawing and writing Palestinian national slogans.