Middle East - Welcome to Middle East News Agency

US backs UN meet on Mideast 'early next week'

Date: 2021-05-13 20:52:57 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:107 - ID:8956374

WASHINGTON, May 13 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced support for a Security Council session next week on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis after diplomats said Washington blocked a meeting due Friday. "We're looking at early next ....

Four Palestinians killed, dozens wounded as Israeli onslaught on Gaza escalates

Date: 2021-05-13 19:01:17 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:96 - ID:8956259

GAZA CITY, May 13 (MENA) – Four Palestinians were killed and dozens others wounded on Thursday evening in the northern besieged Gaza Strip amid a relentless escalation of the current Israeli onslaught, according to WAFA correspondent. Israeli ....

Jordanian, Russian FMs discuss escalation in Palestinian territories

Date: 2021-05-13 18:47:18 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:94 - ID:8956270

AMMAN, May 13 (MENA) - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi, on Thursday, along with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed efforts aiming at halting the escalation in holy city of Jerusalem, ....

Palestinian Health Ministry confirms victims asphyxiated from poisonous Israeli gas

Date: 2021-05-13 18:19:07 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:8956191

GAZA CITY, May 13 (MENA) – The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed on Thursday that a number of Palestinians died asphyxiated from poisonous gas emanating from Israeli missiles across the besieged Gaza Strip, WAFA reported. The ministry said ....

China says ready to enhance contacts with int'l community to ease establishing Palestinian state

Date: 2021-05-13 18:07:26 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:8956206

BEIJING, May 13 (MENA) - China voiced its readiness to enhance contacts and coordination with the international community to facilitate the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty on the 1967 borders with East ....

Pakistan appeals to Europe's Muslims to denounce Israeli atrocities

Date: 2021-05-13 17:16:08 GMT - Pakistan - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:8956045

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday appealed to the 65 million Muslims residing in Europe to play an active role and raise their voice against the heinous attacks by Israeli forces on the Palestinians, said ....

Abbas, Macron probe developments in Al Quds, Gaza, WB

Date: 2021-05-13 14:43:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:8955867

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday stressed the need to end the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the forced expulsions of Palestinians from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, said WAFA news agency. Speaking in a ....

Nine Palestinians killed, wounded in fresh Israeli raids on Gaza

Date: 2021-05-13 14:35:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:8955918

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - One Palestinian was killed and eight others were wounded in new Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian news agency WAFA said that Israeli warplanes targeted a group of citizens near Al Nada towers east of ....

US administration dispatches envoy to Middle East amid warnings of 'full scale war’

Date: 2021-05-13 13:48:41 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:8955874

WASHINGTON, May 13 (MENA) – The US administration dispatched a top State Department diplomat to the Middle East "immediately" to try to de-escalate the deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas, USA Today reported. US President Joe Biden faces ....

COVID-19 kills 297 more Iranians over past 24 hours

Date: 2021-05-13 13:41:24 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:8955861

TEHRAN, May 13 (MENA) - The number of deaths from the coronavirus outbreak in Iran has exceeded 76,231, Iran's Health Ministry announced on Thursday. The tally has increased after 297 more Iranians died from the disease in the past 24 hours, IRNA ....