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  • Coronavirus cases in Israel hits 126 -- Health Ministry

    Date: 2020-03-13 08:41:34 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:8351675

    GAZA CITY, March 13 (MENA) - The Israeli Health Ministry announced on Friday that the number of coronavirus cases in Israel hits 126. According to a statement by the ministry, up to 2,479 workers in the health sector were quarantined, the ....

  • COVID-19 cases in Palestinian territories rise to 31

    Date: 2020-03-12 12:39:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:8350768

    RAMALLAH, March 12 (MENA) - A Palestinian woman today tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the occupied territories to 31, WAFA news agency reported Thursday. Government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem announced ....

  • Fifteen Palestinians detained by Israeli army in occupied West Bank, Jerusalem

    Date: 2020-03-12 12:36:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:8350767

    RAMALLAH, March 12 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 15 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). It said three were detained in occupied East Jerusalem, along with one ....

  • Israel's coronavirus cases reach 100, health officials confirm

    Date: 2020-03-12 11:45:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8350543

    RAMALLAH, March 12 (MENA) - Eighteen more people have tested positive for coronavirus bringing the total number of cases in Israel to 100, Ynet quoted health officials as saying on Thursday. The update comes just hours after Prime Minister ....

  • Scores of Israeli settlers storm into archaeological site in north of Nablus

    Date: 2020-03-12 11:36:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8350518

    RAMALLAH, March 12 (MENA) - Head of Sebastia municipality Mohamed Azem said that scores of settlers stormed into the archaeological site in the town north of Nablus guarded by Israel army forces. The archaeological site is closed at the ....

  • Any attempt to falsify history gives legitimacy to no one.. PA spox

    Date: 2020-03-11 20:39:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:8349987

    RAMALLAH, March 11 (MENA) - Any attempt to falsify history and the truth will not give legitimacy to anyone, nor will it change the history of the Palestinian people of Jerusalem, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for Palestinian Authority (PA) ....

  • Israeli forces storm mount south of Nablus, 18 injuries reported

    Date: 2020-03-11 11:10:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:8348852

    RAMALLAH, March 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces Wednesday morning stormed Mount al 'Arma, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, and assaulted Palestinians staging a sit-in atop the mount, injuring 18, said Palestinian medics. Health Ministry medics ....

  • Turkey confirms first coronavirus case

    Date: 2020-03-11 05:26:27 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:8348562

    ANKARA, March 11 (MENA) - Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca confirmed that the first case of the coronavirus had been identified in the country as the epidemic grips neighbors including Iran, the hardest-hit nation after China and Italy, Sky ....

  • OSCE voices concern over detention of Turkish journalists

    Date: 2020-03-10 09:56:17 GMT - Austria - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:8347168

    VIENNA, March 10 (MENA) - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) expressed concern over the frequent arrest of journalists in Turkey, according to a statement issued by the website of the organization. OSCE Representative ....

  • S. Korea mulling sending chartered flight to bring nationals home from Iran

    Date: 2020-03-08 07:31:09 GMT - south korea - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:8343990

    SEOUL, March 8 (MENA) - South Korea is reviewing a plan to send a chartered flight to Iran to bring its citizens home from the coronavirus-hit Islamic country this week, Yonhap news agency reported quoting government officials as saying ....

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