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  • Palestinian wounded in northern Gaza Strip

    Date: 2019-12-29 13:02:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:8247914

    RAMALLAH, Dec 29 (MENA) - A Palestinian man was wounded by Israeli forces in eastern Beit Hanoun in northern the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian sources said. The wounded sustained two rubber-coated bullets, one in the hand and the other in the ....

  • Palestine committed to backing families of detainees, martyrs: advocacy group

    Date: 2019-12-29 11:40:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8247717

    RAMALLAH, Dec 29 (MENA) - The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reiterated Palestine's firm stance in face of abusive policies of the Israeli occupation that target looting the funds and assets of the Palestinian people, ....

  • Israel: Netanyahu wins landslide in battle for Likud party leadership

    Date: 2019-12-27 09:11:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:8245660

    RAMALLAH, Dec 27 (MENA) - Benjamin Netanyahu has won a landslide victory in a primary election for leadership of the ruling Likud party in Israel, The Guardian reported on Friday. Official results announced early on Friday showed Netanyahu ....

  • Palestinian presidency says no voting in elections without Jerusalem

    Date: 2019-12-26 19:04:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:8245470

    RAMALLAH, Dec 26 (MENA) - Palestinian Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudainah on THursday decried calls by some parties on President Mahmoud Abbas to issue a decree on holding legislative and presidential elections, irrespective of whether Israel ....

  • Israeli warplanes target posts in besieged Gaza Strip

    Date: 2019-12-26 10:00:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8244622

    GAZA CITY, Dec 26 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes dawn Thursday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage. WAFA reported that Israeli fighter jets pounded a post located to ....

  • 5 killed in explosions in Syria's Deir Ezzor

    Date: 2019-12-26 08:14:44 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:8244495

    LONDON , Dec 26 (MENA) - Five people were killed in a missile attack on sites belonging to Iranian militias in the Deir Ezzor area of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This is the ....

  • Israeli settlers storm into Al Aqsa

    Date: 2019-12-25 12:26:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:8243475

    RAMALLAH, Dec 25 (MENA) - Israeli settlers stormed into Al Aqsa Mosque guarded by Israeli police. As many as 189 Israeli settlers, including 15 students, stormed into the mosque and conducted provocative tours inside it. (MENA) M H K/R E E ....

  • Chinese FM: No peace in world with continuation of ME turmoil

    Date: 2019-12-24 13:24:18 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:8242408

    BEIJING, Dec 24 (MENA) - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has stressed the importance of peace in the Middle East to achieve the interests of all world countries. "Peace in the Middle East bears on the fundamental interests of ....

  • Israel razes Palestinian lands south of Nablus to expand settlements

    Date: 2019-12-24 11:18:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:8242109

    RAMALLAH, Dec 24 (MENA) - Israeli bulldozers Tuesday morning razed a large tract of Palestinian land, located to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, in order to expand the nearby illegal Israeli colonial settlements. Ghassan ....

  • Netanyahu puts Jordan Valley annexation on hold amid ICC probe

    Date: 2019-12-24 10:17:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8241905

    RAMALLAH, Dec 24 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a meeting of an inter-ministerial team intended to discuss the annexation of the Jordan Valley, following a decision by the International Criminal Court to launch a probe ....

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