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Iran's Fordow nuclear plant ready for 20% enrichment: Director

Date: 2019-11-13 11:31:22 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:8185758

TEHRAN, Nov 13 (MENA) - Director of Iran's Fordow nuclear facility said the plant is ready for 20% uranium enrichment when the need arises, adding that the enrichment machines are active and some more will come on stream in the near future, Mehr ....

SDF commander: Turkey encourages environment for Daesh resurgence

Date: 2019-11-13 10:28:43 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8185625

DAMASCUS, Nov 13 (MENA) - Another Daesh terrorist attack in a Western city is "expected" because of the West's inaction and indifference in the Middle East region, the top Kurdish commander in Syria has warned. General Mazloum Kobane, commander of ....

Israel seizes more Palestinian lands in Bethlehem

Date: 2019-11-13 09:47:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:8185518

RAMALLAH, Nov 13 (MENA) - Israeli authorities Wednesday issued military orders to seize more Palestinian lands for military purposes in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, said a local settlement watchdog. Hasan Brijiyeh, a local ....

Four Palestinians killed in new Israeli raids on Gaza

Date: 2019-11-13 09:42:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:8185553

GِAZA, Nov 13 (MENA) - Four Palestinians were killed in new Israeli raids and missile strikes on Gaza on Wednesday morning, raising the death toll so far to 16 since Tuesday morning, Wafa News Agency reported. Medics confirmed that three ....

Palestinian killed in Israeli shelling on Gaza

Date: 2019-11-13 09:13:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:8185386

GAZA CITY, Nov 13 (MENA) - A Palestinian was killed on Wednesday and others injured as Israel renewed its shelling of Palestinian houses and agricultural lands in the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said Alaa Ishtewi, 32, was killed when Israeli ....

Israeli occupation forces demolish house in Tubas governorate in WB

Date: 2019-11-13 08:54:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:8185361

RAMALLAH, Nov 13 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday demolished a house under construction in Tubas governorate in northern the West Bank under a pretext of being unlicensed. A Palestinian official in charge of settlement file in Al ....

Palestinian Jihad field commander killed in Israeli shelling in Gaza

Date: 2019-11-13 08:46:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:8185377

GAZA CITY, Nov 13 (MENA) - A field commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement was killed in an Israeli raid on Wednesday. Al Quds Brigades, the movement's military wing, said in a statement that 38-year-old Khaled Ma'awad Farrag was ....

Around 250 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel since Tuesday morning

Date: 2019-11-13 07:02:09 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:8185324

GAZA CITY, Nov 13 (MENA) - Around 250 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel since Tuesday morning, the Israeli occupation army announced. Around 90 percent of the rockets were intercepted, according to the Israeli army. The ....

3 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza, taking death toll to 10

Date: 2019-11-12 23:02:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:99 - ID:8185187

GAZA, Nov 12 (MENA) - Three more Palestinians were killed this evening in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, bringing the death total to 10, WAFA news agency quoted medical sources as saying. Three men were brought dead to ....

Israeli authorities notify 4 Palestinian prisoners' families to evacuate homes

Date: 2019-11-12 22:52:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:97 - ID:8185195

RAMALLAH, NOV 12 (MENA)- Israeli occupation authorities notified on Tuesday four Palestinian prisoners' families from the town of Beit Kahil, northwest of Hebron, through their lawyer to evacuate their homes within 48 hours. Palestinian security ....