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Palestine's PM lauds European Court ruling on Israeli settlement products

Date: 2019-11-12 20:32:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:8185169

RAMALLAH, Nov 12 (MENA) - Palestinian Prime Minister Mohamed Shtayyeh lauded the European Court of Justice's ruling, which obligates Israel to give a separate label to products made in Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank. In press ....

Turkey court orders rearrest of journalist Ahmet Altan

Date: 2019-11-12 19:43:54 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:8185124

ANKARA, Nov 12 (MENA) - A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of prominent journalist Ahmet Altan just a week after his release from prison over alleged links to the failed 2016 coup, France 24 reported. Altan and another veteran ....

EU urges stopping escalations in Gaza Strip

Date: 2019-11-12 14:05:15 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:8184568

BRUSSELS, Nov 12 (MENA) - The European Union (EU) on Tuesday urged immediate and comprehensive stopping of escalation in the Palestinian Gaza Strip which has seen Israeli air raids on one hand and rocket firing from the strip against Israel on the ....

OIC slams Israeli aggression against Gaza

Date: 2019-11-12 14:03:38 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:8184581

RIYADH, Nov 12 (MENA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, saying it is a blatant violation of international law and conventions. The OIC held the Israeli occupation ....

Palestinian FM welcomes EU court's decision on labeling Israel's settlements' products

Date: 2019-11-12 13:08:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:8184403

RAMALLAH, Nov 12 (MENA) - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki welcomed on Tuesday the European Court of Justice's decision on obliging the EU countries to identify products made in Israeli settlements in the West Bank or Golan Heights on ....

Palestinian presidency denounces Israeli crimes in Gaza

Date: 2019-11-12 11:39:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:8184311

RAMALLAH, Nov 12 (MENA) - The Palestinian Presidency on Tuesday denounced the continued Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip which left three Palestinians dead including a man and his wife while their children were injured ....

Palestinian killed in Israeli strike north of Gaza, third since morning

Date: 2019-11-12 11:36:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8184247

GAZA CITY, Nov 12 (MENA) - A Palestinian was killed on Tuesday and seven others were injured in the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources. This makes him the third Palestinian killed in Gaza in Israeli strikes ....

Israeli jets target agricultural lands in Gaza

Date: 2019-11-12 10:01:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:8184000

GAZA CITY, Nov 12 (MENA) - Israeli jets targeted agricultural lands on Tuesday east Gaza and north the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said there were no reports of casualties after the Israeli air raids that caused material damage to the targeted lands ....

National Resistance Brigades shell Israeli settlement of Sderot

Date: 2019-11-12 09:41:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:8184036

GAZA CITY, Nov 12 (MENA) - The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, announced its responsibility for the shelling of the Israeli settlement of Sderot on Tuesday. In a statement ....

Israeli police arrest Al Aqsa Mosque guard

Date: 2019-11-12 08:59:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:8184006

RAMALLAH, Nov 12 (MENA) - Israeli police arrested on Tuesday a security guard at Al Aqsa Mosque compound and took him to a police station for questioning. The guard, Ehab Abu Ghazala, was detained once before by the Israeli police under the ....