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Palestine TV cameraman injured during an Israeli army raid of Ramallah neighborhood

Date: 2019-10-03 11:31:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:8129363

RAMALLAH, Oct 3 (MENA) - A Palestine TV cameraman was injured today by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli soldiers during an army raid on al-Tireh neighborhood in Ramallah to arrest a local resident, WAFA quoted witnesses as saying. Israeli forces ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns Israeli escalation of storming to Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2019-09-30 11:51:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8124852

RAMALLAH, Sept 30 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Monday condemned the Israeli authorities, extremist Jews and Jewish groups for their recurrent storming of Aqsa Mosque precincts with the participation of ....

Nine Palestinians detained from various areas in West Bank

Date: 2019-09-30 08:43:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8124505

RAMALLAH, Sept 30 (MENA) - The Israeli forces on Monday detained seven Palestinians from various areas in the West Bank. Two of the detainees, including a father and his son, are from occupied East Jerusalem and two others from the Bethlehem ....

Iran's oil sector on 'full alert' against attacks

Date: 2019-09-29 16:17:01 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:8123946

TEHRAN, Sept 29 (MENA)- Iran's oil minister on Sunday ordered his country's energy sector to be on high alert to the threat of "physical and cyber" attacks. "it is necessary for all companies and installations of the oil industry to be on full ....

Palestine slams Israeli's suppression of peaceful protests

Date: 2019-09-29 12:25:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:8123593

RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned Israeli forces' suppression of Palestinian activists who partook in peaceful protests against the occupation and their racist measures against Palestinians In a press release ....

Israel announces closure of Ibrahimi Mosque for two days

Date: 2019-09-29 12:18:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8123564

RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - Israel announced that the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron will be closed on Monday and Tuesday for Jewish feasts. In a statement on Sunday, the Palestinian Awqaf Ministry's undersecretary slammed the provocative Israeli ....

Israel renews administrative detention of Palestinian MP for 6 months

Date: 2019-09-29 10:58:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:8123361

RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - The Commission of Detainees Affairs said that Israel's court has renewed administrative detention of ex-Palestinian MP Hassan Youssef for additional six months. The court verdict was issued in less than a week from a ....

Israeli gunboats open fire at Palestinian fishermen

Date: 2019-09-29 10:47:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:8123362

GAZA CITY, Sept 29 (MENA) - The Israeli navy opened fire at the boats of Palestinian fishermen sailing off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip on Sunday. The Israeli gunboats fired at the fishing boats three miles away from Beit Lahia, ....

Palestinians slipping deeper into poverty - official

Date: 2019-09-29 10:40:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8123379

GAZA CITY, Sept 29 (MENA) - Palestinian lawmaker Jamal al Khodari said on Sunday that 85 percent of Palestinians are living under the poverty line with an income of $2 per day per capita due to a suffocating Israeli blockade and deteriorating ....

Israel detains 17 Palestinians from West Bank

Date: 2019-09-29 09:56:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8123264

RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 17 Palestinians from the West Bank on Sunday, including freed prisoners. The forces detained four Palestinians from Jenin, nine from Nablus, three from Bethlehem and one from Tulkarm, Palestinian ....