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Bahrain confirms support for Palestinian rights

Date: 2019-09-24 09:23:41 GMT - Bahrain - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:8116616

ْNEW YORK, Sept 24 (MENA) - Bahrain Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled Bin Ahmed Al Khailfa on Tuesday underlined the importance of coordinating regional and international efforts for empowering the Palestinian people to obtain their rights and live ....

Israeli occupation forces detain 15 Palestinians from West Bank

Date: 2019-09-24 09:22:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8116530

RAMALLAH, Sept 24 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces detained on Tuesday 15 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinians Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said in a statement that Israeli forces detained nine Palestinians ....

Eight Palestinians wounded in clashes with occupation troops

Date: 2019-09-23 14:27:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:8115691

RAMALLAH, Sept 23 (MENA) - At least eight Palestinians sustained rubber-coated steel bullet injuries and suffocation during clashes that broke out with Israeli forces at the northern entrance to al-Bireh in Ramallah, said WAFA news agency. Dozens ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry summons Australian diplomat over pro-Israel remarks

Date: 2019-09-23 13:02:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:8115394

RAMALLAH, Sept 23 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry summoned on Monday an Australian diplomat over the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s remarks in favor of Israel, said WAFA news agency. Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry, ....

Saudi Arabia stresses Palestinians' right to regain all their occupied territories

Date: 2019-09-23 11:43:50 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:8115334

RIYADH/GENEVA, Sept 23 (MENA) - The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has renewed its condemnation and rejection of the Israeli Prime Minister's recent declaration of his intention to annex lands from the occupied West Bank in 1967, if he wins the elections, ....

Three Palestinian detainees continue hunger strike

Date: 2019-09-23 11:11:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8115224

RAMALLAH, Sept 23 (MENA) - The Palestinian Detainees’ Committee has reported, Monday, that three detainees in Israeli prisons are ongoing with hunger strikes after one detainee ended his strike a day earlier following an agreement for his release, ....

Iran releases UK-flagged tanker after two-month standoff

Date: 2019-09-23 11:03:58 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:8115295

TEHRAN, Sept 23 (MENA) - The British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero is "free to leave," Iranian officials said Monday, marking the end of a two-month standoff between Tehran and London over the detained vessel. Iran's government spokesperson, ....

Boris Johnson says UK believes Iran responsible for Saudi Arabia oil attack

Date: 2019-09-23 08:46:28 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:8114950

LONDON, Sept 23 (MENA) - The UK now believes Iran was responsible for a major attack earlier this month on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, Boris Johnson has said, also raising the possibility that the British military could become involved in helping ....

Israeli gunboats open fire at Palestinian fishermen in northern Gaza

Date: 2019-09-23 08:45:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8114949

GAZA CITY, Sept 23 (MENA) - Israeli gunboats opened fire on Palestinian fishermen west of Beit Lahia city in the Gaza Strip, with no casualties reported, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) said in a statement on Monday. Israeli ....

Zarif: Whoever starts war will not be the one who finishes it

Date: 2019-09-22 09:55:49 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8113702

TEHRAN, Sept 22 (MENA) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said any country that starts a war against Iran “will not be the one who finishes it” as he said the U.S. is "posturing" by sending troops and defense equipment to Saudi ....