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Palestinian official urges int'l community to guarantee protection to Palestinians

Date: 2019-09-17 13:15:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:8107728

RAMALLAH, Sept 17 (MENA) - Head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s Refugee Affairs Department, Ahmad Abu Houli called on the international community to provide international protection to the Palestinian people and prosecute those who ....

Trilateral summit in Turkey paves way for progress in Syria: Russia’s UN envoy

Date: 2019-09-17 12:07:08 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:8107612

NEW YORK, Sept 17 (MENA) - The trilateral summit of Russia, Iran and Turkey, held Monday, will facilitate efforts aimed at conflict settlement in Syria, Russia’s UN envoy, Vasily Nebenzya, told reporters at the UN headquarters. "Of course, one of ....

Settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque amid Israeli security measures

Date: 2019-09-17 10:49:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8107391

RAMALLAH, Sept 17 (MENA) - Settlers on Tuesday stormed Al Aqsa Mosque from Al Maghareba gate under strict security protection by the Israeli occupation police. According to local sources, many settlers toured the mosque and got an explanation ....

Unidentified jets shell Iranian sites in Al Bukamal

Date: 2019-09-17 10:13:54 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:8107411

LONDON, Sept 17 (MENA) - Unidentified jets launched airstrikes on Iranian sites and centers in Al Bukamal countryside near the Syrian-Iraqi boarders, the Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. This is the second airstrike in September that ....

Iran's supreme guide rules out possibility of Iran-US talks at any level

Date: 2019-09-17 07:19:03 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:8107175

TEHRAN, Sept 17 (MENA) - Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei highlighted that there will be no talks between Iranian and American officials "neither in New York nor anywhere else.", Mehr News Agency reported. Making the ....

Iran destabilizes ME, supports terror groups - NATO chief

Date: 2019-09-16 22:09:50 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:78 - ID:8106985

BRUSSELS, Sept 16 (MENA) - NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Monday he is "extremely concerned" about escalating tensions following strikes on Saudi oil facilities at the weekend, accusing Iran of destabilizing the entire Middle East, France 24 ....

China urges Israel to keep Middle East peace process alive

Date: 2019-09-16 13:54:33 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:8106089

BEIJING, Sept 16 (MENA) - China called on Israel on Monday to keep the Middle East peace process alive, affirming its rejection of unilateral Israeli measures in the region. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying denounced in a ....

Israeli forces detain 19 Palestinians from the West Bank

Date: 2019-09-16 11:06:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:8105916

RAMALLAH, Sept 16 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained early Monday 19 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said in a statement that Israeli soldiers detained seven from ....

Hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner moved to hospital

Date: 2019-09-16 08:59:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:8105603

RAMALLAH, Sept 16 (MENA) - The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said that hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Ramadan Mosharah was moved to a hospital in Israel after a significant deterioration in his health ....

Israel demolishes a house, structures in al-Walaja village in south of West Bank

Date: 2019-09-16 08:28:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:8105481

RAMALLAH, Sept 16 (MENA ) - Israeli forces demolished early Monday a house and two greenhouses and razed a road in the village of al-Walaja, northwest of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wafa reported. Ibrahim Awadallah, an activist in ....