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AL chief urges donor states to bridge UNRWA funding gap

Date: 2020-04-16 18:08:19 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:8398380

CAIRO, April 16 (MENA) - Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit on Thursday urged donor states to fill the UNRWA funding gap to meet basic needs of Palestinians living in refugee camps in the occupied Palestinian territories, Jordan, ....

Iraq summons Turkish ambassador over attack on Kurdish refugee camp

Date: 2020-04-16 14:27:11 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:8397997

BAGHDAD, April 16 (MENA) - The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has slammed Turkey for violating Iraqi airspace and launching a deadly airstrike on one of the refugee camps in the Kurdistan region, Ahmad Al Sahaf, the ministry's spokesman, said on ....

Palestinian UN envoy: Israel manipulating international focus on COVID-19 fight

Date: 2020-04-16 10:56:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:8397346

RAMALLAH/NEW YORK, April 16 (MENA) - Palestinian Authority's Permanent Envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour said Israel is manipulating the international community's focus on the fight against COVID-19 for the implementation of more ....

Syria records 4 new coronavirus cases, total infections stands at 33

Date: 2020-04-15 18:57:22 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:8397118

DAMASCUS, April 15 (MENA) - The Syrian Health Ministry announced on Wednesday four new infections, bringing the total caseload to 33. Out of 33, five cases were recovered and two have died, it added. (MENA) S R E ....

Three new coronavirus cases detected in West Bank

Date: 2020-04-15 09:28:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8396098

RAMALLAH, April 15 (MENA) - Three new coronavirus cases were confirmed in the West Bank on Wednesday, WAFA news agency quoted Palestinian Minister of Health Mai Alkaila as saying. She told the daily briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic that the ....

Turkey's coronavirus death toll rises by 107 to 1,403: health minister

Date: 2020-04-14 19:57:27 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:8395698

ANKARA, April 14 (MENA) - Turkey’s confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 4,062 in the past 24 hours, and 107 more people have died, taking the death toll to 1,403, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Tuesday. The total number of ....

AL chief warns of Israeli intentions to annex Jordan Valley

Date: 2020-04-14 19:26:43 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:8395550

CAIRO, April 14 (MENA) - Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday warned of Israeli intentions to annex occupied Palestinian territories, especially the Jordan Valley and the northern West Bank. Abul Gheit made the remarks ....

Israeli president gives more time for Netanyahu, Gantz to form new government

Date: 2020-04-14 10:55:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:8394713

RAMALLAH, April 14 (MENA) - Israel’s president on Tuesday gave parliament speaker Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 48 more hours to agree on an emergency unity government, said WAFA, the Palestinian news agency. Gantz had ....

10 new coronavirus cases confirmed in West Bank

Date: 2020-04-14 09:13:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8394710

RAMALLAH, April 14 (MENA) - Ten new cases of coronavirus were confirmed today in the West Bank bringing overall total in Palestine, not including occupied Jerusalem, to 284, according to the Palestinian government. Government spokesman Ibrahim ....

11 new fatalities take Israel’s COVID-19 death toll to 117

Date: 2020-04-14 09:06:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:8394638

RAMALLAH, April 14 (MENA) - Eleven people died overnight and during Monday from COVID-19, bringing the coronavirus death toll in Israel to 117, according to WAFA news agency. The Health Ministry on Monday evening updated Israel’s number of ....