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2 Palestinians injured in Kafr Qaddum

Date: 2020-03-13 19:37:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:8352250

RAMALLAH, March 13 (MENA) - At least two Palestinians, including a journalist, were injured by Israeli occupation forces Friday during the weekly protest against Israeli settlements, in the village of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank, local ....

Death toll in Iran from coronavirus reaches 429: Health official

Date: 2020-03-13 12:38:43 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:8352021

TEHRAN, March 13 (MENA) - Iran reported 75 new deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said, bringing the death toll to 429 in the worst-hit country in the Middle East, US News reported. "We have identified 1,075 new ....

Coronavirus cases in Israel hits 126 -- Health Ministry

Date: 2020-03-13 08:41:34 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:8351675

GAZA CITY, March 13 (MENA) - The Israeli Health Ministry announced on Friday that the number of coronavirus cases in Israel hits 126. According to a statement by the ministry, up to 2,479 workers in the health sector were quarantined, the ....

COVID-19 cases in Palestinian territories rise to 31

Date: 2020-03-12 12:39:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:8350768

RAMALLAH, March 12 (MENA) - A Palestinian woman today tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the occupied territories to 31, WAFA news agency reported Thursday. Government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem announced ....

Fifteen Palestinians detained by Israeli army in occupied West Bank, Jerusalem

Date: 2020-03-12 12:36:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:8350767

RAMALLAH, March 12 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 15 Palestinians in raids across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, said the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS). It said three were detained in occupied East Jerusalem, along with one ....

Israel's coronavirus cases reach 100, health officials confirm

Date: 2020-03-12 11:45:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8350543

RAMALLAH, March 12 (MENA) - Eighteen more people have tested positive for coronavirus bringing the total number of cases in Israel to 100, Ynet quoted health officials as saying on Thursday. The update comes just hours after Prime Minister ....

Scores of Israeli settlers storm into archaeological site in north of Nablus

Date: 2020-03-12 11:36:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8350518

RAMALLAH, March 12 (MENA) - Head of Sebastia municipality Mohamed Azem said that scores of settlers stormed into the archaeological site in the town north of Nablus guarded by Israel army forces. The archaeological site is closed at the ....

Any attempt to falsify history gives legitimacy to no one.. PA spox

Date: 2020-03-11 20:39:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:8349987

RAMALLAH, March 11 (MENA) - Any attempt to falsify history and the truth will not give legitimacy to anyone, nor will it change the history of the Palestinian people of Jerusalem, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the spokesman for Palestinian Authority (PA) ....

Israeli forces storm mount south of Nablus, 18 injuries reported

Date: 2020-03-11 11:10:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:8348852

RAMALLAH, March 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces Wednesday morning stormed Mount al 'Arma, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, and assaulted Palestinians staging a sit-in atop the mount, injuring 18, said Palestinian medics. Health Ministry medics ....

Turkey confirms first coronavirus case

Date: 2020-03-11 05:26:27 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:8348562

ANKARA, March 11 (MENA) - Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca confirmed that the first case of the coronavirus had been identified in the country as the epidemic grips neighbors including Iran, the hardest-hit nation after China and Italy, Sky ....