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Israeli occupation forces nab 11 Palestinians from WB

Date: 2019-06-10 10:43:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7973953

RAMALLAH, June 10 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Monday rounded up at least 11 Palestinians, including a woman, from various parts of the West Bank. Media activist in Beit Ummar Mohammad Awad told WAFA that Israeli forces arrested three ....

Iran says EU has failed to salvage 2015 nuclear deal

Date: 2019-06-10 09:15:14 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7973746

TEHRAN, June 10 (MENA) - A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry has criticized the European signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal for failing to salvage the pact after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of it last year and ....

Turkey shells Syria's Tel Rifaat in Aleppo in response to attack on its soldiers

Date: 2019-06-10 08:53:56 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7973750

ANKARA, June 10 (MENA) - The Turkish Defense Ministry on Monday announced that the Turkish army shelled Tel Rifaat area in Aleppo governorate in response to an attack on its soldiers. It said the shelling targeted the positions of the Kurdish ....

Palestine warns of recurrent Israeli intrusions into Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2019-06-09 14:42:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7973141

RAMALLAH, June 9 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has accused Israel of exploiting Jewish feasts and ceremonies to build more settlements in the Palestinian territories and break into Al Aqsa Mosque. In a press statement on Sunday, the ....

Palestinian prisoner continues hunger strike for 69 days

Date: 2019-06-09 10:55:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7972690

RAMALLAH, June 9 (MENA) - Held in administrative detention in Israeli prisons, Palestinian detainee Hassan Awawi completed 69 days of open hunger strike and is confirmed to continue as a form of protest against detention, said the Palestinian ....

Samaritans make pilgrimage to Mt. Gerizim

Date: 2019-06-09 10:13:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7972607

RAMALLAH, June 9 (MENA) - Dozens of Samaritans performed their annual pilgrimage Sunday morning to Mount Gerizim in the West Bank city of Nablus. Samaritans perform the ritual every year to commemorate the Exodus of the Beni Israel (“sons of ....

Scores of settlers storm Al Mosque compound

Date: 2019-06-09 09:38:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7972508

RAMALLAH, June 9 (MENA) - Scores of settlers stormed on Sunday Al Aqsa Mosque compound, to mark the so-called Shavuot feast, according to Palestinian sources. They rushed into the site in organized groups entering the site from the Magharabah gate, ....

Palestine mulls lodging complaint with ICC against US amb. remarks

Date: 2019-06-09 09:10:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7972504

RAMALLAH, June 9 (MENA) - Remarks of the US ambassador to Israel in which he claimed Israel has the right to annex some parts of the occupied West Bank has sparked anger among Palestinians. In an interview with the New York Times on Saturday, ....

Israeli soldiers arrest young woman at Qalandia checkpoint

Date: 2019-06-08 13:28:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7971926

RAMALLAH, June 08 (MENA) – Israeli soldiers arrested on Saturday a Palestinian young woman at Qalandia checkpoint on Ramallah-Jerusalem road, under the pretext that she had a knife on her possession, WAFA news agency quoted local sources as ....

Lebanese president: No tolerance with terrorism

Date: 2019-06-08 11:16:48 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7971640

BEIRUT, June 8 (MENA) – Lebanese President Michel Aoun stressed on Saturday that there is no tolerance with terrorism, noting that he will not go easy on those who find justifications for assailants of the state sovereignty and its security ....