Middle East
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Palestinian presidency says no voting in elections without Jerusalem
Date: 2019-12-26 19:04:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:8245470
RAMALLAH, Dec 26 (MENA) - Palestinian Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudainah on THursday decried calls by some parties on President Mahmoud Abbas to issue a decree on holding legislative and presidential elections, irrespective of whether Israel ....
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Israeli warplanes target posts in besieged Gaza Strip
Date: 2019-12-26 10:00:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8244622
GAZA CITY, Dec 26 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes dawn Thursday launched a series of airstrikes against several posts across the besieged Gaza Strip, causing extensive material damage. WAFA reported that Israeli fighter jets pounded a post located to ....
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5 killed in explosions in Syria's Deir Ezzor
Date: 2019-12-26 08:14:44 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:8244495
LONDON , Dec 26 (MENA) - Five people were killed in a missile attack on sites belonging to Iranian militias in the Deir Ezzor area of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This is the ....
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Israeli settlers storm into Al Aqsa
Date: 2019-12-25 12:26:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:8243475
RAMALLAH, Dec 25 (MENA) - Israeli settlers stormed into Al Aqsa Mosque guarded by Israeli police. As many as 189 Israeli settlers, including 15 students, stormed into the mosque and conducted provocative tours inside it. (MENA) M H K/R E E ....
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Chinese FM: No peace in world with continuation of ME turmoil
Date: 2019-12-24 13:24:18 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:8242408
BEIJING, Dec 24 (MENA) - Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi has stressed the importance of peace in the Middle East to achieve the interests of all world countries. "Peace in the Middle East bears on the fundamental interests of ....
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Israel razes Palestinian lands south of Nablus to expand settlements
Date: 2019-12-24 11:18:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:8242109
RAMALLAH, Dec 24 (MENA) - Israeli bulldozers Tuesday morning razed a large tract of Palestinian land, located to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, in order to expand the nearby illegal Israeli colonial settlements. Ghassan ....
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Netanyahu puts Jordan Valley annexation on hold amid ICC probe
Date: 2019-12-24 10:17:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:8241905
RAMALLAH, Dec 24 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a meeting of an inter-ministerial team intended to discuss the annexation of the Jordan Valley, following a decision by the International Criminal Court to launch a probe ....
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Israel arrests 13 Palestinians from Al Quds
Date: 2019-12-24 08:31:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:8241829
RAMALLAH, Dec 24 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested on Tuesday 13 Palestinians from Al Quds (East Jerusalem) and destroyed a memorial in the occupied city's al-Issawiya neighborhood. Member of the follow up committee in al-Issawiya Raed Abu Riyala ....
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Israel demolishes 2 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem
Date: 2019-12-24 07:45:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:8241823
RAMALLAH, Dec 24 (MENA) - Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday demolished two Palestinian houses in Jabal al-Mukaber neighborhood, southern Jerusalem, Palestinian news agency Wafa quoted local sources as saying. Staff of the so-called Israeli ....
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Israeli settler attacks mother, daughter in Hebron
Date: 2019-12-23 22:59:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:76 - ID:8241670
RAMALLAH, Dec 23 (MENA) - A Palestinian mother and her daughter were injured Monday evening after being attacked by an Israeli settler in Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron city, the southern occupied West Bank, according to Palestine Red Crescent ....