Middle East
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Israeli forces arrest 22 Palestinians in West Bank
Date: 2019-04-17 10:49:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7902000
RAMALLAH, April 17 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested 22 Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner Club said. The arrests took place in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Biera, Qalqiliya, Hebron and Al ....
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Israeli forces demolish several houses in Quds, West Bank
Date: 2019-04-17 08:08:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7901749
RAMALLAH, April 17 (MENA) - Israeli bulldozers, backed by occupation forces, demolished a house and a warehouse in Al Quds on Wednesday, claiming they were unlicensed. Citizens engaged in confrontations with Israeli forces while trying to bar ....
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Fire at Aqsa was due to playing fire by children playing -- Officials
Date: 2019-04-16 09:47:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7900083
RAMALLAH, April 16 (MENA) - The Islamic Awqaf and Aqsa Affairs Department in Al Quds said on Tuesday that Monday's fire at part of the mosque was due to children in the area playing around with fire. The department in a statement lauded efforts ....
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Israel captures 12 Palestinians in West Bank
Date: 2019-04-16 09:02:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7899975
RAMALLAH, April 16 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested at dawn on Tuesday 12 Palestinians from various parts of the West Bank, said the Palestine Prisoners Club. The forces detained five from al Quds, two from Hebron, three from Ramallah and Bireh, ....
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New Palestinian gov't has plan to rationalize expenses - spokesman
Date: 2019-04-14 10:30:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:7896787
RAMALLAH, April 14 (MENA) - New Palestinian government spokesman Ibrahim Melhem said the government will take major measures to rationalize expenses. In statements to Voice of Palestine, he said the coming stage will witness grave challenges, not ....
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Iran flood death toll rises to 76
Date: 2019-04-14 09:22:58 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7896682
TEHRAN, April 14 (MENA) - Seventy-six people have been killed in Iran by floods in recent weeks, according to a new toll published Sunday with warnings still in place for large swathes of the country. "With the death of five people in the ....
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Palestinian prisoners enter 7th day of hunger strike
Date: 2019-04-14 09:18:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7896666
RAMALLAH, April 14 (MENA) - About 150 Palestinian prisoners entered on Sunday their seventh day of an open-ended hunger strike which was staged on the back of the failure of talks with the Israel Prison Services (IPS) over the deteriorating ....
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Israel detains Quds governor, 14 others
Date: 2019-04-14 09:09:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7896655
RAMALLAH, April 14 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces have detained 15 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to a local NGO on Sunday. Al-Quds governor Adnan Ghaith is among the detainees, said the Palestinian Prisoners' Club in a ....
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Israel to demolish Palestinian homes in 'Peace Forest'
Date: 2019-04-14 08:32:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7896560
RAMALLAH, April 14 (MENA) - The homes of hundreds of East Jerusalem Palestinians are slated for destruction after a court rejected an appeal against the demolitions, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. The Jerusalem District Court court ....
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Kuwaiti emir greets Palestinian president over forming new govt
Date: 2019-04-14 08:24:44 GMT - Kuwait - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7896561
KUWAIT CITY, April 14 (MENA) - Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah sent a cable of greetings on Sunday to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over forming the new Palestinian government. In the cable, the Kuwaiti emir wished ....