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  • Report: 3 martyrs, 345 injured among Palestinians in July

    Date: 2019-08-04 11:01:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:8051211

    RAMALLAH, Aug 4 (MENA) - International Relations Department at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) said Sunday that the Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinians and injured as many as 345 persons during the month of July. As ....

  • Scores of settlers storm Aqsa Mosque compound

    Date: 2019-08-04 10:26:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:8051139

    RAMALLAH, Aug 4 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers forced their way into Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Sunday. About 84 Jewish settlers and Israeli occupation policemen, have forced their way into the ....

  • Fighter jet crashes in southern Iran

    Date: 2019-08-04 10:22:45 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:8051163

    TEHRAN, Aug 4 (MENA) - An Iranian Air Force fighter jet crashed near Tangestan County in the southern Iranian province of Bushehr on Sunday noon, Mehr reported. According to Governor of Tangestan Abdol-Hossein Rafieepour, the aircraft crashed at ....

  • Iran seizes foreign vessel for smuggling 700k liters of fuel

    Date: 2019-08-04 10:14:21 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:8051138

    TEHRAN, Aug 4 (MENA) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy seized a foreign vessel near the Farsi Island in the Gulf for carrying 700,000 liters of smuggled fuel, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported. According to an IRGC public ....

  • Fire at Iran oil ministry building put out

    Date: 2019-08-04 09:49:14 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:8051091

    TEHRAN, Aug 4 (MENA) - The main building of the Iranian Oil Ministry on Taleghani Street has been secured after the fire on the 15th floor was put out this morning, according to the Iranian news agency Mehr. An informed source told Mehr ....

  • US should rethink Middle East policy to avoid war with Iran

    Date: 2019-08-04 09:41:37 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8051062

    WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) - The Washington Examiner magazine urged the Trump administration to rethink its Middle East policy to avoid confrontation with Iran. The paper said the US foreign policy should be designed with one constituency in mind: ....

  • US welcomes ceasefire in Syria's Idlib

    Date: 2019-08-04 08:21:43 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8050954

    WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (MENA) - The United States has welcomed news that a ceasefire was declared in Idlib in northwest Syria, but Washington said "what is truly important is that attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure must stop." "We ....

  • Israel demolishes 100 apartments in Wadi al Hummus in July - report

    Date: 2019-08-04 08:04:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:8050933

    RAMALLAH, Aug 4 (MENA) - The Al Quds Center for Palestinian and Israeli studies said Israel demolished 100 apartments in Wadi al Hummus in the occupied Jerusalem in July. A total of 237 apartments received demolition notifications, the center ....

  • 49 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces in Gaza border protests

    Date: 2019-08-02 21:57:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:8049726

    GAZA CITY, Aug 2 (MENA) - At least, 49 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fires along the Gaza Strip borders, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported on Friday. About 24 of them were injured by live bullets as Israeli forces targeted ....

  • Israel plans to set up more than 2,400 settlements in Quds, WB

    Date: 2019-08-02 20:38:30 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:8049686

    GAZA CITY, Aug 2 (MENA) - Israel's Civil Administration is set to advance plans for at least 2,430 new settler homes and to authorize four new outposts as neighborhoods of existing settlements, Peace Now said on Friday. Earlier in the week, ....

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