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Israeli police shut down Bab al-'Amud in Old City of Al Quds

Date: 2019-03-28 11:38:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:7869822

RAMALLAH, March 28 (MENA) - Israeli police shut down Bab al-'Amud (Damascus Gate), which is one of the main entrances to the Old City of the occupied Al Quds, for the third straight day. Palestinian sources said that this is the third time, the ....

Israeli army bulldozers storm into southern Gaza

Date: 2019-03-28 11:27:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:7869731

GAZA CITY, March 28 (MENA) - A number of Israeli military vehicles stormed into eastern Rafah in southern the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Four army bulldozers pushed deep inside eastern Rafah and started scooping up the lands of some Palestinian ....

Syrian army defenses intercept some Israeli missiles targeting Aleppo

Date: 2019-03-27 22:53:07 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:7869492

DAMASCUS, March 27 (MENA) - Syrian army air defenses intercepted an Israeli air aggression that targeted a number of industrial sites in Sheikh Najar industrial region to the north-eastern side of Aleppo and downed a number of hostile missiles, a ....

Israel detains 30 Palestinians from West Bank

Date: 2019-03-27 10:25:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7868283

RAMALLAH, March 27 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 30 Palestinians on Wednesday from the West Bank. The forces detained 10 Palestinians from western Ramallah and seven others from northern Ramallah. In Bethlehem, the forces detained three ....

Palestinian youth killed in clashes in southern Bethlehem

Date: 2019-03-27 09:32:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7868113

RAMALLAH, March 27 (MENA) - A 21-year-old Palestinian youth succumbed to his wounds during clashes with Israeli forces at dawn on Wednesday at Dheisheh Refugee Camp in southern Bethlehem. Sajed Abdel Hakim was shot by the Israeli forces while ....

Settlers break into Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2019-03-27 08:32:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7868054

RAMALLAH, March 27 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed al Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday guarded by Israeli police. The settlers made provocative tours inside the mosque, eyewitnesses said. The occupation forces were deployed around the ....

Four Palestinians injured by Israeli bullets in Bethlehem

Date: 2019-03-27 07:55:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7867997

RAMALLAH, March 27 (MENA) - Four Palestinians were injured on Wednesday during clashes with Israeli occupation forces in Deheisha refugee camp south of Bethlehem in southern West Bank. Meanwhile, three Palestinians were detained during the ....

China: Two-state solution fundamental to resolving Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Date: 2019-03-27 07:41:58 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7867954

BEIJING, March 27 (MENA) - China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Wu Haitao said China wishes to stress once again that a two-state solution is the fundamental solution to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and any new ....

Syria requests UN Security Council meeting on Golan

Date: 2019-03-27 07:35:35 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7867952

NEW YORK, March 27 (MENA) - Syria has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold an urgent meeting on the US decision to recognize the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Monday in which the ....

OIC condemns US Golan move

Date: 2019-03-26 16:17:36 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:7867428

JEDDAH, MArch 26 (MENA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned on Tuesday US President Donald Trump's recognition of the Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The decision is a bid to legitimize the ....