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Tight security measures in Al Quds after stabbing attack

Date: 2019-02-17 08:38:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7807996

RAMALLAH, Feb 17 (MENA) - Main and side streets around a settlement in Al Quds have been closed following a stabbing attack, according to witnesses. Military checkpoints at the entrances of the occupied city have been also brought to a close as ....

Israeli gunboats open fire at Palestinian fishermen off Gaza shores

Date: 2019-02-17 08:30:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7807982

GAZA CITY, Feb 17 (MENA) - Israeli gunboats fired on Sunday at Palestinian fishermen sailing in Khan Youns sea, southern the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said that the fishermen had to return their boats to shore to escape the Israeli machine-gun ....

Israeli forces injure 20 Palestinians at Gaza border

Date: 2019-02-15 18:11:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:7806235

GAZA CITY, Feb 15 (MENA) - At least 20 Palestinians, including a child, were injured by live bullets on Friday as Israeli forces attacked hundreds of protesters at Gaza-Israel border, WAFA quoted the Ministry of Health as saying. The forces fired ....

Tens of Palestinians suffocate during Bil'in anti- separation fence protest

Date: 2019-02-15 14:56:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7805957

RAMALLAH, Feb 15 (MENA) - Tens of Palestinians suffered severe suffocation as a result of Israeli tear gas amidst clashes that broke out with Israeli occupation forces during a protest after Friday Prayers near the west of Ramallah City. Israeli ....

Israeli forces attack Palestinian protesters east of Rafah

Date: 2019-02-14 18:53:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:81 - ID:7805047

GAZA CITY, Feb 14 (MENA) - A Palestinian man was wounded and dozens others suffered gas inhalation after Israeli occupation forces shot live ammunition and fired tear gas canisters toward protesters east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. ....

Mike Pence: Iran is greatest threat to peace and security in ME

Date: 2019-02-14 15:17:04 GMT - Poland - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:7804687

WARSAW, Feb 14 (MENA) - Iran is the “greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East”, US Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday at a conference on the region taking place in Warsaw, Poland. Pence also accused Washington's European ....

Rouhani stresses firm stand vis-a-vis Syrian crisis

Date: 2019-02-14 10:38:45 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7804030

MOSCOW, Feb 14 (MENA) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stressed his country's firm stand vis-a-vis the Syrian crisis ahead of his participation in the Sochi summit on Syria with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep ....

13 Palestinians apprehended from West Bank

Date: 2019-02-14 10:33:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7804084

RAMALLAH, Feb 14 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested on Thursday 13 Palestinians from the West Bank, confiscated two cars in Yata and seized cash money after raiding a village and Al Jalzoun refugee camp in Ramallah. In Hebron, scores of students ....

Pompeo says 'confronting Iran' key to Mideast peace

Date: 2019-02-14 09:17:37 GMT - Poland - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7803967

WARSAW, FEb 14 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the world "can't achieve peace and security in the Middle East without confronting Iran." Pompeo spoke Thursday before the opening session of a Middle East security conference in ....

Suicide attack kills at least 20 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard

Date: 2019-02-13 17:47:41 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:98 - ID:7803513

TEHRAN, Feb 13 (MENA) - A suicide bombing targeting a bus carrying personnel of Iran's elite paramilitary Revolutionary Guard force killed at least 20 people and wounded 20 in the country's southeast, state media reported. There was no immediate ....