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Israeli settlers, army, attack school near Nablus

Date: 2019-02-10 13:59:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:7797746

RAMALLAH, Feb 10 (MENA) - The school administration at Orif Secondary school, in the village of Orif, southwest of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, was forced to evacuate students after being attacked by Israeli settlers and army, said a local ....

Israeli forces apprehend 9 Palestinians in WB

Date: 2019-02-10 12:07:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:7797755

RAMALLAH, Feb 10 (MENA) - Israeli forces last night and early Sunday detained nine Palestinians from various areas in the occupied West Bank (WB), according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), WAFA news agency reported. The PPS said in a ....

Fatah warns of Israeli calls for killing Abbas

Date: 2019-02-10 11:33:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:7797540

RAMALLAH, Feb 10 (MENA) - Palestinian group Fatah warned of calls by Israeli settlers to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The movement considered this a natural outcome of the Israeli apartheid policy against the ....

US invites PA officials to Warsaw Mideast meeting

Date: 2019-02-08 19:04:25 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:7795432

WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (MENA) - A senior US official said Friday Palestinian officials have been invited to a US conference on the Middle East hosted by Poland's Warsaw next week, Alhurra reported. The meeting will not be "a negotiation but a ....

Israeli forces kill two teens at Gaza border

Date: 2019-02-08 18:02:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:7795366

GAZA CITY, Feb 8 (MENA) - Two Palestinians, one of them a minor, were killed and 18 others injured on Friday as Israeli forces continued to attack the Great March of Return protests at Gaza-Israel border, WAFA quoted the Palestinian Ministry of ....

Palestinian killed, 16 others injured by Israeli forces in eastern Gaza

Date: 2019-02-08 16:34:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:7795226

GAZA CITY, Feb 8 (MENA) - A Palestinian kid was killed, 16 others wounded by live ammunition and gas inhalation during Israeli forces' suppression of Palestinian peaceful marches in eastern Gaza Strip. According to local medical sources on ....

Israel fires at Palestinian fishermen, farmers in Gaza Strip

Date: 2019-02-08 12:00:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7794714

GAZA CITY, Feb 8 (MENA) - Israeli forces opened fire on Friday at Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Israeli forces fired at the agricultural lands in Al-Fakhari neighborhood in Khan ....

Israeli forces set up military roadblocks northern WB

Date: 2019-02-08 11:16:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7794644

RAMALLAH, Feb 8 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation forces set up on Friday a number of military roadblocks and intensified its presence in the south of Jenin city in northern West Bank. The Israeli forces as well checked the IDs of citizens and ....

Russia says not planning to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem

Date: 2019-02-08 09:55:07 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7794531

MOSCOW, Feb 8 (MENA) - Russia is not going to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, Russian Ambassador to the country Anatoly Viktorov said in an interview with TASS news agency. "The issue of transferring the Russian embassy from Tel Aviv to ....

US vows to be 'relentless' as Iran unveils underground ballistic missile plant

Date: 2019-02-08 08:30:34 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7794436

WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (MENA) - US State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino has called to address what he described as "Iran's blatant disregard for international norms", Sputnik news Agency reported on Friday. This came after Iran has ....