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Israel announces closure of Ibrahimi Mosque for two days
Date: 2019-09-29 12:18:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:8123564
RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - Israel announced that the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron will be closed on Monday and Tuesday for Jewish feasts. In a statement on Sunday, the Palestinian Awqaf Ministry's undersecretary slammed the provocative Israeli ....
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Israel renews administrative detention of Palestinian MP for 6 months
Date: 2019-09-29 10:58:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:8123361
RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - The Commission of Detainees Affairs said that Israel's court has renewed administrative detention of ex-Palestinian MP Hassan Youssef for additional six months. The court verdict was issued in less than a week from a ....
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Israeli gunboats open fire at Palestinian fishermen
Date: 2019-09-29 10:47:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:8123362
GAZA CITY, Sept 29 (MENA) - The Israeli navy opened fire at the boats of Palestinian fishermen sailing off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip on Sunday. The Israeli gunboats fired at the fishing boats three miles away from Beit Lahia, ....
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Palestinians slipping deeper into poverty - official
Date: 2019-09-29 10:40:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8123379
GAZA CITY, Sept 29 (MENA) - Palestinian lawmaker Jamal al Khodari said on Sunday that 85 percent of Palestinians are living under the poverty line with an income of $2 per day per capita due to a suffocating Israeli blockade and deteriorating ....
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Israel detains 17 Palestinians from West Bank
Date: 2019-09-29 09:56:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8123264
RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 17 Palestinians from the West Bank on Sunday, including freed prisoners. The forces detained four Palestinians from Jenin, nine from Nablus, three from Bethlehem and one from Tulkarm, Palestinian ....
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Scores of settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque compound
Date: 2019-09-29 07:29:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:8123131
RAMALLAH, Sept 29 (MENA) - Scores of settlers broke on Sunday into the compound of Al Aqsa Mosque, where they conducted provocative tours under protection of Israeli occupation troops, according to witnesses. They stormed the site from ....
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Palestinian activists removed from Dead Sea site by force
Date: 2019-09-28 12:13:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:8122397
RAMALLAH, Sept 28 (MENA) - Several Palestinian and international activists holding a sit-in at a location on the shore of the northern Dead Sea today were assaulted and removed by force by Israeli soldiers, according to witnesses. The activists ....
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President Abbas: If Israel annexes occupied territory, all signed agreements will be terminated
Date: 2019-09-26 19:06:32 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:8120704
NEW YORK, Sept 26 (MENA) - President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated on Thursday that if Israel annexes any part of the occupied West Bank, including the Jordan Valley and the northern Dead Sea, then all signed agreements will be terminated. Speaking ....
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Iran expands uranium enrichment in new breach of nuclear deal - IAEA
Date: 2019-09-26 17:25:20 GMT - Austria - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:8120553
VIENNA, Sept 26 (MENA) - Iran has committed an additional breach of its nuclear deal with major powers by enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges, and plans to install more of those advanced machines than previously announced, a UN nuclear ....
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White House bars Iranian officials from US as its diplomatic efforts falter
Date: 2019-09-26 08:25:10 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8119496
WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (MENA) - The Trump administration barred senior Iranian government officials from entering the United States on Wednesday, just hours after a failed attempt to renew diplomacy with President Hassan Rouhani as he attended an ....