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  • Israeli gunboats open fire at Palestinian fishermen in Gaza waters

    Date: 2019-04-30 09:13:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7922289

    GAZA CITY, April 30 (MENA) - Israeli gunboats on Tuesday morning opened machine-gun fire at Palestinian fishermen and their boats six nautical miles off the northern coast of Gaza City, with no injuries reported. According to eyewitnesses, ....

  • Chinese envoy appeals for adherence to two-state solution in Mideast peace process

    Date: 2019-04-30 06:38:57 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:7922147

    BEIJING, April 30 (MENA) - China's envoy to the UN has asked the international community to stick to the two-state solution in addressing the Palestinian-Israeli issue, and warned against unilateral action that escalates tension in the region, ....

  • Abbas: Palestine won't accept incomplete clearance revenues from Israel

    Date: 2019-04-29 13:18:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:7921337

    RAMALLAH, April 29 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinian Authority (PA) will not accept the clearance revenues from Israel if they are incomplete, WAFA reported on Monday He made this statement at the opening of a ....

  • Palestinian premier off to Brussels for international donors’ meeting

    Date: 2019-04-29 10:14:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7921126

    RAMALLAH, April 29 (MENA) - Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh heads to Brussels later Monday to attend a meeting for the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) of donor countries scheduled to start tomorrow. Foreign Minister Riyad Malki told Voice of ....

  • Israel fires at Palestinian farmers in Gaza

    Date: 2019-04-29 09:15:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7921075

    GAZA CITY, April 29 (MENA) - Israeli forces fired at Palestinian farmers in Al Shojayea area in east Gaza on Monday. None was harmed, eyewitnesses said. Since 2005, Israeli forces have been illegally redeployed outside the Gaza Strip imposing ....

  • Palestinian PM, Norwegian envoy mull donors’ conference agenda

    Date: 2019-04-28 21:49:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:7920868

    RAMALLAH, April 28 (MENA) - Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh discussed on Sunday with Norwegian envoy on the Middle East peace process Tor Veneland the agenda of an internatiinal donors’ conference, set to be held in Brussels by the end ....

  • Syrian army attacks terrorist groups in Idlib countryside

    Date: 2019-04-28 10:11:12 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7919896

    DAMASCUS, April 28 (MENA) - Units of the Syrian army have targeted sites of terrorists of Nusra Front and affiliated groups in the southern countryside of Idlib, the state news agency, SANA, reported on Sunday. In retaliation for repeated ....

  • Israel to release Syrian prisoners after return of Israeli soldier's body

    Date: 2019-04-27 09:39:14 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7918477

    GAZA CITY, April 27 (MENA) - A senior official confirmed Saturday that Israel will release two Syrian prisoners after the return earlier this month of the remains of an Israeli soldier lost in a 1982 battle, the Times of Israel reported. The ....

  • Israeli forces target Palestinian fishermen, farmers in Gaza Strip

    Date: 2019-04-27 08:57:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7918413

    GAZA CITY, April 27 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation forces on Saturday opened fire heavily on Palestinian fishermen and farmers in the Gaza Strip. Israeli gunboats randomly fired at boats of Palestinian fishermen off the coasts of northwestern ....

  • EU missions in Jerusalem, Ramallah concerned over Israeli demolition of Palestinian property in East Jerusalem

    Date: 2019-04-26 14:59:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:7917706

    RAMALLAH, April 26 (MENA) - The European Union Representative and EU missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah noted with grave concern the demolition by Israeli authorities of Palestinian property in the Wadi Yasul area of the Silwan neighborhood in East ....

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