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Palestinian gov't: Israel fully responsible for attacks on Gaza

Date: 2018-11-13 07:31:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7667350

RAMALLAH, Nov 13 (MENA) - The Palestinian National Accord Government on Tuesday held Israel occupation forces fully responsible for attacks on residents of the Gaza Strip. In a press statement, Government Spokesman Youssef al Mahmoud said the ....

Israel destroys hotel in Gaza in fresh raid

Date: 2018-11-12 22:38:06 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:104 - ID:7667177

GAZA CITY, Nov 12 (MENA) - A hotel in Gaza City has been destroyed in a fresh Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip, according to witnesses. F-16 jet fighters targeted the five-storey-building with several rockets, razing it to the ground, said the ....

Fresh escalation round in Gaza

Date: 2018-11-12 22:13:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:103 - ID:7667160

GAZA CITY, Nov 12 (MENA) - An Israeli airstrike destroyed Monday Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV building in the Gaza Strip after a series of warning shots. Local sources said Israeli reconnaissance planes fired three missile alerts, before F16 planes ....

Abbas urges int'l community to act to halt Israeli attack on Gaza

Date: 2018-11-12 21:53:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:101 - ID:7667163

RAMALLAH, Nov 12 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has made regional and international contacts in a bid to halt an ongoing Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. The fresh attack on the enclave was decried by Abbas, who arrived in ....

3 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids on Gaza

Date: 2018-11-12 18:16:35 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:93 - ID:7666973

GAZA CITY, Nov 12 (MENA) - Three Palestinians were killed as Israeli airstrikes hit the Gaza Strip Monday. Local sources identified the three slain Palestinians as Mohammed Zakariya al-Tatari, 27, Mohammed Zuhdi Odeh, 22, and Hamad Mohammed ....

Fresh Israeli airstrikes on Gaza leave two Palestinians dead, others injured

Date: 2018-11-12 16:59:09 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:89 - ID:7666877

GAZA CITY, Nov 12 (MENA) - The ongoing Israeli airstrikes against the northern part of the Gaza Strip left two Palestinians dead, and at least five others wounded, sources quoted by WAFA news agency, said. Mohammed al-Tatri, 27, and Mohammed ....

Huge tunnel, including sub-tunnels beneath Old City of Al Quds discovered

Date: 2018-11-12 14:45:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:7665782

RAMALLAH, Nov 12 (MENA) - A tour by Palestinian public figures to the Old City of Al Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) in Silwan neighborhood, south of al-Aqsa Mosque compound led to the discovery of a new huge tunnel that includes three sub-tunnels ....

Two minors among 8 Palestinians Israeli forces detain in West Bank

Date: 2018-11-12 11:33:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7665957

RAMALLAH, Nov 12 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained on Monday eight Palestinians, including two minors, from the occupied West Bank, WAFA quoted the Palestinian Prisoners' Club (PPC) as saying. It said soldiers detained Mufeed Mohammad Taqatqa, 14 ....

Israeli PM cuts short visit to Paris after Gaza violence

Date: 2018-11-12 06:44:38 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7665494

GAZA CITY, Nov 12 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short a visit to Paris Sunday night and returned to Israel after violence erupted along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported. At least six ....

4 Palestinians killed, 6 injured in Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza

Date: 2018-11-12 06:42:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7665490

GAZA CITY, Nov 12 (MENA) - Four Palestinians were killed and six others injured in Israel's shelling of Khuza'a town in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, Palestinian medical sources. Spokesman for the Palestinian Interior Ministry ....