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Israeli jets conduct airstrikes on Gaza Strip

Date: 2019-08-17 07:50:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:8065761

GAZA CITY, Aug 17 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes attacked on Saturday morning several targets throughout the Gaza Strip causing damage but no injuries. According to local media, the Israeli occupation warplanes carried out two airstrikes that ....

Iron Dome intercepts rocket coming from Gaza - Israeli army

Date: 2019-08-16 20:55:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:8065637

GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - Explosions were heard in southern Israel after incoming rocket sirens were activated in several communities bordering the Gaza Strip on Friday night, the Jerusalem Post reported. According to the Israeli army, three ....

67 Palestinians injured at Gaza borders

Date: 2019-08-16 20:42:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:8065564

GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - At least 67 Palestinians were injured by live bullets and many others by rubber-coated rounds as Israeli forces attacked thousands of protesters taking part in the weekly Great March of Return at Gaza-Israel border, ....

2 Israelis injured in car-ramming attack near

Date: 2019-08-16 14:26:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:8065325

RAMALLAH, Aug 16 (MENA) - Two Israelis were injured in a car-ramming attack near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday. Israel's emergency medical service said that a Palestinian vehicle ran over an 18-year-old boy and a 19-year-old girl near ....

PLO official describes Israeli ban on US congresswoman as outrageous

Date: 2019-08-15 22:50:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:63 - ID:8064770

RAMALLAH, Aug 15 (MENA) - The Israeli decision to ban US Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Palestine is an outrageous act of hostility against the American people and their representatives, said Hanan Ashrawi, member of the ....

Palestinian shot by Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem dies of his wounds

Date: 2019-08-15 18:23:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:8064671

RAMALLAH, Aug 15 (MENA) - A Palestinian who was not identified and who was shot and injured earlier this afternoon by Israeli police inside the Old City of occupied Jerusalem has died of his wounds, according to the Palestinian Ministry of ....

Palestinians wounded by Israeli police gunfire in occupied Jerusalem

Date: 2019-08-15 17:29:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:8064641

RAMALLAH, Aug 15 (MENA) - At least three Palestinians were shot and injured this afternoon by Israeli police gunfire inside the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, state news agency WAFA quoted witnesses as saying on Thursday. They said police and a ....

Settlers storm into Al Aqsa Mosque complex

Date: 2019-08-15 11:20:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:8064067

RAMALLAH, Aug 15 (MENA) - Dozens of Israeli settlers, led by Israeli Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel, pushed their way into Al Aqsa Mosque complex, guarded by Israeli occupation forces. The settlers took provocative tours of the mosque and ....

US moves to block release of Iranian tanker detained in Gibraltar

Date: 2019-08-15 10:45:14 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8064020

LONDON, Aug 15 (MENA) - The US Department of Justice has made a last-minute application to block the release of the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1, which was seized by authorities in Gibraltar last month, a spokesman for the Gibraltar attorney general ....

Palestine ends presentation of its first report to UN panel on racial discrimination

Date: 2019-08-14 22:06:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:8063686

RAMALLAH, Aug 14 (MENA) – Palestine has ended the presentation of its first report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva in which it described Zionism as a racist movement that denies the ....