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  • PLO central council suspends recognition of Israel

    Date: 2018-10-29 21:48:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:113 - ID:7645401

    RAMALLAH, Oct 29 (MENA) - The Palestinian Central Council has decided to annul the commitments of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority under its agreements with Israel. The council also suspended the ....

  • PLO calls on ICC to immediately investigate Israeli crime of killing 3 Gaza children

    Date: 2018-10-29 10:50:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:42 - ID:7643933

    RAMALLAH, Oct 29 (MENA) - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to immediately investigate the horrific crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces against three children from the Gaza ....

  • Israeli forces arrest 21 Palestinians in West Bank

    Date: 2018-10-29 10:45:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7644039

    RAMALLAH, Oct 29 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested 21 Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said. The arrests took place in the governorates of Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Biera, Ramallah and Al ....

  • Fatah condemns Israel's killing of three children in Gaza Strip

    Date: 2018-10-29 07:07:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7643651

    GAZA CITY, Oct 29 (MENA) - Fatah hit out at Israel's killing of three children in the central Gaza Strip in cold blood. In a statement on Monday, the movement's spokesman Atef Abu Seif slammed the international community's silence over these ....

  • Israeli airstrike kills three children in Gaza

    Date: 2018-10-28 21:24:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:7643444

    GAZA, Oct 28 (MENA) – Three Palestinian children were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area northeast of the city Khan Younis, southern the Gaza Strip, said medical sources. Sources said Red Crescent ambulances pulled the bodies of ....

  • At Syria summit, leaders produce few answers to endgame question -- paper

    Date: 2018-10-28 12:43:27 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7642666

    WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (MENA) - The leaders of Russia, Turkey, France and Germany met in Istanbul Saturday to seek an end to Syria’s long war, a process over which Moscow wields considerable influence, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. But ....

  • Palestinian Foreign Ministry denounces Israeli expansion of Maale Adumim settlement

    Date: 2018-10-28 11:39:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7642393

    RAMALLAH, Oct 28 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Sunday denounced the Israeli approval of building 20,000 new housing units in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in Jerusalem. In a press statement released on Sunday, the Foreign ....

  • Jewish settlers storm Aqsa Mosque under Israeli occupation protection

    Date: 2018-10-28 11:32:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7642470

    RAMALLAH, Oct 28 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers on Sunday stormed Al Aqsa Mosque precincts under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. Eyewitnesses said the Jewish settlers stormed the holy mosque from Bab el Maghreba gate and made ....

  • Palestinian death toll in Friday march rises to 7

    Date: 2018-10-28 07:48:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7642091

    GAZA CITY, Oct 28 (MENA) - A Palestinian succumbed to the wounds he sustained during the Friday March of Return protests, upping the number of Palestinian death toll of the march to seven. In a statement on Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry ....

  • Russia, France, Germany, Turkey call for 'lasting ceasefire' to Syrian war

    Date: 2018-10-27 19:56:56 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7641874

    ISTANBUL, Oct 27 (MENA) - Russian President Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron gathered in Istanbul for a four-way summit with Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a last-ditch bid to reach a political ....

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