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Palestinian students pass out after inhaling poisonous gas fired by Israeli forces

Date: 2018-10-25 14:23:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:7638767

RAMALLAH, Oct 25 (MENA) - Scores of Palestinian students and teaching staff at a school in Hebron, in southern the West Bank passed out on Thursday after inhaling poisonous gas that was fired directly by the Israeli occupation forces at the school. ....

AL deplores Israeli assault on Jerusalem monastery monks

Date: 2018-10-25 14:17:13 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:7638248

CAIRO, Oct 25 (MEN A) - Assistant Arab League Secretary General for the Occupied Palestinian and Arab Lands Saeed Abu Ali on Thursday strongly condemned the Israeli occupation forces' suppression of a peaceful protest staged by monks of the ....

Dozens of Jewish settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2018-10-25 13:34:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:7638253

RAMALLAH, Oct 25 (MENA) - Dozens of Jewish settlers stormed Al Aqsa Mosque from Al Magharba gate on Thursday guarded by Israeli forces. As many as 116 settlers performed Talmudic rituals in the holy site, said eyewitnesses. Israeli police ....

Israeli warjets raid Palestinian resistance posts in Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-10-25 08:07:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7637955

GAZA CITY, Oct 25 (MENA) - Israeli warjets launched on Thursday a series of raids on Palestinian resistance posts in various parts of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said no casualties were reported in the northern and southern the Gaza ....

UNRWA to continue work in Al Quds despite Israeli attempts to stop it - official

Date: 2018-10-24 14:11:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7636765

RAMALLAH, Oct 24 (MENA) - Spokesperson for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) Sami Mshasha said Wednesday that the agency will continue its work in providing services to the refugees in Al Quds (East Jerusalem), despite ....

Erekat condemns Israeli attacks on Coptic priests in Old City

Date: 2018-10-24 13:07:35 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7636663

RAMALLAH, Oct 24 (MENA) - Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat denounced Israeli attacks on Coptic priests protesting outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. The priests were protesting ....

Palestinian min., Christian National Gathering slam Israeli assault on priests

Date: 2018-10-24 12:47:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7636560

RAMALLAH, Oct 24 (MENA) - Palestinian Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs Youssef Ed'iss hit out at Israel's heinous attack on a number of Egyptian Coptic Orthodox priests in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of the ....

Israeli forces assault Egyptian Coptic Orthodox priests, detain one in Jerusalem

Date: 2018-10-24 11:17:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7636497

RAMALLAH, Oct 24 (MENA) - Israeli forces assaulted on Wednesday a number of Egyptian Coptic Orthodox priests in front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of the occupied East Jerusalem, and forcefully detained one of them. Prior ....

Israel detains 10 Palestinians, besieges Quds city council building

Date: 2018-10-24 10:16:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7636250

RAMALLAH, Oct 24 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 10 Palestinians in the West Bank and Al Quds (East Jerusalem) and besieged the Al Quds city council building before withdrawing from the area. The occupation forces detained three Palestinians ....

Palestinian killed, several injured in clashes with Israeli forces

Date: 2018-10-24 07:37:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7636170

RAMALLAH, Oct 24 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth was killed early Wednesday and several others were injured by live ammunition and suffered gas inhalation during confrontations with Israeli forces in Tomon town, south of Tobas. A medical source said ....