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  • Palestinian youth wounded in confrontations with Israeli forces in Nablus

    Date: 2019-01-21 06:27:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:7766828

    RAMALLAH, Jan 21 (MENA) - A Palestinian young man was wounded during confrontations with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus late on Sunday. Eyewitnesses said Israeli forces, accompanied by military bulldozer, stormed the eastern parts ....

  • Israeli air force intercepts Syrian missiles

    Date: 2019-01-20 19:38:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:80 - ID:7766563

    GAZA CITY, Jan 20 (MENA) - Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted a projectile launched from Syria after it accused Israel of carrying out a rare daytime attack on the south of the country, the Jerusalem Post reported on ....

  • Kuwait grants $ 60 mln to Gaza desalination plant

    Date: 2019-01-20 08:55:45 GMT - Kuwait - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7765311

    KUWAIT CITY/BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (MENA) - Kuwait has allocated $60 million for a desalination plant project in the Gaza Strip. The grant was announced by Mohammed Sadeqi, the engineering adviser of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development ....

  • Former US envoy says Trump has given 'new life' to terror group

    Date: 2019-01-20 08:41:46 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7765339

    WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (MENA) - The former US envoy for the anti-Daesh coalition, who resigned last month because of President Donald Trump abrupt decision to pull US forces out of Syria, has penned an op-ed arguing that Donald Trump has given the ....

  • Blast in Almotahalik Aljanobi in Damascus leaves people killed, injured

    Date: 2019-01-20 08:27:51 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7765283

    LONDON, Jan 20 (MENA) - A blast on Sunday near security premises in Almotahalik Aljanobi in Damascus left an unidentified number of people killed and injured, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The blast targeted a Syrian ....

  • 3 terrorist tunnels destroyed in Salaheldin

    Date: 2019-01-20 07:35:31 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7765195

    BAGHDAD, Jan 20 (MENA) - Three tunnels, belonging to the terrorists in Makhoul Mountains in Salaheldin province, were destroyed, Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Center Brigadier-General Yehia Rasool said on Sunday. The three tunnels were ....

  • Blast heard around Damascus; terrorist act reported

    Date: 2019-01-20 07:10:55 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7765169

    DAMASCUS, Jan 20 (MENA) - A blast has occurred around Damascus amid reports that it was a terrorist attack, said the state news agency (SANA) on Sunday. Roads leading to the scene have been closed and ambulances rushed there, Arabiya television ....

  • Israeli settlers quarrel with residents, police attack Palestinians in Silwan

    Date: 2019-01-19 09:17:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7764022

    RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (MENA) - Israeli police intervened in support of Jewish settlers during a quarrel with Palestinian residents of Silwan, an Arab neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, early Saturday leaving four residents injured, according to ....

  • Israeli forces conduct limited incursion into southern Gaza Strip

    Date: 2019-01-18 10:25:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:7762942

    GAZA CITY, Jan 18 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Friday carried out a limited incursion into northeastern Rafah, in southern Gaza Strip. Four military bulldozers carried out dredging operations in the area, according to Palestinian ....

  • Israeli authorities blow up house of Palestinian prisoner in Hebron

    Date: 2019-01-18 09:56:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7762836

    RAMALLAH, Jan 18 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation forces blew up on Friday the house of a Palestinian prisoner Khalil Youssef al-Jabarin in southern Hebron, south of West Bank. The occupation forces along with a military bulldozer and digger ....

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