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  • Israeli troops injure 10 Palestinians in Gaza

    Date: 2018-08-17 18:01:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:7537895

    GAZA CITY, Aug 17 (MENA) - Ten Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces in a cross-border shooting in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to witnesses. The forces opened fire at dozens of Palestinian youths who approached the eastern borders ....

  • Israeli occupation forces wound dozens of Palestinians in Kafr Qaddum town

    Date: 2018-08-17 17:02:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:7538012

    RAMALLAH, Aug 17 (MENA) - Dozens of Palestinians suffered suffocation after inhaling teargas canisters fired at them by the Israeli occupation forces to disperse the weekly Great March of Return protests in the town of Kafr Qaddum, Qalqilya province ....

  • Police question Netanyahu in 11th interrogation over graft probes

    Date: 2018-08-17 15:34:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7537909

    GAZA CITY, Aug 17 (MENA) - Police investigators rolled into the Prime Minister’s Residence Friday morning to interrogate Benjamin Netanyahu in the high-profile Bezeq graft probe, known as Case 4000, in what is expected to be his last questioning ....

  • Palestinians get ready for Great March of Return protest for 21st week

    Date: 2018-08-17 09:27:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7537439

    GAZA CITY, Aug 17 (MENA) - Palestinians finalized preparations to participate in the Great March of Return protests on Friday for the 21st week in a row. In a statement, the Higher National Commission for Great March of Return and Breaking of ....

  • Israeli authorities blockade Nablus entrances after hit-and-run incident

    Date: 2018-08-16 21:11:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:100 - ID:7537194

    RAMALLAH, Aug 16 (MENA) – The Israeli forces blocked Thursday night the entrances to Nablus, after an Israeli female settler was killed in a hit-and-run incident. The woman, 42, who was hit by a car in the Havat Gilad area on Thursday, was ....

  • Syrian reconstruction talks premature - Pompeo

    Date: 2018-08-16 13:53:28 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:7536501

    WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (MENA) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stressed, during a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura, that any discussions of reconstruction in Syria are premature without a political solution, the State ....

  • UNRWA says its schools will start new schoolyear on time

    Date: 2018-08-16 12:55:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:7536494

    GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl announced that the schoolyear for 526,000 Palestine refugee girls and boys will open on time in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, WAFA ....

  • Building 20,000 Israeli settlement units in Quds declaration of war : Palestinian govt.

    Date: 2018-08-16 11:18:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7536175

    RAMALLAH, Aug 16 (MENA) - The Israeli approval of plans to build 20,000 settlement units in Al Quds is a new violation against the city, Spokesman for the Palestinian government Youssef al Mahmoud. In a press statement on Thursday, Mahmoud ....

  • 13 Palestinians arrested in W.Bank

    Date: 2018-08-16 10:36:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:7536046

    RAMALLAH, Aug 16 (MENA) - Thirteen Palestinians, including a woman, were arrested on Thursday by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that the Palestinian citizens were arrested in Al ....

  • Palestinian reporter Dar Ali moved to Ofer military prison

    Date: 2018-08-15 21:53:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:96 - ID:7535218

    RAMALLAH, Aug 15 (MENA) - Palestinian journalist Ali Dar Ali, 34, who was detained on Wednesday morning by Israeli occupation forces, was moved to Ofer military prison, according to the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission. In a ....

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