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  • Israel detains 8 Palestinians from West Bank

    Date: 2018-08-15 13:02:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7534492

    RAMALLAH, Aug 15 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained at dawn on Wednesday eight Palestinians, including a journalist, from different governorates of the West Bank. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that the forces detained the ....

  • PLO executive committee member praises Egyptian-Palestinian relations

    Date: 2018-08-15 11:48:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:7534497

    RAMALLAH, Aug 15 (MENA) - Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee Ahmed al Tamimi praised the Egyptian-Palestinian relations and continued coordination between the leaders of the two countries. The remarks by ....

  • Israel fires at Palestinian fishermen off Gaza shores

    Date: 2018-08-15 10:12:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:7534175

    GAZA CITY, Aug 15 (MENA) - Israeli gunboats fired on Wednesday morning at boats of Palestinian fishermen sailing off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said that the gunboats fired at several boats but none was harmed. This ....

  • Israel reopens Karm Abu Salem crossing

    Date: 2018-08-15 09:50:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7534266

    GAZA CITY, Aug 15 (MENA) - Israeli authorities reopened on Wednesday Karm Abu Salem commercial crossing with Gaza to allow fuel, construction materials, food and other goods into the besieged Gaza Strip, Wafa news agency reported according to Raed ....

  • Israel to open Karam Abu Salem border crossing Wednesday

    Date: 2018-08-14 18:39:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:7533581

    GAZA CITY, Aug 14 (MENA) - Israel said it would reopen the Karam Abu Salem border crossing with the Gaza Strip and extend the strip’s permitted fishing zone on Wednesday morning, The Times of Israel reported on Tuesday. Israeli Defense Minister ....

  • Palestinian cabinet condemns Israeli attacks on civilians in Gaza Strip

    Date: 2018-08-14 15:09:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:64 - ID:7533206

    RAMALLAH, Aug 14 (MENA) - The Palestinian cabinet has strongly condemned the continued Israeli aggression and military escalation against the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian cabinet asserted that the Israeli targeting of the innocent civilians in the ....

  • Dozens of Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

    Date: 2018-08-14 13:15:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:7533081

    RAMALLAH, Aug 14 (MENA) - Dozens of Israeli settlers on Tuesday stormed Al Aqsa Mosque from Bab al Magharibah gate under strong protection by Israeli occupation forces. Some 80 settlers, including 23 Jewish students, broke into the mosque and ....

  • Palestinian foreign ministry deplores Israel's confiscation of lands in W. Bank

    Date: 2018-08-14 11:25:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7532769

    RAMALLAH, Aug 14 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned in the strongest terms the scooping and confiscation of lands in the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry lashed out at the ruling right-wing party's ....

  • 29 Palestinians arrested in W.Bank

    Date: 2018-08-14 09:02:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7532593

    RAMALLAH, Aug 14 (MENA) - Twenty-nine Palestinians were arrested on Tuesday by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said that eight Palestinian citizens, including two women, were arrested in ....

  • Russian military downs 5 drones near Syria's Hmeymim air base

    Date: 2018-08-13 20:18:25 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:95 - ID:7532237

    MOSCOW, Aug 13 (MENA) - Russian air defenses at the Hmeymim airbase shot down on Monday five attack drones launched by militants operating in Syria's de-escalation zone of Idlib, Sputnik quoted Maj. Gen. Alexei Tsygankov, head of the Russian Center ....

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