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  • Palestinian killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

    Date: 2018-08-08 23:29:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:94 - ID:7525347

    GAZA CITY, Aug 8 (MENA) – A Palestinian young man was killed and six others were injured in heavy airstrikes launched by Israeli warplanes against agricultural lands and 12 posts of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Health ....

  • Israel launches series of airstrikes against Gaza

    Date: 2018-08-08 21:36:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:86 - ID:7525271

    GAZA CITY, Aug 8 (MENA) – Israeli military aircraft Wednesday carried out a series of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. Israeli F16 warplanes and drones raided targets in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, the western part of Gaza city, and Rafah ....

  • Israeli occupation forces arrest 11 Palestinians in WB

    Date: 2018-08-08 12:07:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:7524167

    RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested at dawn Wednesday 11 Palestinians from West Bank and Al Quds. The Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a statement on Wednesday that six Palestinians, including a child, have been rounded ....

  • UN humanitarian coordinator urges Israel to allow entry of badly-needed fuel into Gaza

    Date: 2018-08-08 11:52:02 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7524470

    GENEVA, Aug 8 (MENA) - Jamie McGoldrick, the Humanitarian Coordinator, on Wednesday called on the Israeli authorities to immediately allow the entry of UN-purchased emergency fuel into the Gaza Strip, according to press statement by the United ....

  • Israel adopts settlement policy as substitute for international law -- Palestinian statement

    Date: 2018-08-08 10:48:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7524345

    RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said that Israel is adopting the Jewish settlement policy as a substitute for international law. In a released statement, the ministry added that the Israeli government is ....

  • Palestinian min.: UNRWA crisis politicized at first place

    Date: 2018-08-08 09:27:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7524098

    RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) - Palestinian Labor Minister Mamoun Abu Shahla stressed that the current crisis of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) is politicized at first place. During a meeting on Wednesday with the Arab Workers' ....

  • Poor Iranians bear brunt of sanctions as food prices soar - report

    Date: 2018-08-07 19:29:35 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:7523469

    LONDON, Aug 7 (MENA) - Financial Times on Tuesday shed light on the repercussions of a US decision to reimpose economic sanctions on Iran and the suffering of Iranians as a result the soaring prices of basic goods. Tehran's municipal markets used ....

  • Israel arrests six Palestinians in West Bank

    Date: 2018-08-07 13:19:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7522814

    RAMALLAH, Aug 7 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested late Monday and early Tuesday six Palestinians in the West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said. In a statement on Tuesday, the club said two were arrested in Qarawa town and one from each of ....

  • Two Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza Strip

    Date: 2018-08-07 09:35:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7522443

    GAZA CITY, Aug 7 (MENA) - Two Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of citizens in Beit Lahia town in northern the Gaza Strip. Al Aqsa Radio said medical teams carried the bodies of the two martyrs to the ....

  • US to restore sanctions on Iran, second round to be applied on Nov. 5

    Date: 2018-08-06 20:02:15 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:97 - ID:7521923

    WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to restore nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, increasing economic pressure on Tehran and renewing his criticism of what he called a "horrible, one-sided" nuclear ....

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