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UN coordinator urges step back to avoid escalation in Gaza

Date: 2018-07-15 12:02:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:7489311

GAZA CITY, July 15 (MENA) - Nickolay Mladenov, the United Nations UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East, called on all parties to take a step back to avoid escalation in Gaza. At a press conference in Gaza on Sunday, he said Gaza was on the ....

Israeli court okays release of suspected accomplice in Duma firebombing

Date: 2018-07-15 10:25:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7489060

RAMALLAH, July 15 (MENA) - The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday rejected the state’s appeal against releasing the alleged accomplice in the 2015 Duma terror attack to house arrest. The suspect, now 19 but being tried as a minor, is accused of ....

Israeli forces injure nine Palestinians, arrest seven near Ramallah

Date: 2018-07-15 09:30:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7488944

RAMALLAH, July 15 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Sunday injured nine Palestinians and arrested seven others after raiding al-Jalazoun refugee camp, near Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. The Israeli ....

Syrian forces capture Masharah town in Quneitra governorate

Date: 2018-07-15 09:24:14 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7488947

DAMASCUS, July 15 (MENA) - Syrian forces managed to take control of Masharah town in Quneitra governorate, which is adjacent to the occupied Golan Height, Syrian sources said on Sunday. The government forces advanced towards the town after ....

UN peace coordinator arrives in Gaza

Date: 2018-07-15 08:14:35 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7488924

GAZA CITY, July 15 (MENA) - United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov arrived early Sunday to the Gaza Strip via Beit Hanon crossing. No further details are available about the visit. Mladenov will ....

Israel renews bombing of Gaza

Date: 2018-07-15 06:22:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:7488818

GAZA CITY, July 15 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes renewed airstrikes over Gaza Strip on Sunday after rockets were fired from the enclave targeting Israel. Two Palestinians were wounded when a rocket targeted a group of Palestinians in eastern Toufah ....

Two children killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

Date: 2018-07-14 19:03:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:7488580

GAZA CITY, July 14 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes Saturday shelled an empty building west of Gaza city, killing two Palestinian kids and injuring at least 10 other passersby, WAFA news agency quoted sources as saying. The Israeli aircraft fired at ....

Israeli warplanes shell two posts in Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-07-14 10:45:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7487872

GAZA CITY, July 14 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes on Saturday afternoon attacked anew several sites in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli fighter jets fired three rockets on a site in the center of the Gaza Strip and launched an air raid on a post in Rafah ....

Israeli soldiers crash engagement party in northern West Bank

Date: 2018-07-14 10:02:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7487777

RAMALLAH, July 14 (MENA) - Israeli soldiers crashed on Friday night an engagement party in the town of Yabad, north of the West Bank, and kept invitees from reaching it, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Saturday. The Israeli soldiers ....

Israel bans Palestinians from holding academic conference in Al Quds

Date: 2018-07-14 09:43:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7487751

RAMALLAH, July 14 (MENA) - Israeli security banned on Saturday Palestinians from holding an academic conference in occupied East Jerusalem (Al Quds), Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Israeli security forces cordoned off Al Quds University’s ....