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170 Jewish settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque under Israeli protection

Date: 2018-07-12 11:58:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7485166

RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers and students broke into Al Aqsa Mosque from Bab al Maghreba gate under tight protection provided by Israeli police. Sources in Al Quds said that 95 Jewish settlers and 75 students ....

Israeli settlers storm religious sites in Awarta village

Date: 2018-07-12 10:10:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7484753

RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Hundreds of Israeli settlers on Thursday barged into religious sites in Awarta village, some 8 kilometers southeast of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian security sources said that the settlers were ....

Israel hits Syrian posts after drone breached its airspace

Date: 2018-07-12 10:09:34 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7484751

RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Israel announced that it targeted Syrian military positions early on Thursday after an unmanned drone entered its airspace from the neighboring country the previous day. The Israeli military said it struck three Syrian ....

Qatar funding pro-Israel organizations

Date: 2018-07-12 10:06:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7484763

RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Qatar has donated $250,000 to some of the most extreme pro-Israel organizations in the US, a report by the Electronic Intifada has revealed. The sums are believed to have been transferred by Joseph Allaham, a lobbyist ....

Palestinian president in Moscow Friday

Date: 2018-07-12 08:02:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:7484735

RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Moscow on Friday for talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the latest developments in the Middle East, especially in the Palestinian territories. In ....

Israeli warplanes hit three Syrian army posts

Date: 2018-07-12 07:40:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:7484722

RAMALLAH, July 12 (MENA) - The Israeli army shelled three Syrian military positions near the Golan Heights frontier in the wee hours of Thursday. Israeli Army spokesman Avichai Adarei said that Israeli fighter jets hit three targets in ....

Israeli forces detain injured Palestinian along Gaza borderline

Date: 2018-07-11 19:44:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:7484382

RAMALLAH, July 11 (MENA) - A Palestinian was detained on Wednesday after he was shot and injured by Israeli forces’ live fire along Gaza borderline to the east of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip, sources told WAFA news agency. Israeli ....

UNRWA denies withholding salaries of 22,000 employees in Gaza

Date: 2018-07-11 15:56:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:7483733

RAMALLAH, July 11 (MENA) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) denied news fanned by some websites that the agency mulls withholding the salaries of 22,000 staffers in Gaza Strip. Chief of ....

Palestinian cabinet stresses rejection of "deal of century"

Date: 2018-07-11 15:48:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:7483971

RAMALLAH, July 11 (MENA) - Palestinian cabinet on Wednesday underscored Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's rejection of any agreement reached under the name of "the deal of the century". It added that Palestinian people will continue ....

Israeli forces detain 19 Palestinians from West Bank

Date: 2018-07-11 12:02:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:7483377

RAMALLAH, July 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained on Wednesday 19 Palestinians, including a university lecturer, as they conducted multiple overnight raids across the West Bank, said the Palestine Prisoner’s Club (PPC). Israeli forces detained ....