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SOHR: roadside bomb kills one person near US coalition base in Syria

Date: 2018-06-04 12:12:13 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:7429567

LONDON, June 4 (MENA) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Monday said a bomb blast in northern Syria targeted a military vehicle on the road from Ain Issa to a military base where some of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State ....

Palestinian killed by Israeli forces on Gaza border

Date: 2018-06-04 12:03:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:7429553

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - The Israeli army killed a Palestinian young man, claiming that he attempted to cross the Israel−Gaza security barrier, Israeli media reported on Monday. Two Palestinians tried to cross the border fence from eastern Khan ....

EU, Netherlands contribute to paying PA salaries, pensions

Date: 2018-06-04 11:58:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7429606

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - The European Union and The Netherlands have contributed by more than euros 35 million to paying salaries and pensions of the Palestinian Authority staffers whose number exceeds 55,000. A statement released by the EU on ....

Scores of Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa mosque precincts

Date: 2018-06-04 10:53:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:7429616

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers on Monday stormed the precincts of Al Aqsa Mosque from Bab al Maghreba gate under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces as a provocative move against the Muslims in their holy month of ....

Palestinian gov't warns Israel against deducting funds from Palestinian tax revenues

Date: 2018-06-04 10:47:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7429359

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - The Palestinian government Monday warned Israel against plans to deduct funds from the Palestinian tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority in order to compensate Israeli farmers in the Gaza periphery ....

Israeli forces detain 13 Palestinians from the West Bank

Date: 2018-06-04 10:35:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7429395

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained on Monday 13 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank, WAFA news agency quoted the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) as saying. PPS said in a statement that soldiers detained ....

Netanyahu heads to Europe to discuss Iran file with European leaders

Date: 2018-06-04 06:08:29 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:7429185

GAZA CITY, June 4 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Europe this week in a bid to rally support from key allies for amending the international nuclear deal with Iran and for pushing Iranian forces out of neighboring Syria, ....

UN officials call on Israel to abandon plans to demolish Palestinian Khan al Ahmar

Date: 2018-06-03 20:03:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7428976

RAMALLAH, June 3 (MENA) - Humanitarian Coordinator Jamie McGoldrick, and the UNRWA Director of Operations in the West Bank Scott Anderson called on the Israel authorities to cease its plans to carry out the mass demolition and transfer of the ....

Palestinian youth succumbs to injuries eastern Gaza

Date: 2018-06-03 09:49:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7427951

GAZA CITY, June 3 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth, who was injured by Israeli occupation forces during the Great March of Return protests on May 14, succumbed to his wounds earlier Sunday. According to medical sources in the Gaza strip, Mohammed ....

Israeli artillery shells site in Gaza

Date: 2018-06-02 20:15:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:7427538

RAMALLAH, June 2 (MENA) - Israeli artillery bombed a military site east of Zeitoun district in southeastern Gaza Strip, without casualties reported, Wafa news agency reported on Saturday. The shelling left the target completely destroyed, said ....