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Israeli occupation forces arrest Palestinian child in southern Bethlehem

Date: 2018-12-13 22:23:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:93 - ID:7714008

RAMALLAH, Dec 13 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Thursday night detained a Palestinian child and injured others who suffered suffocation during confrontations in al Kedhr town in south Bethlehem City in southern the West Bank. A Palestinian ....

Israeli forces arrest two Palestinians, settlers escalate attacks on vehicles

Date: 2018-12-13 19:13:35 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:78 - ID:7713860

RAMALLAH, Dec 13 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested on Thursday two Palestinians youths from Showaika neighborhood in northern Tulkarm City. Meanwhile, Extremist Israeli settlers, some of them armed, escalated their rampages on Thursday ....

PLO official: Palestinian leadership reaching multiple stakeholders to stop Israel's aggression

Date: 2018-12-13 18:42:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:7713822

RAMALLAH, Dec 13 (MENA) - Azzam al-Ahmad, member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s executive committee, said on Thursday that the leadership has reached several regional and international stakeholders to put an end to the escalated ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry: Crisis cell formed to fend off Israeli violence

Date: 2018-12-13 18:16:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:72 - ID:7713797

RAMALLAH, Dec 13 (MENA) - A diplomatic source at the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs said on Thursday that the ministry has formed a crisis cell to follow up the developments resulting from the recent Israeli escalation ....

Eight Palestinians injured by Israeli forces fire in south Nablus City

Date: 2018-12-13 17:33:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:7713742

RAMALLAH, Dec 13 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces shot and injured eight Palestinians by rubber-coated steel rounds during clashes in the village of Lubban Esharqia, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Soldiers fired ....

Limited Israeli incursion into northern Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-12-13 15:55:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:7713198

GAZA CITY, Dec 13 (MENA) - Four Israeli bulldozers on Thursday conducted limited incursions into Palestinian lands on the outskirts of Beit Lahia city in northern the Gaza Strip. The Israeli bulldozers forced their way into the borders of Beit ....

Israel detained 53 Palestinians and killed three in one night

Date: 2018-12-13 15:03:35 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:7713210

RAMALLAH, Dec 13 (MENA) - The Israeli military forces detained 53 Palestinians in overnight raids across the West Bank and East Jerusalem on Thursday and killed three Palestinians in three separate incidents, WAFA quoted the Palestinian Prisoners ....

Arab League urges int'l pressures on Israel over Golan Heights

Date: 2018-12-13 14:47:02 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7713069

CAIRO, Dec 13 (MENA) - The Arab League has called on the United Nations Security Council to apply pressures on Israel, as an occupation power, to respect international resolutions including resolution 497 of 1981 which demands Israel to backtrack on ....

4 Israeli soldiers killed, injured in Ramallah shooting

Date: 2018-12-13 12:34:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:7713082

RAMALLAH, Dec 13 (MENA) - Two Israeli soldiers were killed and two others seriously wounded in a shooting near the settlement of Geva Binyamin in eastern Ramallah city of the West Bank, Israeli emergency services reported on Thursday, according to ....

Palestinian youth killed in Nablus

Date: 2018-12-13 12:30:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7712863

RAMALLAH, Dec 13 (MENA) - Israel killed a Palestinian youth in Nablus over allegations that he opened fire at two settlers in Burkan settlement in October. Troops of the Israeli Special Forces besieged Ashraf Walid Naaloh's house under heavy fire ....