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Israel suspends pumping fuel, gas into Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-08-02 08:46:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7515255

GAZA CITY, Aug 2 (MENA) - Israeli military authorities suspended on Thursday pumping of badly needed fuel and cooking gas into the besieged Gaza Strip through Karm Abu Salem/Kerem Shalom crossing in the southeast, WAFA news agency reported. Raed ....

Palestinian youth injured, several suffer suffocation during clashes with Israeli forces

Date: 2018-08-02 08:05:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7515216

RAMALLAH, Aug 2 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth was injured on Thursday and others suffered suffocation during confrontations with Israeli forces in the West Bank City of Nablus. Several citizens suffered suffocation when Israeli forces fired tear ....

Israeli bulldozers razed Palestinian lands in Beit Ta'mir village

Date: 2018-08-01 13:19:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:7513887

RAMALLAH, Aug 1 (MENA) - Israeli bulldozers razed Palestinian lands in Beit Ta'mir village, some 6 kilometers southeast of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. In press statements on Wednesday, representative of the Settlement and Wall Resistance ....

UNRWA schools in Ramallah to open in mid Aug.

Date: 2018-08-01 12:30:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:7514103

RAMALLAH, Aug 1 (MENA) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) decided to start the school year at its schools in Ramallah in mid August, said Scott Anderson, the director of UNRWA operations in the West ....

Rouhani to be questioned by parliament

Date: 2018-08-01 07:54:31 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7513629

TEHRAN, Aug 1 (MENA) - Iranian Parliament garnered the needed votes to question President Hassan Rouhani over the country’s economic issues, the Iranian news agency Mehr reported. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said a total number of 92 out of ....

Head of Revolutionary Guards rejects Trump's offer of talks with Tehran

Date: 2018-08-01 06:46:40 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:7513577

TEHRAN, Aug 1 (MENA) - Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRG) Mohammad Ali Jafari has rejected US President Donald Trump’s offer of talks with Tehran, saying the Islamic Republic was not North Korea. "Mr Trump! Iran is not North Korea to ....

Israeli army faces Druze rising anger due to nation-state law - report

Date: 2018-07-31 22:14:26 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:7513271

GAZA CITY, July 31 (MENA) - Israeli chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot urged soldiers to leave politics “outside the confines of the army” and praised the contributions of Druze and other minorities to the defense of the state, The Times of Israel ....

Jordan, Palestine ink memo in housing field

Date: 2018-07-31 16:09:30 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:7513092

AMMAN, July 31 (MENA) - Jordanian Minister of Public Works and Housing Yehia Alkasbi signed on Tuesday with his Palestinian counterpart Mufid Al-Hasayneh a memorandum of understanding in the field of roads, housing and tenders. The two sides ....

Israel informs 6 Palestinian families of home demolition orders

Date: 2018-07-31 12:37:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7512485

RAMALLAH, July 31 (MENA) - The Israeli authorities informed owners of six homes in the village of al-Walajeh, northwest of Bethlehem, that their homes will be demolished because they were built without permit, local activist Ibrahim Awadallah said ....

Israeli forces shoot 2 Palestinians near Gaza border

Date: 2018-07-30 18:37:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:7511962

GAZA CITY, July 30 (MENA) - Two Palestinians on Monday were shot and injured by Israeli forces near the border with the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency WAFA quoted Palestinian sources as saying on Monday. The pair were among a group of ....