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  • ICRC to send surgeons, drugs to Gaza

    Date: 2018-05-31 12:07:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7424312

    GAZA CITY - GENEVA, May 31 (MENA) - To help with an overwhelming rise in medical needs in Gaza, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is sending two surgical teams, additional medical specialists and an influx of supplies to fortify ....

  • Israeli forces arrest 16 Palestinians in West Bank

    Date: 2018-05-31 09:43:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7424109

    RAMALLAH, May 31 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested 16 Palestinians, including a journalist, in different parts of the West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoner Club said on Thursday. The arrests took place late on Wednesday and early Thursday. The ....

  • PLO member: Israel 2020 settlement project becomes a reality

    Date: 2018-05-31 09:43:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7424054

    RAMALLAH, May 31 (MENA) - Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Ahmad Majdalani said "Israel 2020" project, which aims at increasing the number of settlers in the West Bank and Al Quds city to one million ....

  • Hundreds of Palestinian administrative detainees to start hunger strike next week

    Date: 2018-05-31 08:28:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7423990

    RAMALLAH, May 31 (MENA) - The head of prisoner affairs for the Palestinian Authority, Issa Qaraqe, said that hundreds of Palestinian prisoners being held under administrative detention in Israeli prisons will start a gradual hunger strike as of next ....

  • US should leave Syria – Assad

    Date: 2018-05-31 08:12:05 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7423984

    DAMASCUS, May 31 (MENA) – Syrian President Bashar al Assad has vowed to recapture the areas controlled by the Washington-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), noting that the US has to learn the lesson from the invasion of Iraq and depart from ....

  • US denies reports on Syria’s Manbij-related deal with Turkey

    Date: 2018-05-31 06:54:09 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:7423916

    WASHINGTON, May 31 (MENA) – The US State Department has dismissed reports on reaching a three-step deal with Turkey to withdraw the Washington-backed Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from Manbij, north Syria. US State Department spokeswoman Heather ....

  • 3 Syrian opposition members killed in car bombing in Daraa

    Date: 2018-05-31 06:50:03 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:7423927

    DAMASCUS, May 31 (MENA) - Three Syrian opposition members were killed in a booby-trapped car blast in a rural area between Daraa and Quneitra governorates on Thursday, Syrian opposition sources. The car exploded while approaching a checkpoint ....

  • Iraqi counter terror forces deny withdrawal from Kirkuk

    Date: 2018-05-30 19:09:19 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:7423662

    BAGHDAD, May 30 (MENA) - The Iraqi Special Operations Command of the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) on Wednesday denied a withdrawal from Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Rumors circulated on social networks that CTS forces had been pulled out and the ....

  • Israel approves 2,070 new illegal settler units in occupied West Bank

    Date: 2018-05-30 19:00:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:7423658

    RAMALLAH, May 30 (MENA) – Israeli authorities on Wednesday approved the construction of 2070 new housing units in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now said. Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor ....

  • Settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

    Date: 2018-05-30 10:41:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7422818

    RAMALLAH, May 30 (MENA) - Nearly 50 settlers on Wednesday broke into the courtyards of Al Aqsa Mosque from Al Maghreba Gate under strict protection by Israeli occupation forces. Settlers break into the mosque almost on daily basis under the full ....

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