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Israeli forces arrest 9 Palestinians in WB

Date: 2018-05-29 09:38:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7421132

RAMALLAH, May 29 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained early Tuesday 9 Palestinians in the West Bank. Two girls in their early twenties were arrested east of Tulkarm and Hebron, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said in a statement on Tuesday, adding ....

Israel arrests two Palestinians after infiltrating into Har Brakha settlement

Date: 2018-05-29 09:01:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7421087

RAMALLAH, May 29 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested on Tuesday two Palestinians after infiltrating into Har Brakha settlement, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Hebrew media outlets said that one of the arrested ....

Israeli artillery shells sites in Gaza, causing severe damage

Date: 2018-05-29 07:44:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7420976

RAMALLAH, May 29 (MENA) - Israel shelled on Tuesday posts and agricultural lands east of Gaza City, causing severe structural damage. Eyewitnesses said the Israeli artillery deployed along the Gaza Strip borderline fired at least 10 missiles east ....

Israeli Supreme Court 'greenlights state to commit war crime' -- rights group

Date: 2018-05-28 21:52:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:85 - ID:7420814

GAZA CITY, May 28 (MENA) – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B'Tselem) said that a recent verdict issued by the Israeli Supreme Court would "spell ruin for the Palestinians’ lives". It will "constitute a ....

Israel strips High Court of power to adjudicate West Bank land disputes

Date: 2018-05-28 21:14:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:81 - ID:7420788

RAMALLAH, May 28 (MENA) - The Israeli Knesset passed in its first reading, by 47 to 45, a bill that would strip the High Court of Justice of its jurisdiction in cases regarding West Bank land disputes, The Times of Israel reported on Monday. The ....

Netanyahu to discuss Iran with French, German leaders next week

Date: 2018-05-28 18:54:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:7420723

GAZA CITY, May 28 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet the leaders of France, Germany and possibly Britain next week to discuss ways to stop what he called Iran’s nuclear ambitions and regional expansionism, Euronews quoted ....

Lieberman to visit Russia Thursday

Date: 2018-05-28 16:31:42 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:72 - ID:7420581

GHAZA CITY, May 28 (MENA) - Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman will meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoygu on Thursday, the Israeli Defense Ministry said in a statement on Monday. Lieberman was invited by Shoygu following a phone call ....

Abbas to preside over PLO executive committee meeting soon: official

Date: 2018-05-28 16:15:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:7420531

RAMALLAH, May 28 (MENA) - The Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) will convene in few days under Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, PLO member Saleh Raafat said on Monday. The meeting is expected to review the ....

Palestinian killed, another injured in attack on Palestinian resistance positions

Date: 2018-05-28 15:08:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:64 - ID:7420478

GAZA CITY, May 28 (MENA) - A Palestinian citizen was killed and another was wounded Monday when an Israeli artillery targeted monitoring points affiliated to the Palestinian resistance in Beit Lahya, northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian martyr is ....

US school gets death threat over silent tribute for Gaza victims

Date: 2018-05-28 14:40:06 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:7420366

NEW YORK, May 28 (MENA) - A moment of silence at the Beacon School for those killed in Gaza continues to reverberate. William Stroud, the assistant principal of the public high school in Hell’s Kitchen, told a parents meeting last week that he ....