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  • 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 ....

  • Abbas checks out of hospital

    Date: 2018-05-28 11:54:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7419800

    RAMALLAH, May 28 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas checked out of hospital here on Monday after having recovered. Addressing reporters at Istishari Hospital, Abbas said he will be back in his office as of Tuesday. He thanked the ....

  • Palestinian gov't urges international community to provide protection for Palestinian people

    Date: 2018-05-28 11:04:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7419566

    RAMALLAH, May 28 (MENA) - The Palestinian government held the Israeli occupation forces responsible for the serious escalation against Palestinian people and their property in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip. In a statement ....

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