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Former Mossad chief: Israel is no superpower

Date: 2018-05-27 11:29:10 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:7418370

GAZA CITY, May 27 (MENA) - Former Israeli Mossad Chief Shabtai Shavit said Israel is no superpower and “we cannot be the second country” in the world to use a nuclear weapon [following the US during World War II], stressing an Israeli preemptive ....

Palestinian Information Ministry slams Israeli bill banning photographing soldiers

Date: 2018-05-27 10:55:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7418362

RAMALLAH, May 27 (MENA) - The Palestinian Information Ministry slammed an Israeli bill banning photographing soldiers. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said the bill will legitimize terrorism and encourage Israeli soldiers to kill and be ....

Israel detains seven Palestinians in West Bank, Al-Quds

Date: 2018-05-27 10:04:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7418234

RAMALLAH, May 27 (MENA) - Israeli troops detained seven Palestinians in the wee hours of Sunday in the West Bank and Al-Quds, said the Palestinian Prisoners Club. The arrests came during Israeli raids in Khalil (Hebron) and Al-Quds, where the ....

British arms exports to Israel reach record level

Date: 2018-05-27 08:29:12 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7418124

LONDON, May 27 (MENA) - British defense contractors are selling record amounts of arms to Israel, new figures reveal, just days after it was confirmed that Prince William will represent the UK government on a visit to the country next month, The ....

2 Palestinians killed, 1 wounded in Israeli shelling of Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-05-27 06:49:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:7418014

GAZA CITY, May 27 (MENA) - Two Palestinians were killed and one was injured in an Israeli artillery shelling of Gaza Strip early Sunday, Palestinian sources said. Israeli artillery fired two shells at Palestinian resistance positions in southern ....

Israeli warplanes launch raids on Gaza

Date: 2018-05-26 21:20:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:7417901

GAZA CITY, May 26 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes bombed several targets in southern Gaza Strip, local sources said on Saturday. The F-16 fighters struck two positions of the Palestinian resistance in western Rafah and western Khan Yunis in the ....

Israeli soldier badly wounded in West Bank arrest raid dies

Date: 2018-05-26 21:07:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:72 - ID:7417899

GAZA CITY, May 26 (MENA) – The Israeli military said a soldier who was seriously wounded in action this week has died, Fox News reported on Saturday. The military said Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky of an elite undercover commando unit succumbed to his ....

Israeli forces shoot, injure 2 Palestinians near Gaza border

Date: 2018-05-26 18:55:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:7417805

GAZA CITY, May 26 (MENA) - At least, two Palestinians were shot and injured on Saturday by Israeli troops near the barbed-wire fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, WAFA quoted Palestinian medical sources as saying. The Israeli forces, ....

Palestinian president receives China’s Mideast envoy

Date: 2018-05-26 13:29:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7417452

RAMALLAH, May 26 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received China's Middle East Special Envoy Gong Xiaosheng on Saturday at the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah where Abbas is being hospitalized for lung infection, Palestinian Wafa news ....

Palestinian succumbs to injuries in eastern Gaza

Date: 2018-05-26 08:56:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7416918

RAMALLAH, May 26 (MENA) - A Palestinian man, who was injured by Israeli troops during the Great Return marches in eastern Gaza, succumbed to his injuries, Palestine's Ministry of Health announced on Saturday. "Hossam Salem Abu A`weeda, 41, who ....