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UK attorney general intervenes in review of weapons sales to Israel

Date: 2024-08-26 10:13:58 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:10844254

LONDON, Aug 26 (MENA) - UK Attorney General Richard Hermer has intervened in the contentious decision over whether to ban UK arms sales to Israel, as officials struggle to distinguish between “offensive” and “defensive” weapons, according to the ....

Scores of Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque under protection of Israeli occupants

Date: 2024-08-26 07:48:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:10844002

RAMALLAH, Aug 26 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied eastern part of Jerusalem in the central West Bank, under the protection of Israeli occupation police, the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported. Dozens ....

Scores of Israeli settlers storm Deir Qaddis village in Ramallah

Date: 2024-08-26 07:36:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10843985

RAMALLAH, Aug 26 (MENA) - Israeli settlers on Monday stormed the village of Deir Qaddis, west of Ramallah, under the protection of the Israeli occupation police, Palestinian News Agency WAFA reported. Dozens of settlers entered the eastern part ....

Media groups urge EU to sanction Israel, suspend treaty over Gaza massacres

Date: 2024-08-26 07:29:24 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:10843943

BRUSSELS, Aug 26 (MENA) - Some 60 media and rights organizations on Monday urged the European Union to suspend a cooperation accord with Israel and impose sanctions, accusing it of “massacring journalists” in Gaza, Al Arabiya reported. “In ....

US, Israeli military chiefs confer on security challenges in Mideast

Date: 2024-08-26 07:05:14 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10843875

WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (MENA) - Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Brown met Monday with his Israeli counterpart Herzi Halevi to discuss security challenges in the region. They talked about strategic issues related to joint ....

Number of Palestinians killed, injured in Israeli shelling of Gaza

Date: 2024-08-26 06:57:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:10843858

RAMALLAH, Aug 26 (MENA) - A number of Palestinians were killed and injured in an airstrike by the Israeli occupation forces on a school sheltering displaced people north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, the Palestinian News ....

Israeli ambassador says US posture in Middle East played role in ‘deterring’ Iran

Date: 2024-08-25 21:53:20 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:85 - ID:10843767

WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (MENA) - Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog said the U.S.’s “very strong” posture in the Middle East has prompted Iran to hold off on a retaliatory attack against Israel as threats of an all-out war loom over the ....

Palestinian health ministry says it received polio vaccines and working to deliver them to Gaza Strip

Date: 2024-08-25 19:28:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:76 - ID:10843543

RAMALLAH, Aug 25 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Sunday that nOPV polio vaccines have finally been delivered, and coordination is underway to bring them into the Gaza Strip. According to WAFA news agency, the ministry added in a ....

Several killed, injured amid Israeli attacks on various areas of Gaza Strip

Date: 2024-08-25 19:17:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:10843536

GAZA, Aug 25 (MENA) - Palestinian civilians were killed and injured on Sunday in an Israeli bombing of various areas of the Gaza Strip, mainly on Gaza City and the southern part of the Strip. According to WAFA news agency, local sources reported ....

US defense secretary orders two aircraft carrier strike groups to remain in Middle East

Date: 2024-08-25 19:00:28 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:10843688

WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (MENA) - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the presence of two aircraft carrier strike groups in the Middle East, the Pentagon said on Sunday, strengthening the US military presence amid soaring regional ....