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Israeli forces kill two Palestinians, injure 525 along Gaza border

Date: 2018-06-08 18:44:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7436169

GAZA CITY, June 8 (MENA) - Two Palestinian citizens were killed by Israeli gunfire, during their participation in the Great March of Return protests along the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. In a ....

Palestinian gov"t denounces Netanyahu remarks on peaceful rallies

Date: 2018-06-08 14:28:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7435858

RAMALLAH, June 8 (MENA) – Palestinian government spokesman Yousef Al Mahmoud on Friday denounced remarks made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in some European states about peaceful rallies on the Israel-Gaza border. In a statement, ....

Russia denies reports about airstrikes on Syria’s Idlib

Date: 2018-06-08 11:39:21 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7435664

MOSCOW, June 8 (MENA) - Russia’s Defense Ministry rejected the reports of the Syrian Human Rights Monitoring Center and White Helmets that a Russian warplane had allegedly delivered an airstrike on June 7 near the community of Zardan in Syria’s ....

Israeli air force complete multi-front drill as Gaza tensions surge

Date: 2018-06-07 20:55:09 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:7435216

GAZA CITY, June 7 (MENA) - The Israel Air Force (IAF) completed Thursday a week-long military exercise simulating a two-front aerial campaign on the southern and northern borders, with Israeli jets battering hundreds of simulated targets, the ....

8 Palestinians injured by Israeli forces in Nablus

Date: 2018-06-07 14:43:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:7434351

RAMALLAH, June 7 (MENA) - Eight Palestinians were injured on Thursday by the Israeli forces during incursions in Nablus in the West Bank. Clashes broke out between the forces and the Palestinians where the Israeli forces fired live and rubber ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry: Israeli killing of Tamimi "mark of shame" on US

Date: 2018-06-07 14:14:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7434242

RAMALLAH, June 7 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has denounced Israel's brutal crime of murdering Palestinian youth Izzeddin Tamimi after shooting him dead at close range in the village of Nabi Saleh, in Ramallah, terming this as a " mark ....

Israeli police detain two Palestinians from Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2018-06-07 11:40:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7434357

RAMALLAH, June 7 (MENA) - Israeli police threw stun grenades at Palestinian worshipers at Al Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, and detained two young men following days of tension due to provocations by Jewish fanatics protected by police, ....

Official: Iran to complete facility to build centrifuges in a month

Date: 2018-06-07 07:52:24 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7433872

TEHRAN, June 7 (MENA) - Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi said that a facility in Iran's Natanz nuclear plant to build advanced centrifuges will be completed in a month. "We hope the facility to be completed in a month," ....

Palestinian gov't denounces Israeli killing of Tamimi

Date: 2018-06-06 22:38:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:7433678

RAMALLAH, June 6 (MENA) – The Palestinian government condemned on Wednesday the Israeli crime of murdering Palestinian youth Izzeddin Tamimi after he was shot dead at close range in the village of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah. This heinous ....

Palestinian youth wounded by Israeli fire in Ramallah

Date: 2018-06-06 21:29:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:7433677

RAMALLAH, June 6 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth was wounded on Wednesday by Israeli rubber bullets in clashes that erupted during the funeral of slain Palestinian Izzeddin Tamimi. The young man was wounded in the head and was rushed to hospital to ....