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Liberman vows retaliation for Hamas, Jihad kite attacks

Date: 2018-06-04 16:35:38 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:7430457

GAZA CITY, June 4 (MENA) - Israel will retaliate for incendiary kite attacks from the Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman vowed at Monday’s Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset. Liberman revealed that there have been 600 kite ....

PNC says no peace or stability in region unless after ending Israeli occupation

Date: 2018-06-04 15:09:57 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:7429450

AMMAN, June 4 (MENA) - The Palestinian National Council (PNC) said there will be no peace or stability in the region unless after ending the 51-year-old Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands and establishing an independent Palestinian state ....

Ibrahimi Mosque director: Israel bans call for prayers daily

Date: 2018-06-04 12:21:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7429568

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - Director of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron City Hafzi Abu Sneneh said Israeli occupation forces closed all entrances and electronic gates leading to the mosque. Interviewed by "Voice of Palestine" Radio, Abu Sneneh said ....

SOHR: roadside bomb kills one person near US coalition base in Syria

Date: 2018-06-04 12:12:13 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:7429567

LONDON, June 4 (MENA) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Monday said a bomb blast in northern Syria targeted a military vehicle on the road from Ain Issa to a military base where some of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State ....

Palestinian killed by Israeli forces on Gaza border

Date: 2018-06-04 12:03:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:7429553

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - The Israeli army killed a Palestinian young man, claiming that he attempted to cross the Israel−Gaza security barrier, Israeli media reported on Monday. Two Palestinians tried to cross the border fence from eastern Khan ....

EU, Netherlands contribute to paying PA salaries, pensions

Date: 2018-06-04 11:58:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7429606

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - The European Union and The Netherlands have contributed by more than euros 35 million to paying salaries and pensions of the Palestinian Authority staffers whose number exceeds 55,000. A statement released by the EU on ....

Scores of Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa mosque precincts

Date: 2018-06-04 10:53:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:7429616

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers on Monday stormed the precincts of Al Aqsa Mosque from Bab al Maghreba gate under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces as a provocative move against the Muslims in their holy month of ....

Palestinian gov't warns Israel against deducting funds from Palestinian tax revenues

Date: 2018-06-04 10:47:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7429359

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - The Palestinian government Monday warned Israel against plans to deduct funds from the Palestinian tax revenues it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority in order to compensate Israeli farmers in the Gaza periphery ....

Israeli forces detain 13 Palestinians from the West Bank

Date: 2018-06-04 10:35:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7429395

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained on Monday 13 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank, WAFA news agency quoted the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) as saying. PPS said in a statement that soldiers detained ....

Netanyahu heads to Europe to discuss Iran file with European leaders

Date: 2018-06-04 06:08:29 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:7429185

GAZA CITY, June 4 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Europe this week in a bid to rally support from key allies for amending the international nuclear deal with Iran and for pushing Iranian forces out of neighboring Syria, ....