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Syrian army attacks Nusra militants in Hama countryside

Date: 2018-05-24 13:11:35 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:7414846

DAMASCUS, May 24 (MENA) - Syrian army units attacked positions of Nusra militants in Hama countryside, inflicting heavy damage on them. The army units clashed with armed militants who tried to infiltrate through the direction of al Zalaqiyat ....

Erekat urges int'l community to oblige Israel to halt settlement activities

Date: 2018-05-24 13:09:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7414871

RAMALLAH, May 24 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat urged the international community to oblige the Israeli cabinet to abide by international law and halt all settlement ....

Israeli settlements on Palestinian territories illegal - official

Date: 2018-05-24 12:02:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7414774

RAMALLAH, May 24 (MENA) - Palestinian Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeinah stressed on Thursday that all settlements are illegal and contrary to all international legitimacy resolutions. Sooner or later settlements will be removed, Abu ....

Israeli forces detain nine Palestinians from West Bank, Gaza

Date: 2018-05-24 11:20:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7414581

RAMALLAH, May 24 (MENA) - Israeli forces Thursday detained at least nine Palestinians from the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip, said the Palestine Prisoner’s Club (PPS) and WAFA. The Israeli forces detained four Palestinians, including a ....

Israeli navy detains 2 Palestinian fishermen in northern Gaza

Date: 2018-05-24 10:53:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7414543

GAZA CITY, May 24 (MENA) - The Israeli navy detained on Thursday two Palestinian fishermen while fishing in the sea in northern Gaza. The fishermen are brothers, said head of fishermen union Nizar Ayyash. The Israeli gunboats confiscated the ....

Settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque under Israeli protection

Date: 2018-05-24 10:49:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:7414540

RAMALLAH, May 24 (MENA) – A group of Jewish settlers, heavily guarded by Israeli forces, stormed Thursday Al Aqsa Mosque from Mughrabi gate. The settlers moved inside the mosque in a provocative manner and then exited from Al Selsla gate, ....

Israel plans to build 2,500 settlement units in WB

Date: 2018-05-24 08:39:14 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7414323

RAMALLAH, May 24 (MENA) – The Israeli government announced Thursday it plans to build 2,500 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank. Israeli media outlets quoted Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman as saying that the government ....

French PM Philippe cancels visit to Israel next month

Date: 2018-05-23 19:09:51 GMT - France - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:7413837

PARIS, May 23 (MENA) - France's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has cancelled a planned trip to Israel early next month, citing "domestic agenda reasons", his office said on Wednesday. Philippe had been expected to visit Jerusalem on June 1 for ....

Erekat demands Swiss minister explains, apologizes for statements on Palestine refugees

Date: 2018-05-23 15:53:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:63 - ID:7413624

RAMALLAH, May 23 (MENA) - Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), demanded on Wednesday from the Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis to explain statements he made on the UN refugee ....

Palestine joins Chemical Weapons Convention

Date: 2018-05-23 14:59:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:7413607

RAMALLAH, May 23 (MENA) - The State of Palestine deposited on May 17 its instrument of accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ....