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UN official holds Israel responsible for recent bloody events in Gaza

Date: 2018-05-18 12:50:30 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:7406586

GENEVA, May 18 (MENA) - Michael Lynk, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, held Israel responsible for the recent bloody events in Gaza. The remarks came in Geneva, at a UN Human ....

Kremlin: Putin, Assad assert importance of creating conditions for political settlement in Syria

Date: 2018-05-17 20:08:43 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:7406015

MOSCOW, May 17 (MENA) - Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Bashar al-Assad of Syria, who held talks in Sochi on Thursday, pointed out the importance of creating further conditions for resumption of a full-fledged process of political settlement ....

Arish general hospital receives injured Palestinians from Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-05-17 14:38:42 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:7405599

ARISH, Egypt, May 17 (MENA) - Arish General Hospital continues receiving wounded Palestinians from the Gaza Strip for treatment. There are medical staff and ambulances waiting at Rafah border crossing to help transfer the injured coming from the ....

Palestinians urged to participate in Friday’s Great March of Return

Date: 2018-05-17 13:42:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:7405010

GAZA, May 17 (MENA) – The Higher National Commission for the March of Return and Breaking the Siege urged people across Palestine to take part in the Great March of Return on Gaza borders after Friday prayer. The commission, which is a ....

Palestinian president receives phone call from Jordanian king

Date: 2018-05-17 13:12:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:7405170

RAMALLAH, May 17 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received a phone call from Jordanian King Abdullah II who extended condolences over the death of Palestinians martyred by Israeli forces on Gaza border on Monday. During the phone ....

54 Palestinians clinically dead from Gaza unrest - authority

Date: 2018-05-17 12:12:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:7405284

RAMALLAH, May 17 (MENA) - Fifty-four of the Palestinians who were wounded in the latest Gaza unrest are clinically dead, according to an independent Palestinian authority on Thursday. At a press conference, chairman of the Independent Palestinian ....

Malaysian PM condemns violence against Palestinians

Date: 2018-05-17 11:46:35 GMT - Malaysia - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7405281

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 (MENA) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad condemned on Thursday Israeli violence against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that left 60 Palestinians dead on Monday. Mohamad said Israeli forces shot dead Palestinian ....

Israeli forces detain 10 Palestinians from WB

Date: 2018-05-17 11:36:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7405208

RAMALLAH, May 17 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested Thursday 10 Palestinians from the West Bank. In a statement on Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the occupation troops nabbed three Palestinians from Bethlehem including a freed ....

62 settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque during 1st day of Ramadan

Date: 2018-05-17 11:34:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:7405194

RAMALLAH, May 17 (MENA) - Sixty-two settlers stormed Al Aqsa Mosque during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan Thursday under tight security measures by the Israeli special forces. Eyewitnesses said that the settlers carried out ....

Palestinian wounded in Israel’s airstrike against Hamas position in Gaza

Date: 2018-05-17 06:48:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:7404769

Gaza, May 17 (MENA) – A Palestinian was wounded after the Israeli warplanes raided a position of Hamas movement northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that the Palestinian was admitted to a hospital in Gaza with ....