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Israeli bolldozers infiltrate into eastern Gaza

Date: 2018-04-24 10:25:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:7366948

GAZA CITY, April 24 (MENA) - Israeli bulldozers infiltrated into eastern and central Gaza on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli soldiers started to set up a barbed wire near a school on the separating line in eastern Gaza. Meanwhile, ....

Israeli forces force out 5 Palestinian families from their homes in W.Bank

Date: 2018-04-24 08:27:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7366674

RAMALLAH, April 24 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces expelled five Palestinian families from their homes in Kherbet Hamsa al Foqa, a Bedouin village in the northern West Bank, under the pretext of conducting military training in the area. In ....

Israeli forces demolish prisoner’s home in Jenin

Date: 2018-04-24 07:28:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7366601

RAMALLAH, April 24 (MENA) - Israeli forces Tuesday demolished a Palestinian-owned house using dynamite in the city of Jenin, WAFA reported quoting sources as saying. The house belonged to Ahmad Jamal al Qumbaa, a prisoner in Israeli ....

Greek PM says Turkey ignores European targets

Date: 2018-04-23 19:03:08 GMT - Greece - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:7366216

ATHENS, April 23 (MENA) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ruled out any trade-off with Turkey in efforts to secure the release of two detained Greek soldiers and said Ankara appeared to be moving further away from Europe, Ekathimerini newspaper ....

Assad: Tripartite aggression on Syria will not succeed in stopping war on terrorism

Date: 2018-04-23 14:13:16 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:7365791

DAMASCUS, April 23 (MENA) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad asserted that the recent tripartite aggression waged by the United States, Britain, and France will not succeed in stopping the war on terrorism, which will continue until control is ....

Palestinian from Rafah killed by Israeli bullet

Date: 2018-04-23 08:29:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7364810

GAZA CITY, April 23 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth from Rahaf Monday succumbed to wounds he had sustained during the Return March rallies. Tahrir Mahmoud, 18, had received an Israeli bullet to the head during the peaceful rallies. This brings ....

Palestinian youth killed in Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-04-23 07:40:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7364787

GAZA, April 23 (MENA) - The Palestinian Health Ministry said that a 20-year-old Palestinian youth succumbed to his wounds which he had sustained in clashes with Israeli occupation forces on Friday in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. The ....

Israeli army shoots three youths in Gaza

Date: 2018-04-22 20:08:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:7364336

GAZA CITY, April 22 (MENA) – Israeli snipers stationed at the Gaza borders Sunday fired live ammunition at two Palestinian youths during ongoing protests east of Khan Younes, south of the Gaza Strip, WAFA reported. Medical sources said Israeli ....

2 Israelis arrested on suspicion of selling arms to Palestinian

Date: 2018-04-22 15:46:48 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:7364130

GAZA CITY, April 22 (MENA) - Israeli police arrested two Israelis from Aroer in the northern Negev and a Palestinian from Yatta in the West Bank on Sunday on suspicion of arms trade, said Ynet news. The police suspect that some of the arms were ....

Maliki says dropping reference of "occupied" territories won't change legal status quo of Palestinian lands

Date: 2018-04-22 10:55:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7363217

RAMALLAH, April 22 (MENA) - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al Maliki has said that a US report that for the first time since 1979, drops reference to the Palestinian territories as "occupied" will not change the legal status quo of the lands. ....