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US approves sale of military hardware to Israel

Date: 2024-09-13 07:05:54 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:10868866

WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (MENA) - The US State Department has given preliminary approval for the sale of heavy-duty tanker trailers to Israel, valued at approximately dlrs 164.6 million, according to a Pentagon announcement on Thursday. The principal ....

Pentagon: US aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt is leaving the Middle East

Date: 2024-09-13 06:53:39 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10868861

WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (MENA) - The USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group is leaving the Middle East and heading to the Indo-Pacific area of operations after completing its mission in US Central Command, Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder said. ....

Israel: Proposal to shutter 5 ministries in effort to curb deficit spending

Date: 2024-09-12 21:32:24 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:72 - ID:10868421

RAMALLAH, Sept 12 (MENA) - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will propose closing five government ministries as part of a Treasury plan set to be unveiled in the coming days to get Israel’s ballooning deficit spending in check amid the ....

If it weren't for war, we would have left your gov’t, Israeli min. to Netanyahu

Date: 2024-09-12 16:15:21 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:10868443

RAMALLAH, Sept 12 (MENA) - Israeli Minister of Construction and Housing Yitzhak Goldknopf said Thursday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if it weren't for the war, his party would have left his government, in response to the delay in passing the ....

Israeli strike on Golan kills 2 - SANA

Date: 2024-09-12 10:36:52 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:10867916

DAMASCUS, Sept 12 (MENA) - The Syrian state agency said an Israeli drone strike Thursday killed two people in Quneitra province, in the Syria-controlled Golan Heights. “Two citizens were martyred due to an Israeli drone attack that targeted a ....

Four civilians killed, others injured in Israeli airstrike on house in Khan Yunis

Date: 2024-09-12 09:47:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:10867819

RAMALLAH, Sept 12 (MENA) - Several civilians were killed and others injured on Thursday after the occupation warplanes bombed a house in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Wafa news agency. Medical sources reported ....

Five Palestinian civilians killed, injured, in ongoing Israeli bombardment in Gaza

Date: 2024-09-12 06:32:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10867434

GAZA CITY, Sept 12 (MENA) - Five Palestinians were killed and others were injured at dawn on Thursday as a result of the Israeli occupation's bombing of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in the south of Gaza City, ....

Guterres deplores killing of six UNRWA staff members in Gaza

Date: 2024-09-12 05:28:15 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:10867379

NEW YORK, Sept 12 (MENA) - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres deplored the killing of six staff members of the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees (UNRWA), according to the UN News Center. The six UNRWA members were killed in ....

One Israeli soldier killed in West Bank ramming operation

Date: 2024-09-11 17:03:24 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:10867086

GAZA CITY, Sept 11 (MENA) - An Israeli soldier succumbed to the wounds he sustained on Wednesday in a ramming attack north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli army. Other soldiers were reportedly injured. The ....

14 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza school

Date: 2024-09-11 17:00:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:10867084

RAMLLAH, Sept 11 (MENA) - At least 14 people were killed, mostly women and children, and others wounded in an Israeli air strike on a central Gaza school that turned to a displacement shelter, according to Wafa news agency. The Al-Jawni school in ....