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Jordan condemns violations against Aqsa

Date: 2018-04-06 09:11:11 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7336320

AMMAN, April 6 (MENA) - Jordan condemned on Friday the Israeli continuous violations against al Aqsa Mosque especially the provocative daily tours conducted by extremist settlers, guarded by the police, inside the mosque. These provocative and ....

Israel fires at fishermen in northern Gaza

Date: 2018-04-06 06:57:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7336167

GAZA CITY, April 6 (MENA) - Israeli gunboats fired at fishermen in northern Gaza on Friday morning. No injuries were reported, local sources said, adding that the fishermen left the area and went to another. The Israeli navy injured three ....

Palestinian youth dies of wounds sustained last Friday

Date: 2018-04-06 06:21:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:7336136

GAZA CITY, April 6 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth, from Jabalia in northern Gaza Strip, died on Friday of wounds he had sustained after he was shot by Israeli forces last Friday. The death of the 30-year-old martyr takes to 20 the number of martyrs ....

7 Palestinians wounded in clashes with Israeli forces near Gaza border

Date: 2018-04-05 18:40:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:85 - ID:7335883

GAZA CITY, April 5 (MENA) - At least seven Palestinians were wounded on Thursday in clashes with the Israeli occupation forces near the separation wall in eastern the Gaza Strip, while others suffered suffocation due to inhaling teargas canisters ....

Israeli amb. to UN urges UNSC to send message to Palestinian leadership

Date: 2018-04-05 17:38:25 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:78 - ID:7335795

GAZA CITY, April 5 (MENA) - Ahead of Friday's anticipated protests on the Gaza border, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon requested the UN Security Council to use its authority to "send a message to the Palestinian leadership," The ....

8,000 Daesh militants head for Afghanistan from Syria

Date: 2018-04-05 16:12:20 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:7335600

MOSCOW, April 5 (MENA) - First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federal Security Agency Sergei Semyonov said 8,000 Daesh militants left Syria for Afghanistan via Iran. After being trapped in Syria, Daesh militants have started to leave the ....

Palestinian killed by missile fired by Israeli drone on Gaza

Date: 2018-04-05 14:46:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7335109

GAZA CITY, April 5 (MENA) - A Palestinian has been killed after an Israeli drone targeted him with a missile to the east of Gaza City, according to medical sources at Shifa Hospital. They said that Red Crescent paramedics found the corps of a ....

Hundreds of Jewish settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2018-04-05 14:28:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7334511

RAMALLAH, April 5 (MENA) – As many as 300 Jewish settlers on Thursday stormed the precincts of Al Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli police. Eyewitnesses said the settlers broke into the holy site from Bab el Maghreba gate and ....

Israeli forces arrest 5 Palestinians in West Bank

Date: 2018-04-04 14:04:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:7332672

RAMALLAH, April 4 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested Wednesday five Palestinians during dawn raids in several West Bank areas. A young man was arrested at a military checkpoint in western Jenin and he was taken to a nearby military camp ....

Israeli settlers perform talmudic rituals at Romanian church

Date: 2018-04-04 10:24:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7332668

RAMALLAH, April 4 (MENA) - Jewish settlers - under Israeli army protection - performed some talmudic rituals at a Romanian church in Samoa village, south of the West Bank city of Hebron. In press statements on Wednesday, Rateb Jabour, the ....