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US withdrawal from UN Rights Council shocking, disappointing – MP says
Date: 2018-06-21 08:59:29 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7452663
CAIRO, June 21 (MENA) – Head of the parliament’s Arab Affairs Committee Saad el Gammal said the United States withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council was shocking and disappointing. He explained on Wednesday that the US bias in ....
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Israeli army demolishes home of Palestinian accused of car-ramming attack
Date: 2018-06-21 08:25:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7452616
RAMALLAH, June 21 (MENA) - A large Israeli army unit raided the northern West Bank town of Barta’a early Thursday and demolished the home of Ala’a Qabaha, who is accused of ramming his car into Israeli soldiers near Jenin on March 16, killing two ....
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Netanyahu: We are prepared for every scenario in Gaza
Date: 2018-06-20 21:25:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:64 - ID:7452287
GAZA CITY, June 20 (MENA) - Israel's reaction to the situation in Gaza will escalate “as necessary,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday at a graduation ceremony for new Israeli officers at a training base near Mitzpe Ramon, JPost ....
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Malta's FM reiterates rejection of US embassy relocation decision
Date: 2018-06-20 20:08:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:7452105
RAMALLAH, June 20 (MENA) - Maltese Minister of Foreign Affairs Carmelo Abela on Wednesday reiterated his country's rejection of the US decision to relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, describing it as a unilateral one that does not serve the ....
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UNRWA commissioner-general never decided to curtail services offered to refugees
Date: 2018-06-20 14:38:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:7451861
GAZA CITY, June 20 (MENA) - Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Pierre Krähenbühl have not decided until the moment to curtail services offered for more than 5 million Palestinian refugees, Media ....
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Russia concerned over Israel’s strikes against Gaza Strip - diplomat
Date: 2018-06-20 13:57:11 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7451867
MOSCOW, June 20 (MENA) - Moscow is concerned over the Israeli strikes against the Gaza Strip and calls on all parties to hold a large-scale dialogue, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters. "Moscow is concerned over ....
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Jewish settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque
Date: 2018-06-20 13:41:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:7451695
RAMALLAH, June 20 (MENA) - Jewish settlers stormed on Wednesday Al Aqsa Mosque under the protection of Israeli police. They entered from Al Magharba Gate and provocatively toured Islam's third holiest site. The Israeli occupation forces are ....
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Israeli occupation forces demolish gate of bus station near Jerusalem
Date: 2018-06-20 09:52:50 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7451299
RAMALLAH, June 20 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces' bulldozers on Wednesday demolished a gate of a bus station in Wadi el Goz district near the old fence of Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the bulldozers removed the barbed wire on the entrance of ....
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Israeli warplanes shell Palestinian resistance site in Gaza
Date: 2018-06-19 22:33:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:7451001
GAZA CITY, June 19 (MENA) – Israeli warplanes pounded a site of the Palestinian resistance in southern the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday night. The targeted site was affiliated to the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing ....
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UN envoy: Palestinian refugees 'weeks away' from major cuts
Date: 2018-06-19 21:42:48 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:84 - ID:7450959
GAZA CITY, June 19 (MENA) - The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is "weeks away from painful cuts" to its emergency assistance for Gaza and refugees elsewhere because of an unprecedented gap in its budget of more than $250 million, the UN Mideast ....
