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Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa compound

Date: 2018-06-18 10:53:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7448499

RAMALLAH, June 18 (MENA) - Dozens of Israeli settlers broke into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque Monday under tight security measures by Israeli police. The settlers stormed the Mosque from al Maghreb Gate. Israeli police set up a military ....

Israeli warplanes carry out several airstrikes on Gaza

Date: 2018-06-18 06:21:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:7448216

GAZA CITY, June 18 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes early Monday morning carried out a series of airstrikes on multiple locations across Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, leaving damages to the bombed sites and causing fear among the local citizens, ....

Terrorists in Syria fire shells at al-Baath city in Quneitra - agency

Date: 2018-06-17 18:44:25 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:7448006

DAMASCUS, June 17 (MENA) - Terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra on Sunday fired shells at Syrian al-Baath city in Quneitra province, causing material damage, SANA reported. SANA’s correspondent in Quneitra said that al-Nusra terrorists located in ....

Israeli forces shell 3 sites in Gaza

Date: 2018-06-17 18:09:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:7447972

GAZA CITY, June 17 (MENA) - Israeli reconnaissance planes targeted three sites in the Gaza Strip, four hours after another airstrike that targeted some citizens who were flying kites. According to Palestinian sources, no injuries were ....

Netanyahu to Putin: Iran needs to withdraw from Syria

Date: 2018-06-17 15:16:06 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:7447859

GAZA CITY, June 17 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had a conversation with the Russian President Vladimir Putin and United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding the situation in Syria, Yedioth Ahronoth reported ....

Israel releases prisoner Hassan Tamimi after loss of sight

Date: 2018-06-17 13:39:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7447721

RAMALLAH, June 17 (MENA) - Israeli authorities released Sunday prisoner Hassan al Tamimi, 18, from Deir Nezam village in northwestern Ramallah. In statements, activist Mohamed al Tamimi said that Israel released Tamimi who was transferred to ....

11 injured as Israeli police evacuate illegal outpost in West Bank

Date: 2018-06-17 12:11:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7447559

RAMALLAH, June 17 (MENA) - Israeli police began clearing 10 buildings in Tapuah West on Sunday morning, clashing with hundreds of far-right youth who converged on the illegal northern West Bank outpost to prevent the court-ordered demolition, ....

Nothing to change after US planned new Mideast tour- Abu Rudeina

Date: 2018-06-16 15:34:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:7446707

Ramallah, June 16 (MENA) - Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina said Saturday that the rhetoric about a planned US tour to Mideast to push forward what it was called as the “Deal of the Century” would never make a difference. The ....

Israeli warplanes drop illumination flares on central Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-06-15 21:22:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:7446046

GAZA CITY, June 15 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes dropped on Friday illumination flares above Bureij in the central Gaza Strip. Earlier in the day, a raft of Palestinians kite launchers survived a rocket attack carried out by an Israeli ....

Two Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in Kafr Qaddum

Date: 2018-06-15 18:57:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:7445962

RAMALLAH, June 15 (MENA) - Two Palestinians were arrested by Israeli occupation forces in Kafr Qaddum village, some 20 km to the north-east of the city of Qalqilia. The two men were taken to an unknown destination, coordinator of the village's ....