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Israeli army conducts military exercises south Nablus

Date: 2018-06-11 11:08:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7439417

RAMALLAH, June 11 (MENA) - Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank town of Aqraba, south of Nablus, complained on Monday that Israeli army military training in their area has destroyed their crops, WAFA news agency reported on ....

Israel carries out limited incursion into central Gaza

Date: 2018-06-11 10:38:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7439306

GAZA CITY, June 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces conducted a limited incursion east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Monday morning, witnesses said. Israeli military vehicles, including bulldozers, were seen destroying farmers' ....

Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians from West Bank, including journalist

Date: 2018-06-11 10:07:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7439346

RAMALLAH, June 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained on Monday 11 Palestinians from several areas in the occupied West Bank, including a journalist, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). It said that the occupation forces detained ....

Sana: Terrorists set fire to planted lands in Quneitra

Date: 2018-06-10 13:34:29 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7438175

DAMASCUS, June 10 (MENA) - Terrorist groups set fire to dozens of dunams planted with trees and wheat in the area of Kroum al-Hamria and villages of Jabba in the northern countryside of Quneitra, Sana news agency reported Sunday. On Saturday ....

Assad denies Russia makes decisions for him

Date: 2018-06-10 11:04:30 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7437814

DAMASCUS, June 10 (MENA) - Syrian President Bashar al Assad denied that military ally Russia was making decisions for him, but said it was natural for there to be differences of opinion between allies, in an interview published on Sunday by state ....

Palestinian leadership rejected UN envoy meeting on Gaza -- official

Date: 2018-06-10 11:01:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7437821

RAMALLAH, June 10 (MENA) - The Palestinian leadership has refused to attend a meeting called for by UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, said a member of the ....

Iran says couldn't wait EU 'vague promises'

Date: 2018-06-10 10:00:02 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7437748

TEHRAN, June 10 (MENA) - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has said that Tehran cannot wait for too long to see if Europe can preserve the nuclear deal, calling on Europeans to announce their clear decision sooner. "The Islamic Republic ....

Israeli navy targets Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast

Date: 2018-06-09 11:33:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7436657

GAZA CITY, June 9 (MENA) - Israeli gunboats on Saturday fired at Palestinian fishing boats sailing off the coast of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said. None was harmed. In the West Bank, Israeli forces mounted a search and arrest ....

Palestine: Israel fails in covering its army's moral decay in Gaza

Date: 2018-06-09 10:52:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7436581

RAMALLAH, June 9 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said the Israeli leaders are insisting on reporting and spreading fake news to the global public opinion to hide their continuous acts of terrorism and crimes ....

Palestinian teen injured in clashes with Israeli forces in Hebron

Date: 2018-06-09 09:41:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7436580

RAMALLAH, June 9 (MENA) - A 16-year-old Palestinian teenager was shot with a rubber bullet in the foot, while dozens of Palestinians suffered from suffocation due to inhaling tear gas during clashes with Israeli forces in the town of Beit Ummar, to ....