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Palestinian youth wounded with live bullet in Gaza

Date: 2018-02-22 17:18:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:7260202

GAZA CITY, Feb 22 (MENA) – A Palestinian youth was wounded on Thursday when Israeli forces shot a number of Palestinians with live bullet near Bureij refugee camp in Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses said. They added that the Palestinian youth was moved ....

Asylum seekers protest expulsion in Israel

Date: 2018-02-22 17:07:38 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:7260279

GAZA, Feb 22 (MENA) - About 1,000 asylum seekers and activists from the Stop the Expulsion movement protested Thursday near the Holot detention center in the Negev Desert. They then held a protest march from Holot to the nearby Saharonim Prison ....

UNRWA suffers budget deficit of $500m

Date: 2018-02-22 12:01:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7259375

RAMALLAH, Feb 22 (MENA) - UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) spokesperson Adnan Abu-Hasna said that the agency suffered a budget deficit of dlrs 500 million. In statements to the Voice of Palestine on Thursday, the spokesman said that the ....

Israeli forces arrest five children in Al Quds

Date: 2018-02-21 21:11:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:76 - ID:7258406

RAMALLAH, Feb 21 (MENA) – The Israeli forces arrested Wednesday five Palestinian children, aging between 13-15 years, in Al Quds. Eyewitnesses said the forces abducted the children from Shu'fat camp, in central Al Quds, during its ....

17 Turks flee to Greece seeking asylum

Date: 2018-02-21 12:26:17 GMT - Greece - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:7257865

ATHENS, Feb 21 (MENA) - A group of Turkish citizens landed on a Greek island in a dinghy after reportedly fleeing Turkey for fear of political persecution, DW reported. Several hundred Turks have fled to Greece as the crackdown over the 2016 coup ....

UN chief ‘deeply alarmed’ by Eastern Ghouta violence

Date: 2018-02-21 07:27:18 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7257115

NEW YORK, Feb 21 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply alarmed” by the escalating violence in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta enclave after more than 100 civilians were killed in the second straight day of air strikes, Arab News ....

250 killed in Western Ghouta: Syrian Observatory

Date: 2018-02-21 07:23:06 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:7257099

LONDON, Feb 21 (MENA) - As many as 250 people were killed during a shelling on Western Ghouta which is under the control of the opposition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. This is the biggest number of dead to fall in 48 hours since ....

Two Palestinians injured by Israeli troops in Nablus

Date: 2018-02-21 07:08:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:7257064

RAMALLAH, Feb 21 (MENA) - Two Palestinians were injured late on Tuesday in confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in Al Quds (occupied East Jerusalem). Israeli forces fired a rubber-coated metal bullet at the head of a Palestinian man in ....

US concerned about Eastern Ghouta violence

Date: 2018-02-21 06:37:40 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:7257105

WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (MENA) - The United States says it is "deeply concerned" about a surge in attacks by the Syrian government and its allies on a rebel-held enclave near the capital, Damascus. The cessation of violence in the Eastern Ghouta ....

Fatah spokesman lambasts US ambassador's statements

Date: 2018-02-20 15:45:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:7256378

RAMALLAH, Feb 20 (MENA) - Fatah Movement spokesman Osama Al Qawasmi said on Tuesday that US ambassador in Tel Aviv David Friedman made himself a spokesman for far-right groups in Israel. Qawasmi described the ambassador's statements about the ....