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  • Kurdish YPG destroy Turkish tank in Afrin

    Date: 2018-02-05 12:14:53 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7228706

    DAMASCUS, Feb 5 (MENA) - The Kurdish-led People’s Protection Units (YPG) destroyed a Turkish Army tank in the Afrin region of northern Aleppo on Monday, reported Al Hurra News Channel. The all-news network did not give any details on the ....

  • Israeli occupation forces deploy patrols in central Jerusalem

    Date: 2018-02-05 10:11:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7228337

    RAMALLAH, Feb 5 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Monday deployed troops in the heart of the occupied city of Jerusalem especially the streets adjacent to the city's historical fence. Eyewitnesses said the occupation forces provocatively ....

  • PLO member condemns Israeli approval of legalizing settlement outpost near Nablus

    Date: 2018-02-05 08:54:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7228119

    RAMALLAH, Feb 5 (MENA) - Member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hanan Ashrawi strongly condemned the Israeli government's approval of a decision to legalize an Israeli settlement outpost near the northern occupied West Bank city of ....

  • 21 Palestinians arrested in West Bank

    Date: 2018-02-05 08:44:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7228152

    RAMALLAH, Feb 5 (MENA) - Israeli troops arrested 21 Palestinians in a manhunt operation in different parts of the West Bank Monday. Four Palestinians, including two brothers, from Hebron are among the arrestees, the Palestinian prisoners' ....

  • Norwegian lawmaker nominates BDS movement for Nobel Prize

    Date: 2018-02-04 19:30:59 GMT - Italy - Middle East - SN:99 - ID:7227692

    ROME, Feb 4 (MENA) – Norwegian lawmaker Bjornar Moxnes has nominated the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for this year’s Nobel Prize, WAFA reported on Sunday. MP Moxness officially nominated the BDS movement for ....

  • US troops in Israel for missile defense drill

    Date: 2018-02-04 16:25:49 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:89 - ID:7227533

    GAZA, Feb 4 (MENA) - US troops are in Israel and have deployed anti-missile defense systems across the Israel ahead of the biennial Juniper Cobra military exercise. The large-scale, five-day drill will simulate a massive missile attack on Israel ....

  • Ashkelon Prison administration transfers all detainees to other prisons - CDA

    Date: 2018-02-04 15:50:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:86 - ID:7227399

    RAMALLAH, Feb 4 (MENA) - The Palestinian Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs (CDA) said that the administration of Israeli Ashkelon Prison transferred all the detainees to other prisons. In press statements on Sunday, the CDA lawyer ....

  • Israeli forces detain 22 Palestinians in West Bank, Al Quds

    Date: 2018-02-04 14:08:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:7227222

    RAMALLAH, Feb 4 (MENA) - The Israeli forces detained at dawn Sunday 22 Palestinians from Al Quds (occupied east Jerusalem) and the West Bank. In Al Quds, the troops arrested 11 Palestinians, nine of them from Abu Dis in the southeast of the ....

  • Israel begins handing out deportation notices to African migrants

    Date: 2018-02-04 13:55:45 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:7227142

    RAMALLAH, Feb 4 (MENA) - Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority began serving deportation notices to Eritrean and Sudanese migrants and asylum seekers, The Times of Israel reported on Sunday. In December, the Knesset approved an amendment ....

  • Shaath: Japan to increase contribution to UNRWA

    Date: 2018-02-04 13:47:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:64 - ID:7226557

    RAMALLAH, Feb 4 (MENA) - Japan has decided to raise its contribution to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to meet the deficit after the US has decreased its funding of the organization. A statement, released by the office of the ....

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