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Palestine: 7 killed, 20 injured in Gaza explosion

Date: 2018-02-01 16:42:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:7222829

GAZA CITY, Feb 1 (MENA) - Seven Palestinians were killed and at least 20 others injured in an explosion in a house in the densely populated Sabra neighborhood in Gaza city on Thursday evening, WAFA news agency reported, citing reports by the ....

PLO deplores US decision to list Hamas leader as terrorist

Date: 2018-02-01 14:13:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7222195

RAMALLAH, Feb 1 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat denounced on Thursday the decision taken by the US Department of Treasury to add Hamas movement leader Ismail Haniyeh to the terror list. In ....

Palestinian endowments min. condemns Israeli violations in Ibrahimi mosque

Date: 2018-02-01 13:35:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:7222159

RAMALLAH, Feb 1 (MENA) - Palestinian Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs Yousef Ideis said on Thursday that Israeli occupation escalates its violations against Islamic sanctities and rituals in Palestine. Israeli authorities banned up to ....

26 Palestinians killed since Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital - Al Quds center

Date: 2018-02-01 13:32:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7222164

RAMALLAH, Feb 1 (MENA) – Al Quds center for Israeli and Palestinian studies said that 26 Palestinians were killed since US President Donald Trump announced his recognition to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on December 6, 2017. In a new study, the ....

Israel targets Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza

Date: 2018-02-01 08:46:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7221544

GAZA, Feb 1 (MENA) - The Israeli navy targeted on Thursday morning Palestinian fishing boats off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said that Israeli gunboats chased the Palestinian fishing boats, shot at them and splashed ....

Israel detains 20 Palestinians from West Bank, Quds

Date: 2018-02-01 08:41:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7221503

RAMALLAH, Feb 1 (MENA) - The Israeli army detained 20 Palestinians in a search-and-arrest campaign it mounted at dawn on Thursday targeting different areas in the occupied West Bank and Al Quds. Seven youth were detained from Jenin, eight from ....

German FM lashes out at Israel over two-state solution

Date: 2018-01-31 22:41:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:111 - ID:7221187

GAZA CITY, Jan 31 (MENA) - German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel expressed concern Wednesday about the growing distance within Israel's current government from the two-state solution. It exhibits "at best mixed signals [which] do not go ....

Israeli minister calls for targeting Iran, not just its terror proxies

Date: 2018-01-31 21:59:06 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:108 - ID:7220666

GAZA CITY, Jan 31 (MENA) - Israel must immediately change its strategy and take action against Iran when there are attacks from Hezbollah and Syria, security cabinet member Naftali Bennett said Wednesday at the Institute for National Security ....

Hamas rejects US decision on blacklisting Ismail Haniyeh

Date: 2018-01-31 20:12:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:102 - ID:7221150

GAZA CITY, Jan 31 (MENA) – Hamas rejected Wednesday the US Department of State’s decision, blacklisting the movement’s Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh among the world's terrorists. Such a decision violated the international norms and laws and ....

3 sentenced to life in Turkey for attack that killed Germans

Date: 2018-01-31 17:00:35 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:91 - ID:7221018

ANKARA, Jan 31 (MENA) - A court in Istanbul sentenced three people to life prison terms on Wednesday for their involvement in a Daesh group suicide bombing in 2016 at Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district that killed 12 German tourists, ABC News ....