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Palestinian president deplores burning mosque in Nablus by Israeli settlers

Date: 2018-04-13 09:15:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7347526

RAMALLAH, April 13 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned setting fire to a mosque in Aqraba town in the east of Nablus in northern West Bank by a number of Israeli settlers who also wrote racist slogans on its walls. "This is ....

Israeli settlers set fire to mosque in Nablus

Date: 2018-04-13 08:02:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:7347453

RAMALLAH, April 13 (MENA) - Israeli settlers set fire on Friday to a mosque in Aqraba town in the east of Nablus in northern West Bank, after throwing highly flammable substances on it and writing racist slogans on its walls. A number of Israeli ....

Palestinian shot dead at Gaza border

Date: 2018-04-12 18:11:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:7347099

GAZA CITY, April 12 (MENA) - A Palestinian young man identidied as Abdullah Mohammad Shahri, 28, died of his wounds on Thursday evening after he was shot and critically injured by Israeli forces near the Gaza-Israel border fence, to the east of Khan ....

Israeli forces arrest 14 Palestinians in WB

Date: 2018-04-12 11:30:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:7345941

RAMALLAH, April 12 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces detained on Thursday 14 Palestinians from several West Bank governorates. The detainees include six from Jenin, two from Tubas, one from Qalqilya and another one from Nablus in northern the ....

Israeli navy targets Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast

Date: 2018-04-12 10:30:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7345746

GAZA, 12 April (MENA) - Israeli gunboats on Thursday fired at Palestinian fishing boats sailing off the coast of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said. None was harmed. Israeli military aircraft also mounted several mock raids on the ....

Palestinian killed as Israeli warplanes shell Gaza post

Date: 2018-04-12 06:48:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:7345553

GAZA CITY, April 12 (MENA) – A Palestinian young man was killed and another seriously injured when Israeli warplanes shelled a military post of Hamas movement in eastern Shuja'iyya neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, Spokesman for the Palestinian ....

Israel detains 14 Palestinians from Quds, West Bank

Date: 2018-04-11 09:59:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7344011

RAMALLAH, April 11 (MENA) - The Israeli forces detained on Wednesday 14 Palestinians, including a woman and two children, from the West Bank and al Quds. Five of the detained are from Hebron, four from Qalqiliya, three from Nablus and three from ....

Trump parades his generals as destroyer loaded with cruise missiles arrives off Syrian coast

Date: 2018-04-11 08:11:10 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7343894

WASHINGTON, April 11 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump flexed his military muscle Tuesday by tweeting an Oval Office image of 19 of his most senior military commanders, as a guided missile destroyer moved inside strike range of Syria. The USS ....

Palestinian information ministry slams Lieberman's praise of Israeli sniper as inciting killing

Date: 2018-04-11 07:45:50 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:7343837

RAMALLAH, April 11 (MENA) - The Palestinian Information Ministry slammed Israeli defense minister's praise of an Israeli sniper who shot a Palestinian across the border in Gaza. In a statement on Wednesday, the ministry considered this as a call ....

Israeli strikes Gaza target after infiltration attempt in eastern Gaza

Date: 2018-04-11 06:54:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:7343767

GAZA CITY, April 11 (MENA) - The Israeli warplanes struck a Palestinian resistance target in the northern Gaza Strip after an explosion took place near an Israeli bulldozer during its storming of the Palestinian territories near al Mintar ....