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Palestine discusses new conference on Middle East with Russia, China — envoy
Date: 2018-01-09 16:18:12 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:76 - ID:7182611
MOSCOW, Jan 9 (MENA) - Palestine is negotiating to convene an international conference on the Middle East settlement with Russia, China and some European countries, Palestinian Ambassador to Russia Abdel Hafiz Nofal told TASS on Tuesday. "We are ....
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US decision freezing UNRWA funds is blackmail - Palestinian Cabinet
Date: 2018-01-09 12:56:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7182130
RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - The Palestinian Cabinet on Tuesday described a US decision freezing the funds of UNRWA as blackmail that is rejected by the Palestinian side. At its weekly session, the Cabinet said that the decision is illegal and adds ....
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Erekat: Palestinian State meaningless unless Al Quds its capital
Date: 2018-01-09 12:33:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:7181934
RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - A Palestinian State is meaningless without Al Quds as its capital, said Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat on Tuesday. In statements to Voice of Palestine Radio, he added that the US rhetoric on deals for ....
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Israel starts establishing walkway south Aqsa
Date: 2018-01-09 11:59:09 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:7181716
RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - Israel starts building a tourist walkway in Silwan city, south of Al Aqsa Mosquq, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said Tuesday. The center said scooping operations started on Monday in preparation for establishing the ....
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Palestinian foreign ministry decries Israeli escalation
Date: 2018-01-09 11:54:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7181759
RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry lashed out at Israel's escalation against the Palestinian people and Jewish settlers' cutting down of more than 50 olive trees in Deir al Hatab village in the northern West Bank city of ....
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Israeli forces arrest 20 Palestinian in Al Quds, WB
Date: 2018-01-09 11:37:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:7181886
RAMALLAH, Jan 9 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces detained 20 Palestinian citizens within the framework of an arrest campaign they launched in the wee hours of Tuesday in Al Quds and the West Bank. Israeli troops arrested two citizens from ....
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Israel arrests five Palestinian fishermen
Date: 2018-01-09 09:35:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:17 - ID:7181565
GAZA CITY, Jan 9 (MENA) - Israeli naval forces on Tuesday arrested five Palestinian fishermen and seized their ship offshore northwestern Gaza city. Israeli warships opened fire at the fishermen four miles offshore al Sudanya area and arrested ....
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Number of civilians killed by explosives in Mideast up 42% -- survey
Date: 2018-01-08 19:28:25 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:92 - ID:7181118
LONDON, Jan 8 (MENA) - More than 15,000 civilians were killed by explosive weapons in 2017, a jump of 42% in a year, according to a global survey seen by The Guardian. The rise – driven by airstrikes, which killed almost double the number of ....
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Israeli occupation forces arrest 16 Palestinians from WB, Al Quds
Date: 2018-01-08 08:42:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7179677
RAMALLAH, Jan 8 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Monday carried out a large-scale detention campaign against Palestinians in the West Bank and al Quds. Israeli occupants at dawn Monday stormed the house of Emad el Faqqih, a brother to ....
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Israel to restore regular Gaza power supply Monday - report
Date: 2018-01-07 21:29:39 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7179451
GAZA CITY, Jan 7 (MENA) - Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz on Sunday instructed Israel Electric Corporation to restore regular power supply to Gaza starting Monday citing the Palestinian Authority's willingness to pay for electricity, Yedioth ....
