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Sheikh Akrama rejects US officials' claims on Buraq Wall will be part of Israel

Date: 2017-12-18 09:06:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7146031

RAMALLAH, Dec 18 (MENA) - The Grand Imam of Al Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Akrama Saed Sabri vehemently rejected US officials' unfounded claims that the Buraq Wall (the Western Wall) of Al Aqsa Mosque will at the end be part of Israel. In statements on ....

Israeli jets launch series of raids on Gaza

Date: 2017-12-18 07:15:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:7145853

GAZA CITY, Dec 18 (MENA) - Israeli jets launched on Monday a series of fierce raids on the Gaza Strip. The jets targeted positions in Ashkelon and navy sites in western Gaza city, local sources said. Israeli helicopters and reconnaissance ....

Two rockets fired from Gaza at Israel - report

Date: 2017-12-17 22:36:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:7145804

GAZA CITY, Dec 17 (MENA) - Two rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel Sunday night, the Israeli military confirmed, according to Haaretz. One of the rockets exploded in the yard of a residential building in southern Israel's Hof Ashkelon Regional ....

Israeli forces arrest 5 people over West Bank armament smuggling

Date: 2017-12-17 21:49:50 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:7145440

GAZA CITY, Dec 17 (MENA) - Israel's Shin Bet and security bodies arrested five people over an alleged armament smuggling ring in the south of the occupied territories and the West Bank, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday. An Arab person who owns a ....

5 injured in Gaza border clashes

Date: 2017-12-17 21:40:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:7145438

GAZA CITY, Dec 17 (MENA) - At least five Palestinians were injured, including one critically, during clashes that broke out Sunday along the Gaza Strip's borders as Palestinians continued to protest US recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, ....

Criticizing Israel occupation practices not antisemitism, says Palestinian Foreign Ministry

Date: 2017-12-17 16:10:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7145050

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry Sunday said that criticism of Israeli occupation practices should not be perceived as a form of antisemitism. This perception is in itself a form of "intellectual terrorism", the ....

Israel arrests Palestinian in Jenin

Date: 2017-12-17 15:58:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:7145103

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces detained Sunday a young man at the entrance to Salem camp in the west of Jenin city in the northern West Bank, according to witnesses. Meanwhile, clashes erupted between a number of Palestinian ....

Israeli forces detain 16 Palestinians in West Bank, Jerusalem

Date: 2017-12-17 12:36:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7144647

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) – Israeli occupation forces have detained 16 Palestinians during several raids across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, raising the number of Palestinians arrested since the beginning of the ongoing unrest in early ....

Fatah says US decision over Jerusalem crime

Date: 2017-12-17 11:51:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7144541

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Fatah movement stressed on Sunday that the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine is a crime that will not be passed no matter what it costs. By this decision, the US declared its hostility ....

Settlers storm Al Aqsa mosque anew

Date: 2017-12-17 09:33:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7144316

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Groups of settlers forced their way into Al Aqsa mosque on Sunday under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, eyewitnesses said. The settlers stormed the mosque via Al Magharba gate and carried out provocative ....