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  • Egyptian security delegation back to Gaza to follow up reconciliation file

    Date: 2018-03-11 13:50:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:7289093

    GAZA CITY, March 11 (MENA) - An Egyptian security delegation returned to Gaza Sunday to follow up the Palestinian reconciliation file. The Egyptian delegation left for Gaza Thursday after talks that had lasted for 12 days with Palestinian ....

  • Israel fines 69 Palestinian minors in Feb. -- Prisoners' authority

    Date: 2018-03-11 12:05:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:7288998

    RAMALLAH, March 11 (MENA) - The Palestinian prisoners' affairs authority said Sunday that Israel had fined 69 Palestinian minors in February. The total value of the fines exceeded 116,000 Israeli shekels, the authority said in a ....

  • Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns use of live bullets against defenseless Palestinians

    Date: 2018-03-11 12:04:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7288917

    RAMALLAH, March 11 (MENA) - Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Sunday condemned the shooting at defenseless Palestinians in the village of Urif, to the south of Nablus in the West Bank, on Saturday evening. In a statement ....

  • Occupation forces send eviction notice to residential building in South Aqsa

    Date: 2018-03-11 11:51:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:7288837

    RAMALLAH, March 11 (MENA) - Jewish religious organization Ateret Kohanim has sent an eviction notice to tenants of a residential building in Batn el Hawa district in Silwan town, south of Al Aqsa Mosque, as part of its efforts to expand settlement ....

  • UNRWA: 90 countries take part in donors conference in Rome mid March

    Date: 2018-03-11 11:04:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7288803

    RAMALLAH, March 11 (MENA) - Spokesman of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Samy Mushashaa said Sunday 90 countries will take part in the donors conference, to be held in the Italian capital Rome in mid March. In statements to Palestine ....

  • Shaath: Refugees' right to return can never be trespassed

    Date: 2018-03-11 10:28:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:7288573

    RAMALLAH, March 11 (MENA) - Palestinian Presidential Advisor for Foreign Affairs and International Relations Nabil Shaath said the Palestinian refugees' right to return can never be rescinded. In statements to Palestine Radio on Sunday, Shaath ....

  • First woman White Helmets rescuer killed in Syria

    Date: 2018-03-11 09:04:27 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7288568

    DAMASCUS, March 11 (MENA) - The White Helmets rescue force suffered its first woman fatality on Saturday, after air strikes hit a rebel-held town in the battered Idlib province of northwest Syria, the group said on Sunday. It said rescue worker ....

  • Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in Nablus

    Date: 2018-03-10 19:16:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:7288135

    RAMALLAH, March 10 (MENA) - A Palestinian young man was shot dead and another one wounded during clashes with Israeli forces in Urif village in southern Nablus in northern West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry said the 23-year-old man was ....

  • Syrian army advances towards several axes in Eastern Ghouta

    Date: 2018-03-10 12:51:44 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7287547

    DAMASCUS, March 10 (MENA) - The Syrian army advanced on Saturday towards several axes held by armed groups in Eastern Ghouta. The death toll among the Syrian troops rose to 147, Syrian activists told Russia Today TV channel. Meanwhile, Faylaq ....

  • Truce to allow civilians to exit Ghouta starts

    Date: 2018-03-10 11:28:34 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:7287464

    DAMASCUS, March 10 (MENA) - A daily truce to allow the civilians, besieged in Ghouta by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization and affiliated groups, has started on Saturday morning, as terrorists continued to prevent civilians from exiting through ....

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