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Clashes erupted after Palestinian shot dead by Israeli settler in Nablus

Date: 2017-12-01 13:35:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7118375

RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - Clashes erupted between Israeli occupation forces and a number of Palestinian youth following Friday prayers held at Ras al Nakhla in the east of Qusra village, southeast of the West Bank city of Nablus. On Thursday, ....

Palestinian presidency: Al Quds 'key for war and peace'

Date: 2017-12-01 11:33:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:7118235

RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - Spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Al Quds is the key for war and peace, stressing that any just solution to the Palestinian issue must ensure that Al Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) is the ....

Israeli forces demolish home of Palestinian prisoner

Date: 2017-12-01 08:40:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7117950

RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces demolished earlier Friday home of Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Ziyad in Qabatiya city, northern West Bank. Dozens of residents, including a toddler and an elderly woman, suffered suffocation ....

Quake rocks Iran's south-central province

Date: 2017-12-01 08:26:32 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7117978

TEHRAN, Dec 1 (MENA) - A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit on Friday morning Hojedk town at Ravar County located in south-central province of Kerman, according to the seismological center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University. The tremor ....

Russian planes destroy over 910 terrorist facilities in Syria in past week

Date: 2017-12-01 08:24:58 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7117979

MOSCOW, Dec 1 (MENA) - Russia’s Aerospace Forces carried out over 420 sorties in Syria over the past seven days and destroyed over 910 facilities belonging to Daesh terrorist group, Russian news agency TASS quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as ....

Palestinian youth wounded in Qusra by settlers

Date: 2017-12-01 06:37:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:7117923

RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth was injured Thursday when clashes erupted between Palestinians and settlers who stormed, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, Qusra village, southern Nablus. Scores of settlers from ....

3 Palestinians hurt in Israeli rocket attack in southern Gaza

Date: 2017-11-30 20:32:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:7117722

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) – Three Palestinians were injured when Israeli F-16 jets launched four rockets on a post in southern the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses said on Thursday. The three wounded Palestinians were moved to Al Shifaa Hospital in ....

Israeli ministers threaten major Italian bike race over Jerusalem wording

Date: 2017-11-30 18:51:31 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:7117646

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) - Israeli officials threatened to drop their partnership in the first stage of the Giro d’Italia after organizers of the prestigious cycling event referred to the start of the race as in “west Jerusalem.” The first day of ....

Israeli jets shell resistance posts in northern, southern Gaza Strip

Date: 2017-11-30 18:08:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7117614

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) - The Israeli military aircraft raided Thursday several posts of the Palestinian resistance posts northern and southern Gaza Strip. The planes targeted Buraq post affiliated to Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing ....

PA slams shooting Palestinian near Nablus

Date: 2017-11-30 18:00:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:7117504

RAMALLAH, Nov 30 (MENA) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned the brutal act committed by the Israeli settlers who fatally shot Mahmoud Ahmed Zaal, 45, near Nablus. In a statement, the PA pointed to the heinous assault, saying that it proved ....