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Israel hits northern Gaza with artillery

Date: 2017-11-30 16:03:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7117506

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) - Israel artillery bombed at least three shells on two Palestinian posts and an agricultural plot of land located northern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said that the tanks of the Israeli forces deployed on the ....

UN seeks urgent medical evacuation of 500 from Syria's eastern Ghouta

Date: 2017-11-30 15:35:58 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7117370

GENEVA, Nov 30 (MENA) - The UN humanitarian adviser for Syria called on world powers on Thursday to help arrange the evacuation of 500 people, including 167 children, from the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta, saying it has become a ....

Iraqi forces kill 6 Daesh members in western Kirkuk

Date: 2017-11-30 11:57:52 GMT - Iraq - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7117101

BAGHDAD, Nov 30 (MENA) - Commander of Kirkuk operations Major General Ali Fadel Omran said Thursday six members of Daesh terrorist group were killed during a security operation in western Kirkuk. The operation was carried out by the Iraqi army ....

Palestinian shot dead by Israeli settlers in Nablus

Date: 2017-11-30 10:55:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7116959

RAMALLAH, Nov 30 (MENA) - A Palestinian farmer was shot dead on Thursday by Israeli settlers while working in his land near the village of Qusra, southern Nablus in the West Bank, according to medical sources. Mahmoud Zaal Odeh died of his wounds ....

EU says needs concrete evidence from Turkey to deem Gulen network as terrorist

Date: 2017-11-30 09:24:40 GMT - Belgium - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7116833

BRUSSELS, Nov 30 (MENA) - The European Union (EU) does not share Turkey’s view that the network of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen is a terrorist organization and would need to see “substantive” evidence to change its stance, the EU’s ....

4 Palestinians injured as Israeli planes drop unknown substance in south Gaza

Date: 2017-11-29 22:00:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:7116497

GAZA CITY, Nov 29 (MENA) – Four Palestinians were injured when Israeli aircraft dropped an unknown substance over the north-eastern part of Rafah province in southern the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said on Wednesday. The four Palestinians ....

Israeli forces detain 2 Palestinian youths in Tel Aviv

Date: 2017-11-29 17:53:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:7116215

RAMALLAH, Nov 29 (MENA) - Israeli troops nabbed Wednesday two Palestinian youths in Tel Aviv under the pretext of possessing a knife. Israeli security elements searched the two young men and allegedly found a knife in a bag in their possession, ....

Israeli army forces detain 25 Palestinians in West Bank

Date: 2017-11-29 10:54:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:7115346

RAMALLAH, Nov 29 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 25 Palestinians, including a child, from several districts across the West Bank, said the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). The PPS said Israeli forces detained six Palestinians from ....

Israeli forces arrest Aqsa mosque guard

Date: 2017-11-29 07:55:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:7114945

RAMALLAH, Nov 29 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested early Wednesday one of the guards of Al Aqsa mosque in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem. Eyewitnesses said the forces arrested Hamza Numr while heading for his work at Sabil Bab al Silsila. ....

Turkey issues warrants for 360 people amid Gulen army unit probe

Date: 2017-11-29 07:03:11 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:7114910

ANKARA, Nov 29 (MENA) - Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 360 people in an operation targeting supporters of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen within the army, broadcaster CNN Turk reported on Wednesday. The operation was ....