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Israel targets Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza

Date: 2018-02-01 08:46:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7221544

GAZA, Feb 1 (MENA) - The Israeli navy targeted on Thursday morning Palestinian fishing boats off the northern shores of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said that Israeli gunboats chased the Palestinian fishing boats, shot at them and splashed ....

Israel detains 20 Palestinians from West Bank, Quds

Date: 2018-02-01 08:41:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:7221503

RAMALLAH, Feb 1 (MENA) - The Israeli army detained 20 Palestinians in a search-and-arrest campaign it mounted at dawn on Thursday targeting different areas in the occupied West Bank and Al Quds. Seven youth were detained from Jenin, eight from ....

German FM lashes out at Israel over two-state solution

Date: 2018-01-31 22:41:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:111 - ID:7221187

GAZA CITY, Jan 31 (MENA) - German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel expressed concern Wednesday about the growing distance within Israel's current government from the two-state solution. It exhibits "at best mixed signals [which] do not go ....

Israeli minister calls for targeting Iran, not just its terror proxies

Date: 2018-01-31 21:59:06 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:108 - ID:7220666

GAZA CITY, Jan 31 (MENA) - Israel must immediately change its strategy and take action against Iran when there are attacks from Hezbollah and Syria, security cabinet member Naftali Bennett said Wednesday at the Institute for National Security ....

Hamas rejects US decision on blacklisting Ismail Haniyeh

Date: 2018-01-31 20:12:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:102 - ID:7221150

GAZA CITY, Jan 31 (MENA) – Hamas rejected Wednesday the US Department of State’s decision, blacklisting the movement’s Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh among the world's terrorists. Such a decision violated the international norms and laws and ....

3 sentenced to life in Turkey for attack that killed Germans

Date: 2018-01-31 17:00:35 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:91 - ID:7221018

ANKARA, Jan 31 (MENA) - A court in Istanbul sentenced three people to life prison terms on Wednesday for their involvement in a Daesh group suicide bombing in 2016 at Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district that killed 12 German tourists, ABC News ....

Palestinian diplomats: New tracks to be adopted in Palestinian cause

Date: 2018-01-31 14:07:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:7220250

RAMALLAH, Jan 31 (MENA) - Palestinian Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union Abdel Rahim Al Farra has revealed that new tracks will be adopted by the EU towards the Palestinian cause in the coming stage. In statements to Voice of Palestine ....

Dozens of settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2018-01-31 12:14:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:7220213

RAMALLAH, Jan 31 (MENA) - Dozens of settlers stormed Wednesday Al Aqsa Mosque from Mughrabi gate under tight security measures by the Israeli forces. Eyewitnesses said that the settlers toured the holy site and received explanations about the ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry: Silence over Abu Naim's execution stain on forehead of humanity

Date: 2018-01-31 12:14:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7220140

RAMALLAH, Jan 31 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the crime of field execution of Laith Abu Naim, 16, by the Israeli forces. In a press release on Wednesday, the ministry underlined that the crime ....

Israel detains 12 Palestinians from West Bank, Quds

Date: 2018-01-31 10:42:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:7219878

RAMALLAH, Jan 31 (MENA) - Israeli forces detained 12 Palestinians at dawn on Wednesday during incursions in the West Bank and al Quds. In northwestern al Quds, the forces detained the mother and the 14-year-old sister of martyr Mohamed ....