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Israel privately urging Trump to back down from UNRWA funding threat

Date: 2018-01-05 14:03:28 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:7175883

GAZA, Jan 5 (MENA) - Israeli Foreign Ministry, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has privately urged US President Donald Trump's administration to back down from its threat to cease funding for the Palestinian refugee aid organization UNRWA ....

4-magnitude earthquake hits Iran

Date: 2018-01-05 12:11:23 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:7175597

TEHRAN, Jan 5 (MENA) - A 4-magnitude earthquake hit the city of Qasr-e Shirin in the western Province of Kermanshah on Friday morning. Seismography Center affiliated to Tehran University's Geophysics Institute reported the location of the quake ....

Mattis: Iran failed to remove irritants, dissatisfaction

Date: 2018-01-05 09:20:25 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7175337

WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (MENA) - US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said on Friday that Iran has obviously failed in removing the irritants and dissatisfaction of the Iranian people. “We -- the American people -- do not have an issue with the Iranian ....

Israel approves new settlement plans in WB

Date: 2018-01-05 06:49:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:7175300

RAMALLAH, Jan 5 (MENA) - Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has approved a new plan to expand Israeli settlements and housing units in all parts of the occupied West Bank. The Israeli government offered earlier 900 new housing units in the ....

Erekat: US administration impose solutions on Palestinians

Date: 2018-01-04 12:12:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:7174099

RAMALLAH, Jan 4 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat said what the Trump administration is actually doing is moving to a new stage namely imposing solutions on the Palestinian people. These solutions ....

Palestine slams Israeli bill on execution of Palestinian detainees

Date: 2018-01-04 11:24:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:7173927

RAMALLAH, Jan 4 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned on Thursday the Israel Knesset's preliminary approval of a bill to execute Palestinian detainees. The draft law is part of Israel's arbitrary actions against the Palestinian ....

Jewish settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2018-01-04 11:16:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:7173844

RAMALLAH, Jan 4 (MENA) - A group of Jewish settlers stormed Thursday Al Aqsa Mosque compound through Al Magharba gate, under the protection of the occupation forces, according to eyewitnesses. The settlers took provocative tours at the mosque's ....

Knesset approval on draft law on executing Palestinians racist crime

Date: 2018-01-04 11:03:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:7173873

RAMALLAH, Jan 4 (MENA) - Palestinian Minister of Justice Ali Abu Diak said that the approval of the Israeli Knesset on a draft law on executing the Palestinians comes within the framework of state terror, war crimes, aggression and crimes against ....

Israeli warplanes raid agricultural lands in Gaza Strip

Date: 2018-01-04 09:15:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7173646

GAZA CITY, Jan 4 (MENA) - Israeli warplanes dropped on Thursday four rockets on agricultural lands in Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip. The aerial bombardment left no casualties, Palestinian radio stations said. On Wednesday, Israeli media ....

Three mortar shells fired at Eshkol as sirens fail to blare

Date: 2018-01-03 20:40:41 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:7173292

GAZA CITY, Jan 3 (MENA) - Three mortar shells were fired from the Gaza Strip at the Eshkol Regional Council on Wednesday just hours apart, all of which landing in open, uninhabited fields. No injuries or damage were reported, according to ....