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Coptic Orthodox Church condemns US plan to recognize al Quds as capital of Israel

Date: 2017-12-06 08:09:27 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:7125661

CAIRO, Dec 6 (MENA) - The Coptic Orthodox Church has voiced great concern about media reports pertaining to a US intention to recognize al Quds as a capital of Israel. This step violates all international conventions about al Quds, the Church ....

US issues travel warning for Jerusalem's Old City, WB amid embassy row

Date: 2017-12-05 20:59:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:7125454

RAMALLAH, Dec 5 (MENA) - The US Consulate General in Jerusalem issued on Tuesday a travel warning calling on American citizens living in the city not to travel to the Old City or the West Bank after Palestinians announced plans for three days of ....

Arab Knesset member calls Trump decision on Jerusalem as “political attack”

Date: 2017-12-05 20:09:55 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:85 - ID:7125393

GAZA CITY, Dec 5 (MENA) - An Arab member of Knesset has called US President Donald Trump's plans to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and start the process of moving the US embassy to Jerusalem a "political attack," the Jerusalem Post reported ....

UN opposed to unilateral action on Jerusalem

Date: 2017-12-05 19:46:08 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:7125394

NEW YORK, Dec 5 (MENA) - The UN said Tuesday Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opposes any unilateral action on Jerusalem that could undermine a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ABC News reported. UN spokesman Stephane ....

Palestine’s presidency rejects moving US embassy to Al Quds

Date: 2017-12-05 19:06:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:81 - ID:7125296

RAMALLAH, Dec 5 (MENA) – The Palestinian Presidency has expressed its total rejection of Washington’s decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Al Quds, asserting it will have serious repercussions on the Middle East peace process. In a ....

Trump informs Abbas he intends to move US embassy to Jerusalem

Date: 2017-12-05 17:05:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:7125105

RAMALLAH, Dec 5 (MENA) - US President Donald Trump informed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that he plans to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem during a phone call with the leader Tuesday, according to Abass' spokesman ....

Palestinians call for popular wrath to face US' attempt to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital

Date: 2017-12-05 14:25:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7124666

RAMALLAH, Dec 5 (MENA) - Palestinian fractions stressed Tuesday that the policy of US President Donald Trump which they described as based on political blackmailing will destroy his ability to achieve his plans in the region. The Palestinian ....

Our people will resist any attempt to touch Al Quds -- Palestinian gov't

Date: 2017-12-05 13:18:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:7124497

RAMALLAH, Dec 5 (MENA) - The Palestinian Cabinet called on all segments of the Palestinian people wherever they are to express their rejection to US' measures to move its embassy to occupied East Jerusalem or recognize the holy city as the capital ....

Israel detains 8 Palestinians in West Bank

Date: 2017-12-05 13:02:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:7124503

RAMALLAH, Dec 5 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation forces arrested Tuesday eight Palestinian citizens in different districts in West Bank. A statement by the Palestinian Prisoners Club said the Israeli forces detained three citizens from Ramallah, ....

Israeli settlers, intelligence personnel storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2017-12-05 13:02:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:7124498

RAMALLAH, Dec 5 (MENA) - Groups of Jewish settlers and Israeli intelligence personnel stormed Tuesday morning Al Aqsa Mosque from Al Magharba Gate under strict security protection from the Israeli forces. Eyewitness said that the settlers ....