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  • Police flip former Israeli PM confidant into state witness

    Date: 2017-08-04 16:40:53 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:6930465

    GAZA CITY, Aug 4 (MENA) - A deal was signed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's former chief of staff and confidant Ari Harow Friday which will see him become a state witness in a string of ongoing investigations against Netanyahu involving ....

  • Palestinian official injured as Israeli forces suppress march in Hebron

    Date: 2017-08-04 13:19:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:6930099

    RAMALLAH, Aug 4 (MENA) - Head of Palestine's Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission Walid Assaf was wounded on Friday, when Israeli forces dispersed Palestinian protesters in Kharsa village in southern Al Khalil (Hebron). Local sources said ....

  • Israeli forces beef up security measures around Aqsa Mosque

    Date: 2017-08-04 11:03:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:6929890

    RAMALLAH, Aug 4 (MENA) – Israeli occupation forces stepped up security measures in al Quds (occupied East Jerusalem) ahead of Friday prayers, amid a detention campaign that targeted several Palestinians in the West Bank, including a member of the ....

  • Israeli gunboat violates Lebanese territorial waters off Ras Naqoura

    Date: 2017-08-03 19:54:40 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:6929462

    BEIRUT, Aug 3 (MENA) – An Israeli gunboat violated the Lebanese territorial waters off Ras el Naqoura on Thursday, the Lebanese army said. The gunboat remained in the water for five minutes, the army added in a statement. Violations are a ....

  • Hamas is ready to dissolve administrative committee in Gaza strip

    Date: 2017-08-03 10:11:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:6928225

    GHAZA, Aug 3 (MENA) - Hamas movement on Thursday expressed readiness to dissolve the administrative committee in Gaza strip immediately if the national unity government took over full responsibility of the coastal enclave. In a statement, member ....

  • Israel arrests 18 Palestinians from Quds, WB

    Date: 2017-08-03 07:51:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:6928095

    RAMALLAH, Aug 3 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested Thursday morning 18 Palestinians from al Quds and the West Bank. They were taken to police station for interrogation. (MENA) M I E/S R E ....

  • Palestinian youth stabs Israeli settler near Tel Aviv

    Date: 2017-08-02 12:28:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:6926887

    RAMALLAH, Aug 2 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces detained on Wednesday the Palestinian youth who stabbed an Israeli settler in a settlement near Tel Aviv resulted in serious injury. The 19-year-old Palestinian youth who carried out the ....

  • Groups of settlers storm into Aqsa guarded by Israeli police

    Date: 2017-08-02 07:49:50 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:6926477

    RAMALLAH, Aug 2 (MENA) – Jewish settlers stormed into al Aqsa Mosque from near el Magharba gate on Wednesday guarded by Israeli police. Four groups, comprising 30 or 40 settlers, stormed into the mosque, local sources told MENA. (MENA) M H K/R ....

  • Israeli occupation forces arrest 15 Palestinians, including lawmaker

    Date: 2017-08-02 07:48:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:6926468

    RAMALLAH, Aug 2 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday carried out large-scale arrest campaign in the West Bank cities and arrested 15 Palestinians including a lawmaker. Local sources said Israeli occupation forces pushed deep in Aseira ....

  • Moscow, Tehran coordinate steps to bolster Syria security

    Date: 2017-08-01 17:00:06 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:6926061

    MOSCOW, Aug 1 (MENA) - A top Russian official says Moscow and Tehran continue to coordinate steps to bolster security in Syria and put an end to hostilities in that country, Tehran Times reported Tuesday. Mikhail Bogdanov, the Russian president’s ....

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