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Palestinian youth wounded in Qusra by settlers

Date: 2017-12-01 06:37:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:7117923

RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth was injured Thursday when clashes erupted between Palestinians and settlers who stormed, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, Qusra village, southern Nablus. Scores of settlers from ....

3 Palestinians hurt in Israeli rocket attack in southern Gaza

Date: 2017-11-30 20:32:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:7117722

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) – Three Palestinians were injured when Israeli F-16 jets launched four rockets on a post in southern the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses said on Thursday. The three wounded Palestinians were moved to Al Shifaa Hospital in ....

Israeli ministers threaten major Italian bike race over Jerusalem wording

Date: 2017-11-30 18:51:31 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:7117646

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) - Israeli officials threatened to drop their partnership in the first stage of the Giro d’Italia after organizers of the prestigious cycling event referred to the start of the race as in “west Jerusalem.” The first day of ....

Israeli jets shell resistance posts in northern, southern Gaza Strip

Date: 2017-11-30 18:08:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7117614

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) - The Israeli military aircraft raided Thursday several posts of the Palestinian resistance posts northern and southern Gaza Strip. The planes targeted Buraq post affiliated to Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing ....

PA slams shooting Palestinian near Nablus

Date: 2017-11-30 18:00:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:7117504

RAMALLAH, Nov 30 (MENA) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned the brutal act committed by the Israeli settlers who fatally shot Mahmoud Ahmed Zaal, 45, near Nablus. In a statement, the PA pointed to the heinous assault, saying that it proved ....

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 ....