Middle East
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Hamas urged to respond to Palestinian unity efforts
Date: 2017-07-23 12:37:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:6911352
RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - The Palestinian national consensus government has renewed calls for Hamas to respond to efforts to achieve unity and set differences aside. Hamas should hand over all government institutions in Gaza to the consensus ....
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Malaysia condemns clashes between Israeli forces, Palestinians
Date: 2017-07-23 12:37:10 GMT - Malaysia - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:6911355
KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 (MENA) - Malaysia has deplored yesterday’s violent clashes between the Israeli security forces and Palestinians in the West Bank, which left three Palestinians dead and many others injured, Bernama news agency reported. In a ....
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Netanyahu: Ramallah stabber's house to be demolished
Date: 2017-07-23 11:28:06 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:6911249
GAZA CITY, July 23 (MENA) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to demolish the house of the Palestinian who stabbed to death three Israelis in Halamish settlement in Ramallah, Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported. Netanyahu said "security ....
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Palestinian chief justice urges int'l community to intervene to stop Israeli escalations in Quds
Date: 2017-07-23 09:30:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:6911055
RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - Palestine Chief Justice and Presidential adviser for religious affairs and Islamic relations Mahmoud al Habbash urged on Sunday the UN and the Security Council to immediately intervene to halt Israeli escalations against ....
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Quartet voices concern over escalations in Quds
Date: 2017-07-23 08:48:24 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:6910869
CAIRO, July 23 (MENA) – The Middle East Quartet expressed deep concern over the escalations taking place in and around al Quds, MENA quoted a statement of the Quartet envoys. The envoys of the Middle East Quartet (Russia, the United States, the ....
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Israeli jets fly over Gaza
Date: 2017-07-23 08:47:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:6910990
GAZA CITY, July 23 (MENA) - Israeli F 16 jets and drones have been flying at low altitude over Gaza since the early hours of Sunday. The Israeli army, meanwhile, claimed that two rockets had been fired from the northern Gaza Strip toward ....
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Israeli forces arrest Hamas leaders, activists in West Bank
Date: 2017-07-23 08:13:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:6910974
RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - Israeli forces launched on Sunday a wide-scale arrest campaign in the West Bank that targeted a number of Hamas leaders and activists, local media sources said. The occupation forces detained Finance Minister in the ....
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Assad forces on outskirts of Euphrates River
Date: 2017-07-23 06:47:33 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:6910877
DAMASCUS, July 23 (MENA) - Assad forces scored another advance in the southeastern countryside of Al Raqqa after capturing a number of villages that were under the control of militants, Syrian activists said Sunday. The new advance made the army ....
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Israeli reconnaissance aircraft violates Lebanese airspace
Date: 2017-07-22 22:11:09 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:101 - ID:6910775
BEIRUT, Jul 22 (MENA) - An Israeli reconnaissance plane violated the Lebanese airspace over the town of Rmaich and circled over the southern regions, the Lebanese army command said in a statement Saturday. The plane then left the Lebanese ....
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Clashes escalate south of Al Aqsa, occupation use stun grenades
Date: 2017-07-22 21:44:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:100 - ID:6910774
ŮŚRAMALLAH, July 22 (MENA) - Clashes have escalated Saturday between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces in Silwan neighborhood on the southern outskirts of the Old City of Jerusalem. Witnesses told MENA that the occupation forces use new ....