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  • Palestine's Fatah, Hamas movements sign Egypt-brokered reconciliation deal 2 last Cairo

    Date: 2017-10-12 15:30:35 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:63 - ID:7036076

    Out of Egypt's keenness on the Palestinian issue and President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's determination to fulfill the hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people to end division, promote the internal front and achieve Palestinian unity, Cairo has ....

  • Fatah: We thank Egypt for backing Palestinian people

    Date: 2017-10-12 15:16:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:7036153

    RAMALLAH, Oct 12 (MENA) - Head of Palestinian Fatah Movement's media office Munir al Jaghub thanked Egypt, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, the Egyptian general intelligence and people over their efforts to support the Palestinians. They proved ....

  • Palestine's Fatah, Hamas movements sign Egypt-brokered reconciliation deal

    Date: 2017-10-12 13:10:16 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:42 - ID:7035894

    CAIRO, Oct 12 (MENA) - Palestine's Fatah and Hamas movements on Thursday hammered out a national reconciliation deal ending a years-long division, said an official statement following Egypt-backed meetings held in Cairo. The agreement is based on ....

  • 90 Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

    Date: 2017-10-12 12:18:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:7035866

    RAMALLAH, Oct 12 (MENA) - About 90 Israeli settlers stormed the holy Mosque of Al Aqsa amid tight security by Israeli police, witnesses said Thursday. The settlers stormed the mosque through Al Magarba gate and carried out provocative acts ....

  • 65 gunmen turn themselves in to Assad army - source

    Date: 2017-10-12 08:53:57 GMT - Syria - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:7035333

    DAMASCUS, Oct 12 (MENA) - Sixty-five gunmen affiliated with the Syrian opposition turned themselves in to Assad regime in northern Syria, a Syrian military source said Thursday. Those gunmen belong to an armed that was active in Abu Kaef village ....

  • Palestinian arrested in Israel for planning terror attack - report

    Date: 2017-10-11 17:29:17 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:94 - ID:7034873

    GAZA CITY, Oct 11 (MENA) - Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian who entered Israel and was allegedly planning to carry out a terror attack, Ynetnews cited police as saying on Wednesday. The suspect, a resident of the West Bank city of Tulkarem, ....

  • Israeli authorities close roads as settlers flock to Old City

    Date: 2017-10-11 13:40:45 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:7034341

    RAMALLAH, Oct 11 (MENA) - Israeli authorities closed Wednesday main roads and streets in Silwan village, southern Al Aqsa Mosque to allow the entry of settlers flocking to the Old City in Al Quds (occupied east Jerusalem). The main street in ....

  • Israel to advance plans for nearly 4,000 settler homes: official

    Date: 2017-10-11 13:05:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:64 - ID:7034355

    RAMALLAH, Oct 11 (MENA) - Israel is to advance plans for nearly 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank as part of a push to greatly boost settlement growth, the Daily Mail quoted an Israeli official as saying Tuesday. The approvals are to ....

  • Israeli fires 3 artillery shells into central Gaza

    Date: 2017-10-11 12:52:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:7034277

    GAZA CITY, Oct 11 (MENA) - Israel fired three artillery shells on Abu Safiya area east of al Maghazi, in central Gaza Strip. A patrol affiliated to the Israeli army was shot on Wednesday when it was passing near the eastern borders of the enclave, ....

  • Three Palestinians injured in Nablus

    Date: 2017-10-11 10:23:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:7033912

    RAMALLAH, OCt 11 (MENA) - At least three Palestinians were injured with rubber-coated bullets during fierce clashes with Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday. The clashes flared up after hundreds of Israeli settlers stormed Joseph's tomb, east ....

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