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Turkey orders 139 detained for suspected links to cleric Gulen

Date: 2017-05-24 11:22:49 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:6825602

ANKARA, May 24 (MENA) - Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for 139 public employees who are suspected of links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Turkey of orchestrating last summer's failed coup, ABC News reported ....

Trump envoy to Middle East to visit Israeli Thursday

Date: 2017-05-24 10:55:13 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:6825527

GAZA CITY, May 24 (MENA) - US president Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt will reportedly return to Israel on Thursday for talks in Israel and Ramallah to follow-up Trump's historic two-day visit to Israel, according to Israeli ....

Liberman: Israel does not need permission from Washington to build new settlements

Date: 2017-05-24 09:28:15 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:6825323

GAZA CITY, May 24 (MENA) - Israel doesn’t need permission from Washington to build new homes in West Bank settlements, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Wednesday, adding that plans for several thousand new units could be advanced next ....

Israeli settlers storm Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2017-05-24 08:37:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:6825207

RAMALLAH, May 24 (MENA) - A number of Israeli settlers stormed the halls of Al Aqsa Mosque Wednesday amid tight security by Israeli police. The settlers made provocative tours in the halls of the mosque and performed Talmudic rituals at Bab al ....

Palestinian prisoners' strike continues for 38th day running

Date: 2017-05-24 07:41:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:6825140

RAMALLAH, May 24 (MENA) – The hunger strike of 1,600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails entered the 38th running day on Wednesday. Led by the high-profile Fatah prisoner and leader Marwan Barghouti, prisoners are protesting against their ....

Palestinian youth injured in clashes with Israeli forces in central Gaza Strip

Date: 2017-05-23 21:42:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:112 - ID:6824922

GAZA, May 23 (MENA) – A Palestinian youth was injured in clashes with Israeli occupation forces east of Bureij refugee camp in central the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, WAFA news agency reported. Israeli forces stationed near a military school east of ....

Israeli soldiers open fire on Palestinian girl in east of Ramallah

Date: 2017-05-23 13:40:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:78 - ID:6824163

RAMALLAH, May 23 (MENA) - Israeli soldiers opened fire on a Palestinian girl in east of Ramallah over claims of throwing stones toward the soldiers. The Israeli media outlets reported Tuesday, without mentioning further details. (MENA) N A ....

Health crisis in Gaza has reached hazardous levels: official

Date: 2017-05-23 13:06:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:72 - ID:6824138

GAZA CITY, May 23 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Health warned on Tuesday that the health crisis has reached hazardous levels in the Gaza Strip. Medicines and medical products are in danger after a decision was taken to stop supplying ....

Israel fails to influence int'l, stance on Al Quds

Date: 2017-05-23 12:17:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:6823975

RAMALLAH, May 23 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said Israeli officials are deliberately repeating their antagonistic stances and their racist attitudes towards the occupied city of al Quds in a bid to influence the stances of ....

Dozens of Israeli settlers, extremists storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2017-05-23 11:31:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:6823938

RAMALLAH, May 23 (MENA) - Dozens of Israeli settlers and members of the so-called "Students for the Temple" group stormed the holy mosque of Al Aqsa Tuesday amid tight security measures. Worshippers inside the mosque stood up to them and shouted ....