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4 Palestinians injured in suicide bombing in southern Gaza

Date: 2017-08-17 07:37:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:6948569

GAZA CITY, Aug 17 (MENA) - Four Palestinians were injured in the wee hours of Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up on the southern borderline of the Gaza Strip, east of the Rafah crossing with Egypt. One of those injured is in critical ....

UNRWA says providing aid to 1.3 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza

Date: 2017-08-16 22:33:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:6948424

GAZA CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Wednesday said it is providing aid to around 1.3 million Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the UNRWA said an increase ....

Egypt to supervise fund to transfer aid to Gaza Strip

Date: 2017-08-16 22:24:07 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:6948416

CAIRO, Aug 16 (MENA) - Arab countries including the UAE will transfer $15 million a month as off September to a takaful (solidarity) committee in the Gaza Strip, a Fatah senior member said on Wednesday. The aid will be channeled via a fund to be ....

Kuwaiti Defense Minister visits Turkey

Date: 2017-08-16 14:16:16 GMT - Kuwait - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:6947769

KUWAIT CITY, Aug 16 (MENA) - Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mohamed Al Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah and his accompanying delegation headed to Turkey on Wednesday. During the visit, Kuwait and Ankara will hold talks on issues of ....

Palestinian PM presides over meeting to deal with challenges

Date: 2017-08-16 12:29:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:6947533

RAMALLAH, Aug 16 (MENA) - Palestinian Prime Minister Ramy Al Hamdallah presided over on Wednesday a meeting of the crisis cell committee to discuss plans to confront risks and challenges. In statements, the prime minister stressed the importance of ....

Israeli occupation forces detain 11 Palestinians in West Bank

Date: 2017-08-16 12:22:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:6947407

RAMALLAH, Aug 16 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces detained 11 Palestinians from the West Bank since Tuesday till the dawn of Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner Club said. In a statement on Wednesday, the Palestinian Prisoner Club said that ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns demolition of houses in Al Quds

Date: 2017-08-16 12:18:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:6947224

RAMALLAH, Aug 16 (MENA)- The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly expressed condemnation of the demolition of Palestinians' houses in Al Quds. Israeli occupation forces demolished houses and property that were allegedly built without ....

Israeli army demolishes home of Halamish attacker

Date: 2017-08-16 07:11:27 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:6946887

RAMALLAH, Aug 16 (MENA) - Israeli forces demolished early Wednesday the house of Omar Abdel Gelil al Abed, a 19-year-old Ramallah resident who stabbed and killed three Israeli settlers in the settlement of Halamish north of Ramallah on July ....

Palestine's Erekat calls on Int'l community to adopt two-state solution

Date: 2017-08-15 16:11:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:6946226

RAMALLAH, Aug 15 (MENA)- Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee Saeb Erekat said that the international community ought to adopt the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders and to compel the Israeli ....

Israel delegation to Washington for White House talks on Syria later this week

Date: 2017-08-15 14:01:26 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:6946224

GAZA CITY, Aug 15 (MENA) - A delegation of Israeli defense officials will visit Washington later this week for talks with senior White House and American defense officials, Haaretz reported Tuesday. The delegation will be headed by Mossad chief ....