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Hamas balks at Israeli raids on Gaza Strip as "major escalation"

Date: 2017-08-09 06:40:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:6936382

GAZA CITY, Aug 9 (MENA) - Hamas balked at Tuesday's Israeli shelling of Hamas resistance posts, considering this as a major escalation. Hamas Spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Israel should bear the consequences of the attack. A number of Palestinians ....

Palestinians injured in Israeli air strikes on Gaza Strip

Date: 2017-08-09 06:37:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:9 - ID:6936384

GAZA CITY, Aug 9 (MENA) - A number of Palestinians were injured in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip late Tuesday. Three cases checked into hospital, including one in a serious condition, local sources told MENA. The Israeli army spokesman said ....

Israeli soldier wounded by friendly fire in Bethlehem

Date: 2017-08-09 06:24:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:6936409

RAMALLAH, Aug 9 (MENA) - An Israeli soldier was moderately injured Tuesday night during an operation in Dheisheh Palestinian Refugee Camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian sources said. The Israeli army said the soldier was ....

Explosion heard near Lebanese-Palestinian borders

Date: 2017-08-08 22:34:16 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:6936323

BEIRUT, Aug 8 (MENA) - An explosion was heard late on Tuesday near the border line between Lebanon and Palestine, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. Israeli patrols combed the area before the explosion, it said. (MENA) M I N/M A F ....

86 Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2017-08-08 11:33:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:6935087

RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) – Nearly 86 Israeli settlers stormed the holy Mosque of Al Aqsa on Tuesday amid tight security measures by Israeli police. The settlers stormed the mosque through Al Magarba gate and carried out provocative acts inside ....

HRW: Palestinian Jerusalemites stripped of status

Date: 2017-08-08 11:31:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:6935169

RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) - Human Rights Watch said Tuesday that Israel’s revocations of the residency status of thousands of Palestinians from East Jerusalem over the years illustrates the two-tiered system Israel maintains in the city. The ....

Israeli bulldozers destroy house in Jerusalem

Date: 2017-08-08 10:32:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:6935149

RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) - Israeli occupation bulldozers razed a house in Jabal al Makbar in Jerusalem to the ground early on Tuesday. Large Israeli troops, police dogs, municipality teams and bulldozers destroyed a house in al Rabayaa neighborhood ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry welcomes HRW report on Israeli practices

Date: 2017-08-08 10:31:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:6935147

RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday welcomed a report by Human Rights Watch uncovering the racial discrimination practices by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinians in Al Quds city. In a ....

Wafa: Israel committed 66 violations against Palestinian journalists in July

Date: 2017-08-08 09:58:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:6935110

RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) - The Palestinian news agency WAFA said Israel committed 66 violations against Palestinian journalists in July. In a monthly report on Israeli violations against journalists, Wafa said Israel escalated the situation against ....

11 Palestinians arrested from West Bank

Date: 2017-08-08 09:34:57 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:6935097

RAMALLAH, Aug 8 (MENA) - Israeli occupation troops arrested 11 Palestinian nationals from the West Bank at dawn Tuesday. Nine youths from Jenin, including the siblings of martyr Diaa Salama, namely Nour, Amir and Ahmed Mohamed Salama, were ....