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Israel installs security cameras near holy site

Date: 2017-07-25 07:14:07 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:6914184

RAMALLAH, July 25 (MENA) - Israel has placed CCTV cameras near an entrance to a holy site in Jerusalem as tensions over security measures there continue, the BBC reported. Metal detectors were installed after the killing of two Israeli policemen ....

Netanyahu meets defense chiefs on crisis with Jordan

Date: 2017-07-24 20:33:33 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:6913914

GAZA CITY, July 24 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held consultations with defense chiefs on the crisis at the Israeli embassy in Amman, Yediot Ahronot reported Monday. A security guard from the Israeli Embassy in Amman opened ....

Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2017-07-24 13:17:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:6913030

RAMALLAH, July 24 (MENA) - Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed on Monday the holy Mosque of Al Aqsa through the Mughrabi gate amid tight security measures by Israeli police. About 38 settlers toured freely the mosque and performed Talmudic ....

Israeli occupation denies access of medical teams to Al Quds - PRCS

Date: 2017-07-24 12:54:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:6912903

RAMALLAH, July 24 (MENA) - The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that the Israeli forces are denying access of medical teams affiliated to the PRCS to Al Quds (occupied east Jerusalem). In a press release issued on Monday, the PRCS ....

OIC denies Israel's legal sovereignty on Al Quds, rejects measures against holy mosque

Date: 2017-07-24 12:45:27 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:6912945

CAIRO/JEDDAH, July 24 (MENA) - The closing statement of the committee of permanent delegates to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation released on Monday denounced all punitive measures enforced by Israel since July 14, particularly as regards ....

Israeli wounded in stabbing by Palestinian in Tel Aviv suburb

Date: 2017-07-24 11:07:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:6912629

RAMALLAH, July 24 (MENA) - An Israeli has been wounded in a stabbing by a Palestinian in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva on Monday morning, Haaretz reported quoting the Israeli police. The Magen David Adom emergency service that the man, ....

Clashes erupt between Palestinian youth, Israeli troops near Beit El settlement

Date: 2017-07-24 10:02:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:6912582

RAMALLAH, July 24 (MENA) - Clashes erupted between dozens of Palestinian youth and Israeli troops near a checkpoint leading to Beit El settlement in northern Ramallah Monday. One of the youth was injured by a rubber bullet fired by the Israeli ....

Netanyahu holds urgent meeting to discuss tensions with Jordan

Date: 2017-07-24 09:08:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:6912435

RAMALLAH, July 24 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held an extended urgent meeting with the mini cabinet to discuss the security tensions in the West Bank city of al Quds in the wake of Israeli banning entry of Palestinians to ....

Israeli forces disperse Palestinians in front of Al Aqsa gate

Date: 2017-07-24 08:26:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:6912348

RAMALLAH, July 24 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces dispersed on Monday Palestinians stationed in front of Bab el Majles, a gate leading to al Aqsa Mosque in al Quds city. Local sources told MENA that the occupation troops prevented all ....

Israel shells several sites in eastern Deir al-Balah camp, central Gaza Strip

Date: 2017-07-24 07:51:08 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:6912275

GAZA CITY, July 24 (MENA) - Israeli artillery on Monday launched a number of missiles towards sites in eastern Deir al-Balah camp in central Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported among the Palestinians, according to local sources. Israeli ....