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  • Israeli forces detain 25 Palestinians in West Bank

    Date: 2017-07-23 19:20:25 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:6912057

    GAZA CITY, July 23 (MENA) – Israeli forces detained 25 Palestinians overnight across the West Bank as tensions still high in the occupied Al Quds and the West Bank. On Sunday morning, the Shin Bet announced that it made 25 arrests of Palestinians, ....

  • Pope Francis calls for dialogue, moderation amid Al Quds violence

    Date: 2017-07-23 18:44:13 GMT - Vatican - Middle East - SN:42 - ID:6912025

    VATICAN, July 23 (MENA) - Pope Francis said on Sunday he was alarmed by the recent violence in Al Quds and called for dialogue and moderation to help restore peace, The Jerusalem Post reported. “I am following with trepidation the grave tension ....

  • How Daesh nearly stumbled on the ingredients for a ‘dirty bomb’ -- report

    Date: 2017-07-23 18:37:25 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:6912017

    WASHINGTON, July 23 (MENA) – On the day the Daesh group overran the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, it laid claim to one of the greatest weapons bonanzas ever to fall to a terrorist group: a large metropolis dotted with military bases and garrisons ....

  • 6 Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli forces in Al Quds

    Date: 2017-07-23 17:40:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:6911931

    RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) – At least five Palestinians have suffered suffocation as a result of inhaling toxic and tear gas fired by Israeli occupation forces during clashes at Qalandia refugee camp in northern Al Quds, medical sources said on ....

  • 32 Palestinians detained by Israeli forces in WB

    Date: 2017-07-23 12:41:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:26 - ID:6911367

    RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) – Israeli occupation forces have arrested 32 Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank (WB), the Palestinian Prisoner Club said in a statement on Sunday. A Palestinian lawmaker and two female minors were among ....

  • Hamas urged to respond to Palestinian unity efforts

    Date: 2017-07-23 12:37:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:6911352

    RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - The Palestinian national consensus government has renewed calls for Hamas to respond to efforts to achieve unity and set differences aside. Hamas should hand over all government institutions in Gaza to the consensus ....

  • Malaysia condemns clashes between Israeli forces, Palestinians

    Date: 2017-07-23 12:37:10 GMT - Malaysia - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:6911355

    KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 (MENA) - Malaysia has deplored yesterday’s violent clashes between the Israeli security forces and Palestinians in the West Bank, which left three Palestinians dead and many others injured, Bernama news agency reported. In a ....

  • Netanyahu: Ramallah stabber's house to be demolished

    Date: 2017-07-23 11:28:06 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:6911249

    GAZA CITY, July 23 (MENA) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to demolish the house of the Palestinian who stabbed to death three Israelis in Halamish settlement in Ramallah, Yediot Ahronot newspaper reported. Netanyahu said "security ....

  • Palestinian chief justice urges int'l community to intervene to stop Israeli escalations in Quds

    Date: 2017-07-23 09:30:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:6911055

    RAMALLAH, July 23 (MENA) - Palestine Chief Justice and Presidential adviser for religious affairs and Islamic relations Mahmoud al Habbash urged on Sunday the UN and the Security Council to immediately intervene to halt Israeli escalations against ....

  • Quartet voices concern over escalations in Quds

    Date: 2017-07-23 08:48:24 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:6910869

    CAIRO, July 23 (MENA) – The Middle East Quartet expressed deep concern over the escalations taking place in and around al Quds, MENA quoted a statement of the Quartet envoys. The envoys of the Middle East Quartet (Russia, the United States, the ....

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