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  • Abbas stresses need to stop ongoing Israeli aggression against Palestinian people

    Date: 2023-12-20 19:37:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:78 - ID:10500434

    RAMALLAH, Dec 20 (MENA) - President Mahmoud Abbas received on Wednesday a French delegation headed by Gerard Larcher, President of the French Senate, at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah. During the meeting, the President stressed the ....

  • Russia sends another batch of aid for Gaza residents

    Date: 2023-12-20 17:23:08 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:10500276

    CAIRO, Dec 20 (MENA) - The Russian Emergencies Ministry has delivered to Egypt more than 18 tons of humanitarian aid for the population of the Gaza Strip, the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry told TASS. "An IL-76 aircraft of the ....

  • Palestinian teenager succumbs to his injuries in Bethlehem

    Date: 2023-12-20 17:07:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:10500231

    RAMALLAH, Dec 20 (MENA) - A Palestinian teenager died on Wednesday of wounds he sustained during Israeli storming of a village in western Bethlehem, Palestinian medical and security sources said. The boy got a bullet in the neck. During the ....

  • More than 40 killed in Israeli bombings in Gaza

    Date: 2023-12-20 16:58:50 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:62 - ID:10500245

    GAZA CITY, Dec 20 (MENA) - More than 40 Palestinians were killed and dozens more were injured Wednesday evening in an Israeli bombing on the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. Local sources said that 32 people were ....

  • Jordanian FM, US Secretary of State engage in talks on Gaza

    Date: 2023-12-20 11:03:38 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:10499299

    AMMAN, Dec 20 (MENA) - Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi received a phone call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken last evening, Petra reported Wednesday. The call, a follow-up to recent discussions in Washington, focused on ....

  • Scores of settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque under protection of Israeli occupation troops

    Date: 2023-12-20 09:35:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:10499088

    RAMALLAH, Dec 20 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers guarded by police stormed Al Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday, in what has become a routine occurrence. The Israeli settlers raided the holy Islamic Mosque from Al ....

  • All sides in Middle East must re-engage on path to two-State solution: UN peace envoy

    Date: 2023-12-19 23:01:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:10498740

    NEW YORK/RAMALLAH, Dec 19 (MENA) - UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said all sides in the Middle East must re-engage on the path to the two-state solution. Even with war raging in Gaza, it is critical at ....

  • UNSC again delays vote on Gaza resolution calling for 'urgent suspension of hostilities'

    Date: 2023-12-19 22:59:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:89 - ID:10498739

    NEW YORK/RAMALLAH, Dec 19 (MENA) - A UN Security Council vote on a resolution calling for a pause to the Israel-Hamas war was postponed again Tuesday, as members wrangled over wording while aid efforts in the Gaza Strip neared collapse. A draft ....

  • UK warship joins US-led int'l force to combat attacks on ships in Red Sea

    Date: 2023-12-19 22:34:18 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:10498724

    LONDON, Dec 19 (MENA) - A UK warship has joined a multinational naval force in the Red Sea to protect ships from attacks. The 'HMS Diamond,' one of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships, has been mobilized in the southern Red Sea alongside ....

  • Only functioning hospital in northern Gaza stops operating after Israeli raid

    Date: 2023-12-19 21:37:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:84 - ID:10498720

    GAZA, Dec 19 (MENA) - The last functioning hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, has stopped operating following an Israeli army raid targeting it tonight, WAFA reported on ....

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