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Lapid calls on Netanyahu to step down

Date: 2023-12-17 19:36:08 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:80 - ID:10495031

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Israeli opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid called Sunday on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down. Lapid posted on “X”: “We have a prime minister who lost the confidence of the ....

Hundreds of Palestinians killed, injured as Israeli attacks continue across Gaza

Date: 2023-12-17 19:35:06 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:10495012

GAZA, Dec 17 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation forces continue their aerial and artillery bombardment on various areas of the Gaza Strip, which led to the killing and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, WAFA reported Sunday. Local sources ....

French FM: Settler violence undermines possibilities of political solution

Date: 2023-12-17 18:49:54 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:10495011

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said Sunday settlers’ violence in the occupied West Bank undermines the prospects of reaching a political solution, which is something against the Israelis. During her visit to ....

Siege of Kamal Adwan hospital leaves 8 injured Palestinians dead

Date: 2023-12-17 13:26:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:10494393

GAZA, Dec 17 (MENA) - Head of the Department of Pediatrics at Kamal Adwan hospital Dr. Hossam Abu Safia Sunday said the death toll among wounded patients treated at the hospital has soared to eight, due to the ongoing siege of the hospital, denying ....

Israeli occupation forces arrest 20 Palestinians in West Bank

Date: 2023-12-17 11:29:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:10494321

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces have arrested at least 20 Palestinians in the West Bank since Saturday night. The arrests were made in the governorates of Hebron, Beit Lehem, Nablus, Ramallah and Tulkarm in the occupied West ....

Palestinian presidential spox assails Netanyahu's statements on Palestinian state

Date: 2023-12-17 10:34:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:10494222

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Spokesman for Palestinian presidency Nabil Abu Rudeineh has lashed out at statements made by Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on preventing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. In statements ....

French foreign minister calls for lasting truce in Gaza

Date: 2023-12-17 10:21:34 GMT - France - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:10494221

PARIS, Dec 17 (MENA) - French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, on a diplomatic tour, called for an 'immediate and durable' truce in Gaza, with a view to a lasting ceasefire. Colonna met her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen in Tel Aviv, as Israel ....

Barghouti appeals to world to face Israel's brutal aggression on Palestinians 2 last Ramallah

Date: 2023-12-17 10:09:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:10494082

Barghouti described the crimes committed by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as a major massacre. He lauded the steadfastness of the Gazans in the face of the Israeli's aggression despite the brutal crimes being committed ....

Scores of Palestinians killed in Israeli shelling

Date: 2023-12-17 10:02:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:10494185

GAZA CITY, Dec 17 (MENA) - At least 47 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes over the last few hours which targeted civilian houses in the town of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, and in Deir el-Balah refugee camp in the ....

Barghouti appeals to world to face Israel's brutal aggression on Palestinians

Date: 2023-12-17 09:48:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:10494093

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) Mustafa Barghouti has slammed Israel's continued aggression on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which continued without any deterrence from the ....