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Pompeo slams Biden Iran prisoner swap deal as ‘very dangerous’

Date: 2023-08-13 17:22:25 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:10298551

WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (MENA) - Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo criticized a possible Biden administration prisoner exchange deal with Iran, The Hill reported Sunday. “It’s really dangerous,” Pompeo said. “It’s dangerous for the Gulf ....

Israeli settlers raid school near Ramallah, occupation forces detain 8 Palestinians

Date: 2023-08-13 12:11:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:10298115

RAMALLAH, Aug 13 (MENA) - Israeli occupation settlers Sunday raided Al-Tahadi School in Wadi Al-Siq Bedouin community, to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, and vandalized many of its contents, Wafa news agency reported quoting ....

Palestine welcomes appointment of first Saudi ambassador

Date: 2023-08-13 08:42:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10297789

RAMALLAH, Aug 13 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry welcomed on Sunday King Salman ben Abdel Aziz's decision to name the kingdom's first non-resident ambassador for the Palestinian territories, who will also serve as consul general in ....

Settlers storm Aqsa Mosque anew

Date: 2023-08-13 07:12:43 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:10297632

RAMALLAH, Aug 13 (MENA) - Dozens of settlers, heavily guarded by Israeli forces, stormed on Sunday Al Aqsa Mosque compound through Al Maghariba gate. The settlers performed Talmudic rituals while occupation forces were deployed at the gates to ....

Israel detains two Palestinian fishermen off Gaza coast

Date: 2023-08-12 09:46:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:10296683

RAMALLAH, Aug 12 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation navy forces today intercepted a Palestinian fishing boat while sailing off the northern Gaza coast, detained two fishermen, one of them 14 years old, and seized their boat, reported WAFA ....

Four Palestinians shot, injured as Israeli forces violently quell Kafr Qaddoum demonstration

Date: 2023-08-11 15:01:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:10296107

RAMALLAH, Aug 11 (MENA) - At least four Palestinians were shot and injured by rubber-coated steel bullets as Israeli forces violently suppressed on Friday the anti-settlement weekly demonstration in Kafr Qaddoum village to the east of ....

Daesh kills 23 Syrian soldiers in overnight attack: SOHR

Date: 2023-08-11 14:18:40 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:10296038

LONDON, Aug 11 (MENA) - In an overnight assault on a military bus in the Deir ez-Zor region, Daesh claimed the lives of 23 Syrian soldiers, as reported by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The attack took place in the ....

Palestinian killed, 4 injured by Israeli gunfire in Tulkarm

Date: 2023-08-11 07:43:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:10295413

RAMALLAH, Aug 11 (MENA) – A Palestinian was killed and four others were injured by Israeli army gunfire last night in an Israeli military raid of Tulkarm refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank, WAFA reported. Mahmoud Jihad Jarad, ....

Palestine says to present file to ICC on killing of 19-year-old Qusai Maatan by Israeli settlers

Date: 2023-08-10 17:12:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:65 - ID:10294671

RAMALLAH, Aug 10 (MENA) – The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said it is preparing an integrated file on the murder of Qusai Maatan, a 19-year-old Palestinian, during an attack mounted by Israeli settlers on Burqa village ....

PNC: Escalated killing operations of Palestinians crimes schemed by Israeli occupants

Date: 2023-08-10 17:10:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:10294682

RAMALLAH, 10 Aug (MENA) - The Palestine National Council (PNC) asserted that the recurrent and escalation in the execution operations carried out against Palestinians on the hands of Israeli squads from the occupation forces are crimes that are ....