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US envoy invited to Beirut to resume maritime border demarcation negotiations

Date: 2022-06-06 09:55:58 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:9607827

BEIRUT, June 6 (MENA) - The Lebanese Cabinet decided to invite US envoy Amos Hochstein to Beirut to continue negotiations over the demarcation of its southern maritime border with Israel, the office of the Lebanese caretaker prime minister said on ....

Israeli army detains 11 Palestinians in WB

Date: 2022-06-06 09:12:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:9607688

RAMALLAH, June 6 (MENA) - The Israeli army detained Monday 11 Palestinians during raids in various areas in the West Bank (WB), WAFA news agency reported quoting Palestinian security sources. Five Palestinians were apprehended in the southern ....

UNOCHA urges supporting Palestinian refugees, preventing demolition of their houses

Date: 2022-06-06 08:09:29 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:9607549

NEW YORK, June 6 (MENA) - The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) called for supporting Palestinian refugees and preventing the demolition of their houses in the West Bank including East Jerusalem. In a statement released ....

Israeli forces continue to consolidate its foothold in West Bank: Palestinian foreign ministry

Date: 2022-06-05 21:32:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:90 - ID:9607203

RAMALLAH, June 5 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation regime continues to consolidate its foothold in the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem (Al-Quds), the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said. In a press release on ....

Jordan stresses importance of maintaining UNRWA's role to provide services to Palestinian refugees

Date: 2022-06-05 17:02:39 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:9606931

AMMAN, June 5 (MENA) – Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi stressed the need for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to continue its UN mandate, aimed at providing vital services ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry says Israeli infiltrations into Al Aqsa will never be "historical fact"

Date: 2022-06-05 11:29:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:43 - ID:9606098

RAMALLAH, June 5 (MENA) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said Sunday that Israeli infiltrations into the Al Aqsa Mosque and settlers’ performance of Talmudic rituals under protection of Israeli police will never be a historical and legal ....

Scores of Israeli settlers break into Al Aqsa

Date: 2022-06-05 09:21:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:9605942

RAMALLAH, June 5 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers, escorted by Israeli police, broke on Sunday into Al Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem and performed rituals across its courtyards, as Muslim worshipers were forced by police to stay ....

Israel detains 5 Palestinians, 6 fishermen from West Bank, Gaza

Date: 2022-06-04 16:44:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:9605338

RAMALLAH, June 4 (MENA) – The Israeli forces detained three Palestinians from the West Bank, two from the Gaza Strip and six fishermen from off the Gaza shore. The detained Palestinians are from Jenin, Bethlehem, Hebron and central Gaza. ....

Palestinians wounded amid clashes with Israeli occupation forces in Nablus, Hebron

Date: 2022-06-03 15:40:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:9603819

RAMALLAH, June 3 (MENA) - A number of Palestinians suffocated on Friday by tear gas fired by Israeli occupation forces during clashes that broke out in the village of Qaryout to the south of Nablus, WAFA reported. Sources said that settlers ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry: Israeli racial legislation deepens apartheid

Date: 2022-06-02 16:38:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:9602148

RAMALLAH, June 2 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates warned that the Israeli racial legislation further widens the existing schism and deepens apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories. In a press ....