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

Date: 2023-05-14 07:58:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:10156545

RAMALLAH, May 14 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed Al Aqsa Mosque Sunday under protection of Israeli occupation troops, Palestinian sources said. Israeli settlers broke into the mosque from Bab al-Maghariba Gate, performed Talmudic ....

Turkish presidential, parliamentary elections start

Date: 2023-05-14 07:55:18 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:10156548

ANKARA, May 14 (MENA) - Polling stations have opened across Turkey on Sunday for crucial parliamentary and presidential elections, TRT World channel said. Roughly 64 million people are eligible to vote, including nearly 5 million first-time ....

UN welcomes ceasefire between Gaza, Israel

Date: 2023-05-14 07:28:23 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:10156483

NEW YORK, May 14 (MENA) - UN Mideast peace envoy Tor Wennesland welcomed on Sunday the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza, calling on all sides to abide by the agreement. He hoped for facilitating the ....

Israeli forces storm Old Town in Nablus

Date: 2023-05-14 05:48:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:10156398

RAMALLAH, May 14 (MENA) - Israeli forces broke into the Old Town in Nablus on Sunday. Eyewitnesses said the occupation forces are surrounding a house in the Old Town. The Palestinian Red Crescent said one person suffered from tear gas ....

PLO thanks Egypt over role in reaching ceasefire

Date: 2023-05-13 21:24:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:10156249

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) – The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) thanked Egypt for its great role in reaching a ceasefire between the Palestinian and Israeli sides. In statements on Saturday, secretary-general of the PLO's executive ....

Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian youth in West Bank

Date: 2023-05-13 18:09:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:48 - ID:10156060

RAMALLAH, Ma 13 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation forces on Saturday shot dead a Palestinian young man at Rihan military checkpoint stationed in the southwest of Jenin city, northern the occupied West Bank. According to Palestinian security ....

5 Palestinians injured in Israeli occupation airstrikes in Gaza

Date: 2023-05-13 14:16:28 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:10155622

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - At least five Palestinians, including three children, were injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes today on the fifth day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, WAFA reported Sunday. Israeli warplanes attacked an ....

Palestinian Resistance launches airstrikes toward Southern Israel

Date: 2023-05-13 13:46:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:10155632

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - The Palestinian Resistance on Saturday continued targeting Israeli settlements and other southern Israeli cities with rockets, in retaliation for the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip for the fifth consecutive ....

2 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrike in western Gaza

Date: 2023-05-12 17:56:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:10154438

RAMALLAH, May 12 (MENA) - At least two Palestinians were killed and ten others were injured on Friday after an Israeli airstrike struck an apartment in Al Nasr district in western the Gaza Strip. Some 33 Palestinians, including women and ....

Netanyahu's decision to attack Gaza Strip 'way to extricate himself from his own crises': PLO official

Date: 2023-05-12 15:20:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:10154436

RAMALLAH, May 12 (MENA) - The decision of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attack the Gaza Strip represents a way to extricate himself from the political vertigo he found himself in, especially after losing his popularity, said Palestine ....