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Palestinian PM condemns Israeli killings in Jenin

Date: 2023-01-19 12:28:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:9976168

RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (MENA) - Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh today condemned the Israeli criminal act Thursday morning in the northern West Bank city of Jenin that left two Palestinians dead, one of them 57 years of age and a father of six children, ....

PNC head condemns killing two Palestinians in Jenin

Date: 2023-01-19 12:11:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:9975783

RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (MENA) - Speaker of the Palestinian National Council (PNC) Rawhi Fattouh condemned on Thursday Israel's killing of two Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. He held the Israeli government responsible for this ....

Journalist among 15 Palestinians detained by Israeli occupation forces in the occupied territories

Date: 2023-01-19 10:56:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:30 - ID:9975729

RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (MENA) - The Israeli occupation army detained 15 Palestinians Thursday morning in raids at their homes including a journalist, according to various sources. In the Hebron governorate in the south of the West Bank, the Israeli ....

UN peace coordinator warns of continued violence in Palestinian territories

Date: 2023-01-19 10:21:13 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:25 - ID:9975845

NEW YORK, Jan 19 (MENA) - Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, warned that the dangerous cycle of violence, that characterized recent months in the Palestinian territories, continues to persist, amid increased ....

Russia urges settling Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Date: 2023-01-19 10:06:31 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:9975800

NEW YORK/MOSCOW, Jan 19 (MENA) - Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, called for promoting multilateral efforts aiming at settling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In statements to Russia Today on Thursday, ....

"Cairo" summit asserted centeralization of Palestinian cause: PLF member to MENA

Date: 2023-01-19 09:39:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:9975697

RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (MENA) - Member of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) Wasel Abu Yousef said on Thursday that the tripartite summit that took place on Tuesday in Egypt in the presence of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Jordanian King ....

Israel releases freedom fighter Maher Younis after 40 years of captivity

Date: 2023-01-19 08:52:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:9975730

RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (MENA) – After serving 40 years in Israeli prisons for resisting the occupation, freedom fighter Maher Younis, the longest-serving prisoner in the world, is free at last and back at his home this morning after his release from Kidar ....

Israeli occupation forces kill two Palestinians in Jenin

Date: 2023-01-19 07:36:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:9975649

RAMALLAH, Jan 19 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces this morning killed two Palestinians in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army gunfire since the start of the year to 17. The ....

Israel's High Court blocks Arye Deri from serving as minister

Date: 2023-01-18 18:27:38 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:94 - ID:9975268

RAMALLAH, Jan 18 (MENA) - Shas chairman Arye Deri cannot retain his position as interior and health minister, the High Court ruled on Wednesday in response to petitions challenging Deri's appointment and the Basic Law amendment that allowed his rise ....

European delegation visits Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2023-01-18 11:34:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:54 - ID:9974256

RAMALLAH, Jan 18 (MENA) - A diplomatic delegation from the EU on Wednesday visited Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied al Quds. Representatives and consuls from the EU and other countries visited Al Aqsa Mosque to confirm the EU Union's position on the ....