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Shin Bet arrests two Jewish-Israelis who drove terrorists to Bat Yam ahead of bus bombings

Date: 2025-02-21 13:10:27 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:11076763

GAZA CITY, Feb 21 (MENA) - The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) arrested two Jewish-Israeli suspects and are investigating their potential involvement in transporting the persons that planted bombs on buses in the Bat Yam area of central Israel on ....

Israeli media: hostages' families urge swift return of Shiri Bibas’ body

Date: 2025-02-21 11:18:29 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:11076564

GAZA, Feb 21 - (MENA) - Israeli media reported Friday that families of the hostages are pressing the government to act swiftly and find a way to retrieve the body of Shiri Bibas. The families were stunned by the failure to return Shiri Bibas' ....

UN calls to make progress on two-state solution

Date: 2025-02-21 08:41:31 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:7 - ID:11076500

NEW YORK, Feb 21 (MENA) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on the international community to help achieve progress on the two-state solution. Guterres’s remarks came at the 19th plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of ....

Netanyahu to hold security assessment meeting after blasts: PM office

Date: 2025-02-21 07:26:47 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:11076456

GAZA CITY, Feb 21 (MENA) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a security meeting following a series of blasts on public buses in central Israel, his office said in a statement. "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been ....

Israel says it strikes Lebanon-Syria border crossings used by Hezbollah

Date: 2025-02-21 07:22:00 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:11076455

RAMALLAH, Feb 21 (MENA) – Israel said Friday it struck crossings on the Lebanon-Syria border used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons, with a Syria war monitor reporting an unspecified number of people wounded in the attack, Al Arabiya reported. The ....

Guterres: Keep working to ensure peace, dignity, horizon of hope grounded in action for people of ME

Date: 2025-02-21 07:19:25 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:3 - ID:11076477

NEW YORK/ROME, Feb 20 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for keep working to ensure peace, dignity, horizon of hope grounded in action for people of Middle East. In his video message to the 19th plenary session of the ....

Israel to step up counterterror op in some West Bank areas after attempted bus bombings

Date: 2025-02-21 06:50:52 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:11076460

WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (MENA) - The Israeli army said it is investigating this evening’s bus bombings in Bat Yam and Holon jointly with the Shin Bet security agency and Israel Police, the Times of Israel reported. Following a fresh assessment, the ....

PNGO chief: Egypt pressed Israel to enter mobile homes into Gaza

Date: 2025-02-20 13:40:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:11075543

RAMALLAH, Feb 20 (MENA) - Head of Palestinian NGO platform PNGO Amjad Shawa on Thursday hailed major role Egypt played in pressuring Israel to allow the entry of prefabricated homes into the Gaza Strip. Shawa, in statement to Al Qahera News ....

Abbas to present Palestinian vision to confront challenges facing the Palestinian cause at emergency Arab Summit

Date: 2025-02-20 13:37:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:11075782

RAMALLAH, Feb 20 (MENA) - President Mahmoud Abbas is set to present the Palestinian vision to confront the challenges facing the Palestinian cause at the emergency Arab Summit in Cairo on March 4, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported quoting ....

543 Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque under protection of occupation forces

Date: 2025-02-20 13:05:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:11075512

RAMALLAH, Feb 20 (MENA) - As many as 543 of Israeli settlers stormed into the compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque Thursday guarded by Israeli occupation forces, according to local sources. Israeli settlers thrusted into the eastern part of Al-Aqsa Mosque ....