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Israel to impose 3-day closure on West Bank, Gaza

Date: 2022-05-01 18:23:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:9548586

RAMALLAH, May 1 (MENA) - Israel will shut all its border crossings with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from Tuesday until Friday, Haaretz quoted the Israeli army as saying. The crossings will be shut starting 3 P.M. on Tuesday, Israel's ....

Lebanese police foil plot by 23 Syrians to sneak into Cyprus

Date: 2022-05-01 14:31:06 GMT - Lebanon - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:9548306

BEIRUT, May 1 (MENA) - Lebanese police have foiled a plot by 23 Syrians, including children and women, to sneak into Cyprus from Lebanon. The troops arrested two persons from Lebanon and Syria for facilitating the illegal migration in return for ....

Israeli forces arrest 10 Palestinians in West Bank

Date: 2022-05-01 12:57:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:9548135

RAMALLAH, May 1 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Sunday arrested 10 Palestinians during manhunt campaigns in different parts of the West Bank, Palestinian security sources said. The sources added that six persons were detained from Jenin ....

Israel arrests Palestinian attackers who killed security guard

Date: 2022-04-30 21:29:48 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:75 - ID:9547365

RAMALLAH, April 30 (MENA) - The Israeli military on Saturday said it has arrested a pair of Palestinian attackers who allegedly shot and killed a security guard at the entrance of a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, Jerusalem Post reported on ....

Palestinian youth shot dead by Israeli troops in Qalqilia

Date: 2022-04-30 10:25:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:9546506

RAMALLAH, April 30 (MENA) - A 28-year-old Palestinian young man was killed last night by Israeli occupation forces in the town of Azzun, near the city of Qalqilia in the occupied West Bank, according to medical sources. Yahya Ali Adwan sustained ....

Israeli security guard shot dead in West Bank

Date: 2022-04-29 21:36:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:70 - ID:9546078

RAMALLAH, April 29 (MENA) - An Israeli security guard was shot and killed in an attack near the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Ariel on Friday night, the Times of Israel quoted officials as saying. Security camera footage from the scene ....

Thousands pray at Al-Aqsa on 4th Friday of Ramadan, despite Israeli restrictions

Date: 2022-04-29 19:10:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:60 - ID:9545739

RAMALLAH, April 29 (MENA) – More than 160,000 Muslim worshipers performed the fourth and last Friday prayer of the holy month of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Jerusalem, despite Israel's restrictions on the entry of ....

Israel arrests 6 Palestinians in WB, Gaza

Date: 2022-04-28 15:58:35 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:64 - ID:9544183

RAMALLAH, April 28 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces arrested Thursday six Palestinians from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Israeli forces also released five others from inside the Green Line, on the condition that they be banned from ....

Israeli police attack worshippers in Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2022-04-28 09:00:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:9543473

RAMALLAH, April 28 (MENA) - Israeli police on Thursday attacked worshippers in Al Aqsa Mosque. The occupation police forces fired tear gas on the grounds of Al Aqsa Mosque compound, resulting in the suffocation of dozens of Palestinian ....

Palestinian prisoner goes on hunger strike after putting him in solitary confinement for 6 months

Date: 2022-04-27 21:34:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:114 - ID:9543223

RAMALLAH, April 27 (MENA) - Palestinian prisoner Abdullah Arda went on a hunger strike after putting him for solitary confinement for 6 months, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said. Arda, from the town of Arraba, south of the northern West Bank ....