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China says ready to enhance contacts with int'l community to ease establishing Palestinian state

Date: 2021-05-13 18:07:26 GMT - China - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:8956206

BEIJING, May 13 (MENA) - China voiced its readiness to enhance contacts and coordination with the international community to facilitate the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty on the 1967 borders with East ....

Pakistan appeals to Europe's Muslims to denounce Israeli atrocities

Date: 2021-05-13 17:16:08 GMT - Pakistan - Middle East - SN:83 - ID:8956045

ISLAMABAD, May 13 (MENA) - Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday appealed to the 65 million Muslims residing in Europe to play an active role and raise their voice against the heinous attacks by Israeli forces on the Palestinians, said ....

Abbas, Macron probe developments in Al Quds, Gaza, WB

Date: 2021-05-13 14:43:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:8955867

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday stressed the need to end the Israeli onslaught on Gaza and the forced expulsions of Palestinians from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, said WAFA news agency. Speaking in a ....

Nine Palestinians killed, wounded in fresh Israeli raids on Gaza

Date: 2021-05-13 14:35:17 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:66 - ID:8955918

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - One Palestinian was killed and eight others were wounded in new Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian news agency WAFA said that Israeli warplanes targeted a group of citizens near Al Nada towers east of ....

US administration dispatches envoy to Middle East amid warnings of 'full scale war’

Date: 2021-05-13 13:48:41 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:8955874

WASHINGTON, May 13 (MENA) – The US administration dispatched a top State Department diplomat to the Middle East "immediately" to try to de-escalate the deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas, USA Today reported. US President Joe Biden faces ....

COVID-19 kills 297 more Iranians over past 24 hours

Date: 2021-05-13 13:41:24 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:8955861

TEHRAN, May 13 (MENA) - The number of deaths from the coronavirus outbreak in Iran has exceeded 76,231, Iran's Health Ministry announced on Thursday. The tally has increased after 297 more Iranians died from the disease in the past 24 hours, IRNA ....

Kremlin emphasizes no alternative to diplomatic settlement of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Date: 2021-05-13 12:45:01 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:53 - ID:8955711

MOSCOW, May 13 (MENA) - The parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must realize that there is no alternative other than resolving it through political and diplomatic means, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. "So far, ....

Palestinian killed in Israel raid on Gaza

Date: 2021-05-13 11:18:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:8955660

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) – A Palestinian was killed on Thursday in an Israeli raid that targeted a group of Palestinians in Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza. The Palestinian Health Ministry said that the number of Palestinians who fell martyr ....

27 new coronavirus cases in Israel

Date: 2021-05-13 08:25:57 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:8955451

GAZA CITY, May 13 (MENA) - Some 27 new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in Israel on Wednesday, with 0.1% of tests returning positive, The Jerusalem Post quoted a morning update by the Israeli Health Ministry on Thursday. Of those ....

Toxic gas inhalation behind death of group of Palestinians overnight - Health Ministry

Date: 2021-05-13 07:48:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:8955413

RAMALLAH, May 13 (MENA) - The Health Ministry in Gaza said they were investigating the deaths of several people overnight who they said may have inhaled poisonous gas after Israeli bombing of Gaza Strip. Samples were being examined and they had ....