Middle East - Welcome to Middle East News Agency

Palestinian health ministry says it will start mass coronavirus vaccination on Sunday

Date: 2021-03-21 08:26:33 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8862624

RAMALLAH, March 21 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced hat mass vaccination of the population in the West Bank and Gaza Strip against coronavirus will start later Sunday, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. The first ....

140 Palestinian children arrested in Israeli prisons till end of Feb.

Date: 2021-03-20 18:34:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:8861945

RAMALLAH, March 20 (MENA) - Israel held about 140 Palestinian children until the end of February, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club on Saturday. The Palestinian children were sent to three prisons, the club said in a statement. (MENA) ....

Palestine to launch mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign in WB Sunday

Date: 2021-03-20 17:25:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:8861951

RAMALLAH, March 20 (MENA) - The Palestinian Health Ministry announced Saturday that a mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign will kick off tomorrow in West Bank governorates. In a statement carried by WAFA news agency, the ministry added that the ....

Israeli occupation forces beef up security measures in Jerusalem

Date: 2021-03-20 16:55:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:8861699

JERUSALEM, March 20 (MENA) – The Israeli occupation forces tightened Saturday the security measures in Jerusalem and its suburbs, according to local news outlets. The Israeli forces closed the Jaba' military checkpoint, northeastern Jerusalem, ....

Palestine reports 1,851 new Covid-19 cases, 21 deaths in 24 hours

Date: 2021-03-19 17:28:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:101 - ID:8860500

RAMALLAH, March 19 (MENA) - Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaileh said on Friday that 1,851 new cases of coronavirus, 1,794 recoveries, and 21 deaths were reported in the past 24 hours, according to WAFA news agency. The minister added ....

Palestinian protesters injured in south of Nablus

Date: 2021-03-19 17:02:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:97 - ID:8860407

NABLUS, March 19 (MENA) - Several Palestinians sustained injuries by Israeli occupation forces, as the former were fending off a provocative visit by colonial Israeli settlers to an archeological site in the village of al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, south ....

Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemns 'field execution crime' in Nablus

Date: 2021-03-19 16:46:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:93 - ID:8860381

RAMALLAH, March 19 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned a field execution crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces against a Palestinian man taking part in an anti-settlement rally near Beit Dajan village, east of ....

Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in Nablus

Date: 2021-03-19 15:11:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:67 - ID:8860151

RAMALLAH, March 19 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian taking part in an anti-settlement rally near Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus, according to Health Ministry as quoted by Wafa news agency. The Ministry ....

Israeli troops quell solidarity rally south of Hebron

Date: 2021-03-19 14:39:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:8859955

RAMALLAH, March 19 (MENA) - Israeli troops on Friday quelled a solidarity rally in Ayn al-Bayda, southeast of Yatta city in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, according to WAFA news agency. Dozens of Palestinians performed the weekly ....

Palestine records 1,851 new infections

Date: 2021-03-19 12:18:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:42 - ID:8859898

RAMALLAH, March 19 (MENA) - Palestine recorded on Friday 1,851 new Covid-19 cases and 291deaths, according to Health Minister Mai Al-Kaileh. Recoveries account for 89.3 percent of total cases since the pandemic outbreak last March, active cases ....