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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 ....

Israeli forces block Palestinian worshippers from reaching Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2021-03-19 10:46:31 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:29 - ID:8859693

RAMALLAH, March 19 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces set up barriers at the entrance of the Old City in a bid to block Palestinian worshippers from reaching Aqsa Mosque to perform Friday prayers. For weeks now, the occupation authorities have ....

Israeli forces target Palestinian farmers, fishermen in Gaza

Date: 2021-03-19 10:11:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:8859639

RAMALLAH, March 19 (MENA) - Israeli forces Friday morning targeted farmers and shepherds to the east of al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central besieged Gaza Strip, according to WAFA. He said Israeli forces stationed along the border to the east ....

Palestine's PM praises Egypt's support for Palestinian cause

Date: 2021-03-18 22:00:49 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:116 - ID:8859223

RAMALLAH, March 18 (MENA) – Palestine’s Prime Minister has praised Egypt’s stance in supporting the Palestinian cause. “We, in Palestine, have been accustomed to honorable Egyptian stances that support the Palestinian cause,” Mohammed Shtayyeh ....

Iran records 7,530 new coronavirus cases

Date: 2021-03-18 12:54:32 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:8858146

TEHRAN, March 18 (MENA) - As many as 7,530 people have been infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours in Iran, said Sima Sadat Lari, spokesperson for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Trend News Agency said that ....

Israeli forces arrest 7 Palestinians in West Bank

Date: 2021-03-18 10:54:51 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:37 - ID:8857834

RAMALLAH, March 18 (MENA) - Israeli forces continued violations against Palestinians on Thursday by arresting seven and beating others during house searches in the West bank. The arrest took place in east Jerusalem, Jenin and Ramallah. (MENA) S ....

Israel receives letter from ICC on its war crimes charges

Date: 2021-03-18 07:44:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:8857425

RAMALLAH, March 18 (MENA) – Israel received at the end of last week a letter from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague regarding charges of committing war crimes in the Palestinian territories, the Palestinian news agency WAFA ....

Palestine records 2,193 new Covid-19 cases, 29 deaths

Date: 2021-03-17 14:04:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:8856191

RAMALLAH, March 17 (MENA) - Palestine recorded on Wednesday 2,193 new Covid-19 cases and 29 deaths, according to Health Minister Mai Al-Kaileh. She announced that 2,193 Palestinians tested positive for the highly contagious virus and 29 others ....

Israel records 1,472 new coronavirus infections over past 24 hours

Date: 2021-03-17 10:23:41 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:8855633

GAZA CITY, March 17 (MENA) - Israel on Wednesday posted 1,472 new coronavirus cases diagnosed a day earlier, with the infection rate falling to 2.1%, Ynet reported. The Health Ministry said that on Tuesday 72,620 tests had been conducted. The ....

Iran enriching with new set of advanced machines at Natanz -IAEA

Date: 2021-03-17 07:42:31 GMT - Austria - Middle East - SN:12 - ID:8855203

VIENNA, March 17 (MENA) - Iran has started enriching uranium with a third set of advanced IR-2m centrifuges at its underground plant at Natanz, reported Alhurra TV Wednesday quoting the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The UN nuclear ....