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  • Netanyahu, 130 others enter quarantine after 4 Knesset staff infected with COVID-19

    Date: 2021-12-17 22:22:53 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:59 - ID:9324171

    RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and some 130 others at the Knesset entered quarantine on Friday evening, after four parliamentary personnel were confirmed to be carriers of coronavirus, Israeli officials ....

  • Jordanian king departs for Cyprus

    Date: 2021-12-17 16:46:49 GMT - Jordan - Middle East - SN:45 - ID:9323915

    AMMAN, Dec 17 (MENA) - Jordanian King Abdullah II departed Amman Friday on a one-day visit to Cyprus to hold talks with Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, Petra reported. On Saturday, King Abdullah will participate via telepresence in an event ....

  • Thousands of Palestinians perform Friday prayers at al-Aqsa

    Date: 2021-12-17 15:31:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:39 - ID:9323838

    RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Thousands of Palestinian worshippers performed Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Al Quds amid tight Israeli restrictions. The Islamic Awqaf department in Al Quds said the number of worshippers reached about 40,000. ....

  • Fatah calls on Palestinian people to stand united, defend their land

    Date: 2021-12-17 15:10:24 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:38 - ID:9323836

    RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, has called on the Palestinian people to stand united and defend their land, homes, and properties in the face of terrorism carried out by the Israeli occupation army and ....

  • Israeli forces detain Palestinian minister

    Date: 2021-12-17 15:05:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:9323769

    RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces have detained Palestinian Minister Walid Assaf, Chairman of the Palestinian Authority’s Commission on Apartheid Wall and Colonization Resistance, at a Ramallah checkpoint. Assaf told local media ....

  • Israeli settlers rampage through Nablus-district town

    Date: 2021-12-17 14:57:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:34 - ID:9323778

    RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - Dozens of Israeli settlers rampaged through Burqa town, north of Nablus, torching and indiscriminately opening fire towards houses, WAFA reported Friday. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli settlement activities in ....

  • Israeli settler killed, two others injured in shooting in northern WB

    Date: 2021-12-16 22:24:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:84 - ID:9323020

    RAMALLAH, Dec 16 (MENA) - One Israeli man was killed and two were injured in a shooting attack outside an illegal outpost in the northern West Bank on Thursday night, The Times of Israel reported quoting officials as saying. The victim was named ....

  • China reiterates support of Palestinian cause

    Date: 2021-12-15 17:57:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:82 - ID:9320955

    RAMALLAH, Dec 15 (MENA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received Wednesday a message from his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, in which he reiterated his country’s support of the Palestinian cause until restoring the legitimate rights of ....

  • Palestine praises Israeli minister’s condemnation of settler violence

    Date: 2021-12-15 13:50:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:9320356

    RAMALLAH, Dec 15 (MENA) – The Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry praised Israeli Public Security Minister Omer Barlev for condemning violence by extremist Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. “This recognition is an initial ....

  • Israeli settlers storm into Aqsa Mosque

    Date: 2021-12-15 13:27:32 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:9320536

    RAMALLAH, Dec 15 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed on Wednesday into the Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the occupation forces. Eyewitnesses said they conducted provocative tour and performed Talmudic prayers. Israeli settlers ....

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