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Scores of Jewish settlers storm Aqsa Mosque compound under protection of occupation forces
Date: 2020-12-06 10:36:18 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8700826
RAMALLAH, Dec 6 (MENA) - Scores of Jewish settlers on Sunday stormed the precincts of Al Aqsa Mosque compound from Bab el Maghreba gate under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported. The ....
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Turkey's Covid-19 death toll increases by record 196 new fatalities
Date: 2020-12-05 19:32:20 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:8700244
ANKARA, Dec 5 (MENA) – Turkey has registered 31,896 new COVID-19 cases and 196 related deaths over the past 24 hours, marking the highest daily increment in the number of fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic, Sputnik reported. "Today, ....
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Egypt is the major state capable of leading Arab, int'l efforts to reopen Palestinian issue: official
Date: 2020-12-05 12:25:24 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:8699639
CAIRO, Dec 5 (MENA) - Deputy director of the Egyptian Center for Strategic Studies Mohamed Ibrahim al-Douiri called on the Arab countries to lay out an integrated and realistic vision for settling the Palestinian issue. This vision should also ....
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Fatah: Israeli army killing of Palestinian child 'war crime'
Date: 2020-12-05 09:28:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:8699416
RAMALLAH, Dec 5 (MENA) - The Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, Saturday condemned the Israeli army's killing on Friday of a Palestinian child, describing it as a "war crime," WAFA News Agency reported. Fatah spokesman Osama ....
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Palestinian child critically injured by Israeli troops succumbs to wounds
Date: 2020-12-04 17:56:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:41 - ID:8699058
RAMALLAH, Dec 4 (MENA) - The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Friday that a child who was shot and critically injured by Israeli forces during clashes earlier today in the village of al-Mughayir, to the northeast of Ramallah, had ....
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Occupation forces attack anti-settlement protests in Salfit, Kafr Qaddum
Date: 2020-12-04 15:11:39 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:8698871
RAMALLAH, Dec 4 (MENA) – Dozens of Palestinian nonviolent protesters were injured on Friday when Israeli occupation forces attacked two nonviolent protests against the colonial Israeli settlements, which took place in the town of Salfit and the ....
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UN approves 4 resolutions in favor of Palestine
Date: 2020-12-03 10:13:02 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:8697013
RAMALLAH/NEW YORK, Dec 3 (MENA) - The General Assembly of the United Nations approved four decisions in support of the Palestinian cause with overwhelming majority. WAFA News Agency reported on Thursday that the assembly - in its annual session ....
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Palestinians injured by rubber bullets, suffocate in clashes with settlers in Nablus
Date: 2020-12-03 08:12:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:8696882
RAMALLAH, Dec 3 (MENA) - Dozens of Palestinian young people were injured by rubber bullets and suffocated by tear gas fired by Israeli forces following clashes in the vicinity of Youssef's tomb, east of Nablus. Security sources told WAFA News ....
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Turkey's COVID-19 mortality hits record high for 10th consecutive day
Date: 2020-12-02 18:00:23 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:8696492
ANKARA, Dec 2 (MENA) - The Turkish Health Ministry announced Wednesday that 31,923 new coronavirus cases had been recorded in Turkey over the past 24 hours. Meanwhile, the country's daily COVID-19 death toll hit a record high for the tenth day in ....
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MKs approve preliminary vote to dissolve Knesset
Date: 2020-12-02 17:59:33 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:55 - ID:8696489
GAZA CITY, Dec 2 (MENA) - The Knesset on Wednesday afternoon approved the preliminary vote on a bill to dissolve itself, threatening to plunge Israel into its fourth election in less than two years, Ynet News reported. The bill, which passed by ....