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Israel reports 5,312 new coronavirus cases

Date: 2021-08-22 08:14:10 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:9123931

RAMALLAH, Aug 22 (MENA) - The Israeli Health Ministry registered 5,312 new coronavirus cases, The Jerusalem Post reported. The Health Ministry also announced they conducted 101,338 tests - around 5.44% of tests returned a positive result. Some ....

Israeli airstrikes target camp in Gaza

Date: 2021-08-21 21:50:15 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:76 - ID:9123690

RAMALLAH, Aug 21 (MENA) - Israeli fighter jets bombed on Saturday Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza Strip, according to eyewitnesses. Israeli F-16 fighter aircrafts targeted the camp with three rockets. Moreover, explosions were heard in ....

41 Palestinians injured as occupation soldiers attack protesters at Gaza border

Date: 2021-08-21 19:27:00 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:9123585

RAMALLAH, Aug 21 (MENA) – At least 41 Palestinians were injured with gunfire, two of them seriously, and many others sustained suffocation from teargas, as Israeli occupation forces attacked hundreds of protesters demonstrating on the 52nd ....

862 new coronavirus cases recorded in Palestine

Date: 2021-08-21 14:22:01 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:44 - ID:9123031

RAMALLAH, Aug 21 (MENA) - Three people have died of the coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours in Palestine and 862 new cases were confirmed, today said Minister of Health Mai Alkaila. She said in her daily report on the pandemic that 332 new ....

Palestinian official: Coronavirus infections up in West Bank

Date: 2021-08-21 13:10:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:33 - ID:9122793

RAMALLAH, Aug 21 (MENA) - Samer al-Asaad, a senior official of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, said the number of coronavirus cases is rising in the West Bank. In press statements, he said vaccination is vital to curb the pandemic, referring ....

Iran registers over 24,000 COVID-19 cases in a day

Date: 2021-08-21 11:12:07 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:9122739

TEHRAN, Aug 21 (MNA) – The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 24,179 COVID-19 infections and 544 deaths due to the disease in the past 24 hours, the Iranian news agency Mehr reported. According to the statement released on Saturday by the ....

13 Palestinians injured by Israeli occupation forces in WB

Date: 2021-08-20 16:46:55 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:9121878

RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - At least 13 Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire Friday when the Israeli occupation army cracked down on hundreds of protesters as they resumed protests in the village of Beita in southern Nablus City in the ....

Israel records 7,692 new coronavirus infections over past 24 hours

Date: 2021-08-20 16:31:21 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:50 - ID:9121890

RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - Some 7,692 new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in Israel on Friday, according to a morning update by the Israeli Health Ministry. Of those infected, 594 were in serious condition and 108 were on ventilators, ....

One Palestinian injured, others suffocated during protests against occupation in Nablus

Date: 2021-08-20 15:38:10 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:46 - ID:9121796

RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - At least one Palestinian was injured with Israeli gunfire on Friday as Israeli occupation forces attacked two anti-colonization protests in the West Bank districts of Nablus and Hebron, according to local and medical ....

Israeli forces detain 5 protesters in Hebron

Date: 2021-08-20 14:10:46 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:40 - ID:9121615

RAMALLAH, Aug 20 (MENA) - Israeli forces on Friday detained five people, including two foreigners, from the southern West Bank district of Hebron. They were participating in an anti-settlement demonstration gathering hundreds of protesters, ....