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Israel imposes coronavirus lockdowns on weekends

Date: 2020-07-17 10:02:29 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:8511358

GAZA CITY, July 17 (MENA) - Israel imposed a new weekend shutdown on Friday and tightened a series of coronavirus curbs to lower infection rates, amid growing public anger over the government's handling of the crisis, according to Ynet ....

Israeli forces detain Palestinian academician in Al Quds

Date: 2020-07-17 09:50:23 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8511422

RAMLLAH, July 17 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Friday detained a Palestinian academician from Al Quds city. The Israeli forces stopped the vehicle of Emad Al Barghouthi and detained him while passing at Anata village in the city. ....

Israeli forces detain seven Palestinians

Date: 2020-07-16 07:24:25 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:8509867

RAMALLAH, July 16 (MENA) – Israeli forces arrested on Thursday seven Palestinians in Ramallah, Bethlehem and Hebron. Five Palestinians were detained Bethlehem, one in Ramallah and one in Hebron. (MENA) M N E ....

Turkish interior min.: 7 policemen killed in plane crash

Date: 2020-07-16 05:21:26 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:1 - ID:8509769

ANKARA, July 16 (MENA) - Seven police officers were killed when their reconnaissance plane crashed in Van province in eastern Turkey, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Thursday. Russia Today satellite channel reported the news ....

Turkey registers 947 new coronavirus cases, 17 deaths

Date: 2020-07-15 21:36:03 GMT - Turkey - Middle East - SN:78 - ID:8509721

ANKARA, July 15 (MENA) - The Turkish Ministry of Health reported Wednesday 947 new coronavirus cases, raising total confirmed cases in Turkey to 215,940. Meanwhile, 17 more fatalities were registered in the past 24 hours, as death toll hit ....

Palestinian president receives message from Syrian counterpart

Date: 2020-07-15 21:14:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:8509706

RAMALLAH, July 15 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmmoud Abbas received a letter Wednesday from his Syrian counterpart Bashar al Assad. In his message, Assad voiced Syria's solidarity with the Palestinian people in face of the US peace deal, ....

Palestinian Health Ministry: 419 new COVID-19 infections

Date: 2020-07-15 12:50:20 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:24 - ID:8508933

RAMALLAH, July 15 (MENA) - Data by the Palestinian Ministry of Health for the last 24 hours showed that, and for the first time, a sharp surge in coronavirus cases were recorded in Ramallah city, the de facto capital of the Palestinian Authority, ....

4 die in Israel from coronavirus, 1,573 new cases found in 24 hour period in Israel

Date: 2020-07-15 12:49:10 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:8509010

GAZA CITY, July 15 (MENA) - The Israeli Health Ministry said Wednesday that 1,573 people were confirmed to have contracted coronavirus in the past 24 hours. Four more people have died from the virus bringing the total number of fatalities from ....

Israeli forces detain 11 Palestinians from West Bank

Date: 2020-07-15 08:01:59 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:14 - ID:8508633

RAMALLAH, July 15 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday detained 11 Palestinians from the West Bank. The Palestinian Prisoner Club said in a statement that seven of them were detained from Ramallah and Biera cities while two others were ....

Israeli army detains 10 Palestinians in Jerusalem, West Bank

Date: 2020-07-14 11:39:26 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:21 - ID:8507538

RAMALLAH, July 14 (MENA) - The Israeli army detained 10 Palestinians in early morning raids today in the occupied Palestinian territories, WAFA quoted the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) as saying. It said Israeli forces detained five youths ....