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Qassam showers Tel Aviv with 4 rockets

Date: 2014-07-17 07:26:24 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:831336

Ezzeddin el-Qassam Brigades of Hamas said they have targeted the Israeli city of Tel Aviv with four homemade M75 rockets. In a statement, Qassam announced that they hit Tel Aviv twice and fired ten rockets towards city of Beersheba, southern of ....

Gaza death toll reaches 215 with four boys killed

Date: 2014-07-16 18:34:50 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:72 - ID:830936

At least 215 Palestinians were killed and 1,635 injured due to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in the ten days of its raids on the coastal enclave, the Health Ministry said Wednesday. It said the recent killings were four boys, cousins ....

Abbas meets Hamas deputy leader on Egypt-brokered ceasefire proposal

Date: 2014-07-16 17:40:17 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:69 - ID:830876

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas holds talks on Wednesday with Hamas political office's deputy chairman Mousa Abu Marzouk on the Egyptian-brokered truce proposal in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian embassy said. It said the meeting tackled ways ....

Arab parl't holds emergency meeting over Gaza crisis

Date: 2014-07-16 16:48:05 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:56 - ID:830753

The Arab Parliament's Committee on Foreign, Political and National Security Affairs held an emergency meeting Wednesday, at the Arab League headquarters to discuss the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip due to Israel's ongoing onslaught. ....

Palestinian president arrives in Cairo

Date: 2014-07-16 16:04:41 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:59 - ID:830773

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived here on Wednesday on an official visit to Egypt for talks with President Abdel Fattah El Sisi over ways of ending the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip that has been going on for a week now. Abbas ....

AL chief welcomes election of Iraqi parliament speaker

Date: 2014-07-16 15:55:30 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:58 - ID:830755

Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi welcomed on Wednesday the election of Selim el-Jabouri as the speaker of the Iraqi parliament. In a statement, Arabi lauded the political will of the Iraqi national powers, saying this is an important ....

Gaza groups fire rockets at Israel

Date: 2014-07-16 15:26:40 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:830698

Palestinian groups fired rockets at Israeli cities in a response to Israel's ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip. Ezz El-Din El-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, fired 10 Grad rockets at the Israeli city of Ashkelon, four rockets at ....

AL consultative meeting on Libya concluded

Date: 2014-07-16 15:23:16 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:52 - ID:830696

Arab League (AL) permanent delegates concluded Wednesday a consultative meeting on the latest developments in Libya. The meeting came upon a request by Arab League chief Nabil el-Arabi and his envoy to Libya Nasser Al-Qudwah. The meeting ....

Assad sworn in for 3rd presidential term

Date: 2014-07-16 11:25:20 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:30 - ID:830116

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been sworn in for a third seven-year term in office, Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath TV reported. Assad won 88.7 percent of the ballots cast in the first multi-candidate elections in decades. The voting didn't take place ....

Gaza’s water system collapsing due to Israeli strikes, says Red Cross

Date: 2014-07-16 11:17:19 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:830098

The repeated bombardments are destroying the vulnerable water system in Gaza, and the deaths of a number of local water authority technicians stresses the danger they face as they perform essential maintenance work, according to the International ....