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Two Palestinians killed, injured in Israeli raid on northern GS

Date: 2014-07-09 11:09:11 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:13 - ID:819028

Israeli warplanes continued on Wednesday their air raids on Gaza, leaving a Palestinian young man killed and another wounded along with the demolition of several houses, rising the number of martyrs to 25 and more than 200 injured. Palestinian ....

Abbas urges intl community to bear responsibility to secure Palestinians

Date: 2014-07-09 07:31:08 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:7 - ID:818606

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday called on the international community to bear its responsibility to secure the Palestinian people in face of the mounting Israeli aggression. "It is time for the international community, especially ....

Jordan ready to face destabilization attempts: interior minister

Date: 2014-07-09 07:22:07 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:5 - ID:818591

Jordanian interior minister Hussein Al-Majali said that his country is on high alert to face any attempts to destabilize the kingdom and that its military and security forces are fully controlling borders. The remarks were made during Majali's ....

Zaanoun calls for int'l intervention to stop Israeli massacre of Palestinians

Date: 2014-07-09 07:19:48 GMT - Jordan - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:818583

Speaker of the Palestinian National Council Salim al-Zaanoun has called on the world countries and international organizations to work for an end to the Israeli aggression on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In statements on ....

Arab parl’t denounces Israeli aggression against Palestinians

Date: 2014-07-09 07:12:05 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:818569

Arab Parliament Speaker Ahmed al-Jarwan has condemned the escalation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians. In a statement Tuesday, Jarwan described the Israeli assaults on the civilians in Gaza as “cowardly terrorist acts which ....

German FM warns of 'vortex of violence' stemming from continuous Gaza rocket fire

Date: 2014-07-08 16:18:47 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:45 - ID:818054

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday that Israel has the right to defend its citizens from rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported. Amid an escalation of tensions in the South, Steinmeier warned ....

UK urges de-escalation in southern Israel and Gaza

Date: 2014-07-08 15:51:07 GMT - United Kingdom - Arab world - SN:43 - ID:818001

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday condemned rocket attacks on Israel and is deeply concerned by escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza. Commenting on rocket attacks by Palestinian militant groups on Israel and Israeli air-strikes ....

31 killed, injured in Israeli raids on Gaza

Date: 2014-07-08 13:36:53 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:34 - ID:817626

One member of Ezz-Eddine Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was killed and 30 other Palestinians were injured in an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. The Spokesman for the Palestinian ministry of health said that the body ....

4 Palestinians killed in Israeli raid

Date: 2014-07-08 12:34:36 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:817523

Four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli raid on the Gaza Strip bringing the total number of deaths in the strip on Tuesday only to five. Earlier, a Hamas militant was killed and 30 others were wounded in a series of Israeli raids on the ....

Ban-Ki-Moon adviser calls for violence cessation in Yemen

Date: 2014-07-08 11:19:29 GMT - United Nations - Arab world - SN:16 - ID:817381

Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Yemen, Jamal Benomar expressed deep concern about the ongoing violence in Amran province and other areas in northern Yemen. Benomar called for respecting the existing ceasefire and asserted the ....