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Palestinians threaten to turn to UNGA in case US vetoes draft on Jerusalem

Date: 2017-12-18 13:30:13 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:52 - ID:7146605

CAIRO, Dec 18 (MENA) - The Palestinian leadership has threatened to resort to the the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) if Washington vetoes a draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Jerusalem’s status. Foreign Minister Riyad Al Malky said in a ....

Palestinian Prisoners' Club calls for civil disobedience

Date: 2017-12-18 11:06:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:32 - ID:7146265

RAMALLAH, Dec 18 (MENA) - The Palestinian Prisoners' Club has urged civil disobedience in the face of Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people. The call comes after the Israeli government agreed to refer to Knesset a draft law to allow ....

Israel launches detention campaign in West Bank

Date: 2017-12-18 10:50:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:27 - ID:7146095

RAMALLAH, Dec 18 (MENA) - The Israeli forces launched a campaign of incursions and detentions on Monday in the West Bank and stormed houses of a number of Palestinians. In southern Hebron, the forces detained three Palestinians after storming into ....

Settlers storm Al Aqsa mosque anew

Date: 2017-12-18 10:09:40 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:23 - ID:7146030

RAMALLAH, Dec 18 (MENA) - Groups of extremist settlers forced their way into Al Aqsa mosque on Monday under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, eyewitnesses said. The settlers stormed the mosque via Al Magharba gate and carried out ....

Sheikh Akrama rejects US officials' claims on Buraq Wall will be part of Israel

Date: 2017-12-18 09:06:42 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:20 - ID:7146031

RAMALLAH, Dec 18 (MENA) - The Grand Imam of Al Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Akrama Saed Sabri vehemently rejected US officials' unfounded claims that the Buraq Wall (the Western Wall) of Al Aqsa Mosque will at the end be part of Israel. In statements on ....

Israeli jets launch series of raids on Gaza

Date: 2017-12-18 07:15:07 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:8 - ID:7145853

GAZA CITY, Dec 18 (MENA) - Israeli jets launched on Monday a series of fierce raids on the Gaza Strip. The jets targeted positions in Ashkelon and navy sites in western Gaza city, local sources said. Israeli helicopters and reconnaissance ....

Two rockets fired from Gaza at Israel - report

Date: 2017-12-17 22:36:11 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:7145804

GAZA CITY, Dec 17 (MENA) - Two rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel Sunday night, the Israeli military confirmed, according to Haaretz. One of the rockets exploded in the yard of a residential building in southern Israel's Hof Ashkelon Regional ....

Israeli forces arrest 5 people over West Bank armament smuggling

Date: 2017-12-17 21:49:50 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:74 - ID:7145440

GAZA CITY, Dec 17 (MENA) - Israel's Shin Bet and security bodies arrested five people over an alleged armament smuggling ring in the south of the occupied territories and the West Bank, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday. An Arab person who owns a ....

5 injured in Gaza border clashes

Date: 2017-12-17 21:40:47 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:73 - ID:7145438

GAZA CITY, Dec 17 (MENA) - At least five Palestinians were injured, including one critically, during clashes that broke out Sunday along the Gaza Strip's borders as Palestinians continued to protest US recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel, ....

Criticizing Israel occupation practices not antisemitism, says Palestinian Foreign Ministry

Date: 2017-12-17 16:10:58 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7145050

RAMALLAH, Dec 17 (MENA) - The Palestinian Foreign Ministry Sunday said that criticism of Israeli occupation practices should not be perceived as a form of antisemitism. This perception is in itself a form of "intellectual terrorism", the ....