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Israeli forces demolish home of Palestinian prisoner

Date: 2017-12-01 08:40:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:7117950

RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces demolished earlier Friday home of Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Ziyad in Qabatiya city, northern West Bank. Dozens of residents, including a toddler and an elderly woman, suffered suffocation ....

Quake rocks Iran's south-central province

Date: 2017-12-01 08:26:32 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:7117978

TEHRAN, Dec 1 (MENA) - A magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit on Friday morning Hojedk town at Ravar County located in south-central province of Kerman, according to the seismological center of the Geophysics Institute of Tehran University. The tremor ....

Russian planes destroy over 910 terrorist facilities in Syria in past week

Date: 2017-12-01 08:24:58 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:15 - ID:7117979

MOSCOW, Dec 1 (MENA) - Russia’s Aerospace Forces carried out over 420 sorties in Syria over the past seven days and destroyed over 910 facilities belonging to Daesh terrorist group, Russian news agency TASS quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as ....

Palestinian youth wounded in Qusra by settlers

Date: 2017-12-01 06:37:16 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:7117923

RAMALLAH, Dec 1 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth was injured Thursday when clashes erupted between Palestinians and settlers who stormed, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, Qusra village, southern Nablus. Scores of settlers from ....

3 Palestinians hurt in Israeli rocket attack in southern Gaza

Date: 2017-11-30 20:32:30 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:69 - ID:7117722

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) – Three Palestinians were injured when Israeli F-16 jets launched four rockets on a post in southern the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses said on Thursday. The three wounded Palestinians were moved to Al Shifaa Hospital in ....

Israeli ministers threaten major Italian bike race over Jerusalem wording

Date: 2017-11-30 18:51:31 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:61 - ID:7117646

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) - Israeli officials threatened to drop their partnership in the first stage of the Giro d’Italia after organizers of the prestigious cycling event referred to the start of the race as in “west Jerusalem.” The first day of ....

Israeli jets shell resistance posts in northern, southern Gaza Strip

Date: 2017-11-30 18:08:41 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:58 - ID:7117614

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) - The Israeli military aircraft raided Thursday several posts of the Palestinian resistance posts northern and southern Gaza Strip. The planes targeted Buraq post affiliated to Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing ....

PA slams shooting Palestinian near Nablus

Date: 2017-11-30 18:00:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:57 - ID:7117504

RAMALLAH, Nov 30 (MENA) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned the brutal act committed by the Israeli settlers who fatally shot Mahmoud Ahmed Zaal, 45, near Nablus. In a statement, the PA pointed to the heinous assault, saying that it proved ....

Israel hits northern Gaza with artillery

Date: 2017-11-30 16:03:56 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:51 - ID:7117506

GAZA CITY, Nov 30 (MENA) - Israel artillery bombed at least three shells on two Palestinian posts and an agricultural plot of land located northern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Eyewitnesses said that the tanks of the Israeli forces deployed on the ....

UN seeks urgent medical evacuation of 500 from Syria's eastern Ghouta

Date: 2017-11-30 15:35:58 GMT - Switzerland - Middle East - SN:49 - ID:7117370

GENEVA, Nov 30 (MENA) - The UN humanitarian adviser for Syria called on world powers on Thursday to help arrange the evacuation of 500 people, including 167 children, from the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta, saying it has become a ....