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Israeli settlers storm into Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2025-04-24 08:33:52 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:6 - ID:11151402

RAMALLAH, April 24 (MENA) - Scores of Israeli settlers stormed into Al Aqsa Mosque guarded by the Israeli police. They conducted provocative tours and performed Talmudic rituals inside the mosque, the third holiest site for Muslims. (MENA) M H ....

Several Palestinians killed in Israeli bombing of several areas in Gaza

Date: 2025-04-24 07:58:04 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:5 - ID:11151363

RAMALLAH, April 24 (MENA) - Thirteen Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli shelling of several areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Thursday, WAFA reported. In the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, northwest Gaza City, six members of ....

Palestinian youth injured in Israeli raid east Nablus

Date: 2025-04-23 17:46:36 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:56 - ID:11150882

RAMALLAH, April 23 (MENA) - A Palestinian youth was injured Wednesday during an Israeli occupation forces raid on the Masaken al-Sha'abi area, eastern Nablus, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Local sources said the youth was shot in the ....

Palestinian president chairs 32nd session of Palestinian Central Council

Date: 2025-04-23 13:16:12 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:11150317

RAMALLAH, April 23 (MENA) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said, "We face grave dangers that are closer to a new Nakba that threatens our existence and portends the liquidation of our entire national cause." He added that this is in ....

Israeli forces intercept missile fired from Yemen

Date: 2025-04-23 07:36:52 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:11 - ID:11149808

RAMALLAH, April 23 (MENA) - The Israeli Forces said a ballistic missile fired at northern Israel by Yemen’s Houthis was "probably intercepted successfully" by air defenses, The Times of Israel reported. Alerts are sounded as a precaution against ....

UN: Destruction of vital lifting gear in Gaza halts search for thousands buried under rubble

Date: 2025-04-23 07:06:30 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:3 - ID:11149784

NEW YORK, April 22 (MENA) - The destruction of key heavy machinery on Tuesday following reported Israeli airstrikes has brought rescue and recovery efforts to a standstill, making it even harder to reach the estimated 11,000 bodies still trapped ....

Hamas urges int'l community to pressure Israeli gov’t to open crossings, allow aid delivery to Gaza

Date: 2025-04-22 18:40:22 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:47 - ID:11149269

GAZA CITY, April 22 (MENA) – Hamas renewed its demand to the international community, the United Nations, and all relevant parties to take action and bear their responsibilities by pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to open border ....

Hunger spreads, deepens deliberately: UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini says

Date: 2025-04-22 11:55:03 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:22 - ID:11148911

RAMALLAH, April 22 (MENA) - The head of UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) denounced on Tuesday the Israeli siege of Gaza, continuing since March 2, and called for the resumption ceasefire. “How much longer until hollow words of ....

Former Israeli commander: War’s purpose is to keep Netanyahu in office

Date: 2025-04-22 10:34:06 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:16 - ID:11148699

GAZA CITY, April 22 (MENA) - Former Israeli commander Guy Rosen, a of a classified operational unit in the Israeli occupation Air Force and one of the initiators of the letter calling for the return of the hostages—even at the cost of ending the ....

Dozens of Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque

Date: 2025-04-22 10:10:44 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:13 - ID:11148696

RAMALLAH, April 22 (MENA) - Dozens of Israeli settlers on Tuesday barged into the compound of al-Aqsa Mosque in Al Quds city (occupied East Jerusalem) in the West Bank, under protection of Israeli occupation forces, WAFA news agency reported. ....