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Israel says it strikes Lebanon-Syria border crossings used by Hezbollah

Date: 2025-02-21 07:22:00 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:11076455

RAMALLAH, Feb 21 (MENA) – Israel said Friday it struck crossings on the Lebanon-Syria border used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons, with a Syria war monitor reporting an unspecified number of people wounded in the attack, Al Arabiya reported. The ....

Guterres: Keep working to ensure peace, dignity, horizon of hope grounded in action for people of ME

Date: 2025-02-21 07:19:25 GMT - United Nations - Middle East - SN:3 - ID:11076477

NEW YORK/ROME, Feb 20 (MENA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for keep working to ensure peace, dignity, horizon of hope grounded in action for people of Middle East. In his video message to the 19th plenary session of the ....

Israel to step up counterterror op in some West Bank areas after attempted bus bombings

Date: 2025-02-21 06:50:52 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:2 - ID:11076460

WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (MENA) - The Israeli army said it is investigating this evening’s bus bombings in Bat Yam and Holon jointly with the Shin Bet security agency and Israel Police, the Times of Israel reported. Following a fresh assessment, the ....

PNGO chief: Egypt pressed Israel to enter mobile homes into Gaza

Date: 2025-02-20 13:40:49 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:36 - ID:11075543

RAMALLAH, Feb 20 (MENA) - Head of Palestinian NGO platform PNGO Amjad Shawa on Thursday hailed major role Egypt played in pressuring Israel to allow the entry of prefabricated homes into the Gaza Strip. Shawa, in statement to Al Qahera News ....

Abbas to present Palestinian vision to confront challenges facing the Palestinian cause at emergency Arab Summit

Date: 2025-02-20 13:37:19 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:35 - ID:11075782

RAMALLAH, Feb 20 (MENA) - President Mahmoud Abbas is set to present the Palestinian vision to confront the challenges facing the Palestinian cause at the emergency Arab Summit in Cairo on March 4, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported quoting ....

543 Israeli settlers storm Al Aqsa Mosque under protection of occupation forces

Date: 2025-02-20 13:05:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:28 - ID:11075512

RAMALLAH, Feb 20 (MENA) - As many as 543 of Israeli settlers stormed into the compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque Thursday guarded by Israeli occupation forces, according to local sources. Israeli settlers thrusted into the eastern part of Al-Aqsa Mosque ....

1st batch of caravans starts entering Gaza

Date: 2025-02-20 12:32:48 GMT - Egypt - Middle East - SN:19 - ID:11075403

RAFAH, Egypt, Feb 20 (MENA) - The first batch of trucks carrying caravans started entering the Gaza Strip on Thursday in implementation of the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas under Egyptian, Qatari and US mediation. The ....

Netanyahu's office confirms coffins of dead hostages handed over to Israel

Date: 2025-02-20 09:27:48 GMT - Israel - Middle East - SN:10 - ID:11075288

GAZA CITY, Feb 20 (MENA) - Israel has received, through the Red Cross, the coffins of four deceased hostages, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed. The coffins were handed over to the Israeli army and Shin Bet forces, inside the Gaza Strip, ....

Israel’s West Bank crackdown triggers a wave of displacement unseen in decades

Date: 2025-02-19 11:09:54 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:18 - ID:11073869

WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (MENA) - Tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks have fled Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank — the largest displacement in the occupied territory since the 1967 Mideast war, the Associated Press ....

Israeli aggression on Tulkarm enters 24th consecutive day

Date: 2025-02-19 11:09:37 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:4 - ID:11073456

RAMALLAH, Feb 19 (MENA) - Israeli occupation forces continued aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 24th consecutive day and on the Nour Shams camp for the 11th day amidst a military escalation of demolition, bombing and burning of ....