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  • Abbas asks UN to provide 'international protection' to State of Palestine

    Abbas asks UN to provide 'international protection' to State of Palestine

    Date: 2014-07-13 18:03:02 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:19 - ID:825618

    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday sent an official message to the United Nations to place the State of Palestine under the "international protection" of the United Nations following the deterioration of the situation in the ....

  • Tripoli airport closure prevents FM from attending Tunisia meeting

    Tripoli airport closure prevents FM from attending Tunisia meeting

    Date: 2014-07-13 18:01:06 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:18 - ID:825615

    Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdulaziz will not attend a meeting of the foreign ministers of Libya's neighboring countries, which convenes today in the Tunisian city of Hammamet, due to the closure of Tripoli airport, a well-placed source at the ....

  • Flights suspended at Tripoli airport after targeted with rockets

    Flights suspended at Tripoli airport after targeted with rockets

    Date: 2014-07-13 07:42:41 GMT - Libya - Arab world - SN:1 - ID:824542

    Flights at Libya's Tripoli airport were suspended on Sunday after having been targeted with missiles. The rockets damaged a new parking area and the airport's facade. No casualties were reported. The airport area has been controlled by ....

  • 127 killed, 940 injured in Israeli aggression on Gaza

    127 killed, 940 injured in Israeli aggression on Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-12 14:38:22 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:36 - ID:823896

    As many as 127 Palestinians have been killed and 940 others injured in the ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip. Palestinian Health ministry's spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said that six people were killed and ten others injured in the Israeli ....

  • 300 Israelis-Palestinians protest in Tira against escalation of tensions with Gaza

    300 Israelis-Palestinians protest in Tira against escalation of tensions with Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-12 10:54:34 GMT - Israel - Arab world - SN:28 - ID:823505

    Some 300 Palestinians and Israelis started protesting at the southern entrance to the city of Tira against both rockets being fired from Gaza and Israeli airstrikes in response, Ynet reported. The protesters are holding signs that saying, "Arab ....

  • Qassam Brigades shell Ben-Gurion airport again

    Qassam Brigades shell Ben-Gurion airport again

    Date: 2014-07-12 10:31:57 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:27 - ID:823466

    The Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian movement Hamas, fired 25 locally made rockets at Ben-Gurion airport in Tel Aviv for the second time in 24 hours. On Friday, the brigades fired an M75 rocket on the airport and ....

  • Israel army carried out more than 700 air raids since escalation started - OCHA

    Israel army carried out more than 700 air raids since escalation started - OCHA

    Date: 2014-07-12 10:00:34 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:23 - ID:823347

    The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported an escalation in Israeli aerial and navy bombardments throughout the Gaza Strip, alongside an intensification of Palestinian rocket firing into Israel. Since ....

  • Arab ambassadors in Tokyo urge Japan to act to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza

    Arab ambassadors in Tokyo urge Japan to act to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-12 09:20:23 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:22 - ID:823303

    The Council of Arab Ambassadors in Tokyo has urged the Japanese government to exercise pressure on Israel to immediately stop its attacks on innocent Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, Egypt's ambassador in Tokyo Hisham el-Zamiti said. The ....

  • Arab FMs to convene Monday on Gaza escalation

    Arab FMs to convene Monday on Gaza escalation

    Date: 2014-07-12 09:18:47 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:21 - ID:823300

    The Arab League Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday at the foreign ministers' level to discuss the deteriorating situation in Gaza under the ongoing Israeli aggression. Kuwait, the current chair of the Arab summit, has called for ....

  • 121 killed, 924 injured in Israeli raids on Gaza

    121 killed, 924 injured in Israeli raids on Gaza

    Date: 2014-07-12 08:28:36 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:15 - ID:823184

    The death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza has risen to 121, while the injured hit 924, according to the Health Ministry here. Three Palestinians were killed in the shelling of a park eastern Gaza, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qadra ....

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