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Israeli aircraft bomb interior ministry of de facto government in Gaza; one woman dead, 46 injured

Israeli aircraft bomb interior ministry of de facto government in Gaza; one woman dead, 46 injured

Gaza - Ma’an - A woman was killed and 46 people were injured, three of them seriously, in an Israeli airstrike on the interior ministry of the de facto government in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Al-Hawa, on Friday afternoon.
The building was completely destroyed and a missile hit a wedding party in front of the […]

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Israeli forces raid Tulkarem; seize 25 Palestinians

Tulkarem – Ma’an – Israeli forces withdrew from the centre of the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday evening, after conducting an extensive military operation in the city and arresting more than 25 Palestinian citizens.
Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said that a large Israeli military force stormed the city centre at six o’clock on […]

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Two dead, two injured in Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza Strip

Gaza – Ma’an – Two Palestinians were killed and two others injured on Friday morning in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Muawiyya Hassanain, director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Ministry of Health identified on of the dead as twenty-two-year-old Ismail Radwan. Seventeen-year-old Mahmoud Ramadan was […]

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Israel closes Gaza crossings in reponse to rocket attacks

Bethlehem – Ma’an – Israel has announced that all the crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel will closed for a few days from Friday.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak issued instructions to close the crossings on Thursday night, saying it was in response to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
Barak also said that Israel will […]

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Al-Aqsa Brigades leader killed in clashes with Israeli forces; Abbas denies reports he threatened to resign

Nablus - Ma’an – A leader from the military wing of Fatah, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, was killed during several hours of clashes with Israeli Special Forces in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus on Friday.
Israeli Special Forces stormed Balata refugee camp east of Nablus at dawn, and surrounded a house where four brigades members […]

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Palestinian woman gives birth in Israeli jail

Gaza – Ma’an – A Palestinian woman gave birth to her ninth child in an Israeli prison on Friday.
Despite his wife’s incarceration, Fatima Al-Zaq’s husband, Muhammed, was ecstatic when he heard the news of the birth of his son, Yousef. Forty-four-year-old Muhammad, who lives in the Ash-Shaja’iyeh neighbourhood of Beit Hanoun, in the Gaza Strip, […]

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Al-Quds and Al-Qassam Brigades fire on Israeli targets

Gaza – Ma’an – The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility on Friday evening for launching six projectiles at the Israeli border towns of Sderot and Ashkelon.
Separately, the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing claimed responsibility for launching a projectile at the Israeli military base of Nahel ‘Oz.
The brigades said the attacks […]

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