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  • December 22, 2016

    Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 107th time

    Israeli forces today demolished the unrecognised Bedouin village for Al-Araqeeb in the Negev for the 107th time. According to locals, Israeli bulldozers demolished the village. A yard and a...

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  • December 22, 2016

    Egypt delays UN vote on settlements

    Egypt postponed a UN Security Council vote due to take place today on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel’s prime...

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  • December 22, 2016

    Egyptian electricity lines feeding southern Gaza Strip damaged

    Egyptian power lines feeding the besieged Gaza Strip were damaged due to complications at the power plant in Arish city in the North Sinai are, Gaza’s power company said...

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  • December 22, 2016

    Israel orders separation of Palestinian family to avoid eviction by settler group

    Following a contentious court battle between a Palestinian family in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem and Israeli settler organisation Ateret Cohanim, the Israeli Supreme Court yesterday evening...

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  • December 22, 2016

    Iraq: Mosul wounded overwhelming Erbil hospitals

    Health officials in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region have warned that hospitals in Erbil are stretched to breaking point after having received almost 8,000 wounded from Mosul over more than...

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  • December 22, 2016

    Aleppo is the source of both shame and pain

    There is no doubt that the tragedy of Aleppo will go down in history as a shameful stain on the world’s conscience. To it will be added the other...

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  • December 22, 2016

    Gaza women cancer patients start hunger strike to protest Israel treatment ban

    Dozens of female cancer patients in Gaza began a hunger strike today to protest Israeli authorities’ banning them from obtaining travel permits to travel to receive treatment. During a...

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  • December 22, 2016

    Palestine: Parliament annuls Abbas’ decision to revoke MPs immunity

    For the first time since infighting in 2007, the Palestinian parliament convened yesterday and discussed President Mahmoud Abbas’ decree to strip five Fatah MPs of their parliamentary immunity. The...

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  • December 22, 2016

    Blanket of snow covers Saudi desert

    Snow has covered large areas of desert in the northern border region of Saudi Arabia. Pictures circulating on social media show camels sitting on the white desert floor with...

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  • December 22, 2016

    Saudi Arabia to deport foreign pharmacists

    The Saudi Ministry of Labour and Social Development has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Health stipulating the government’s intentions to abolish some of the required hiring qualifications...

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