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US withholds $65 mn from UN agency

Washington - Al Maghrib Today

The United States sent $60 million to keep the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees operating Tuesday but withheld a further $65 million, urging others to pay more. A State Department official said the US had held back more than half of the voluntary payment Washington had been due to make to the UN Relief and Works Agency. "There isRead more

Palestinians exhume body of disabled Gazan killed

Gaza City - Al Maghrib Today

Palestinian officials exhumed the body of a disabled Gazan man Sunday as part of efforts to prove Israeli forces shot him in the head during recent protests and clashes. "Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh's body was exhumed this morning for another autopsy to refute Israeli claims that come as an attempt to evade their responsibility for this crime," Mohammad Al-Najjal, the deputyRead more

Car bomb wounds Hamas official in south Lebanon

Sidon - Al Maghrib Today

An official of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was wounded on Sunday in a car bomb blast in Lebanon's southern port city of Sidon. Hamas's Lebanon branch named the wounded man as its "staff member" Mohammed Hamdan. "The blast wounded his leg, destroyed his car and damaged the building. Preliminary evidence points to Zionist (involvement) behind this crime," it saidRead more

Israel destroys tunnel from Gaza it says intended for attacks

Jerusalem - Al Maghrib Today

Israel said Sunday it used a combination of air strikes and other means to destroy a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into the country and continuing into Egypt. Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said the tunnel belonged to Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, and was intended for attacks as opposed to smuggling. Such tunnels haveRead more

One separated Gaza twin dies

Riyadh - Al Maghrib Today

One of the Palestinian conjoined twins from the Gaza Strip separated this week in surgery in Saudi Arabia has died but her sister is recovering, the kingdom said Saturday. "Haneen is in stable condition and on her way to recovery five days after being surgically separated from her clinically dead sister, Farah," the Saudi information ministry said. "Haneen is breathingRead more

Two Palestinians killed in clashes with Israeli forces

Gaza - Al Maghrib Today

Two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead in clashes with Israel's military Thursday, Palestinian officials said, amid tensions over US President Donald Trump's recent Jerusalem declaration and a deadly gun attack. Amir Abu Musaid, 16, was shot in the chest near the border fence east of Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, the health ministry in the strip announced, following protests againstRead more

Senior Hamas figure shot in Gaza, in critical condition: medical source

Gaza City - Al Maghrib Today

A senior Hamas figure was shot in the head in Gaza and hospitalised in critical condition on Tuesday, in what officials said was an accident. Hamas spokesman Fawzy Barhoum said Imad al-Alami, a former member of Hamas's highest political body, was shot while "inspecting his personal weapon in his home and is in critical condition". A medical source said heRead more

Israel names 20 banned NGOs in anti-boycott push

Jerusalem - Al Maghrib Today

Israel on Sunday named 20 foreign NGOs whose representatives are barred from its territory, saying that they support a boycott of the Jewish state over its occupation of Palestinian territory. Publication of the list of groups from Europe, the United States, Chile and South Africa follows legislation in March banning entry to foreigners who support boycotting the country or itsRead more