28 Aug 2019; MEMO: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri has said that his country depends on Russia to pass the message to Israel that it should stop violating Lebanon’s sovereignty, Quds Press reported on Tuesday.
28 Aug 2019; MEMO: The Israeli army has launched several Farsi language social media accounts against the backdrop of mounting tensions with Iran.
In a press release yesterday, the Spokesperson’s Unit of the Israeli army said it has now launched Farsi language accounts on Twitter, Instagram and encrypted messaging service Telegram.
28 Aug 2019; MEMO: Iran yesterday jailed two of its citizens on charges of spying for Israel and meeting Mossad agents, local and international news agencies reported.
28 Aug 2019; MEMO: Hezbollah will retaliate against Israel after drones crashed in Beirut’s suburbs, but a new war between the old enemies remains unlikely, the Iran-backed movement’s deputy leader has said, reports Reuters.
“I rule out that the atmosphere is one of war, it is one of a response to an attack,” Sheikh Naim Qassem told Russia’s RT Arabic channel on Tuesday night. “Everything will be decided at its time.”
28 Aug 2019; MEMO: The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said that the world does not understand the suffering of the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, reports Quds Press. Pierre Krähenbühl made his comment at a press conference in a refugee school in Gaza to celebrate the start of the new academic year.
ANKARA, Turkey, Aug 28 (NNN-ANADOLU) – A Turkish senior trade official, announced that, Turkey and Mexico have agreed to restart negotiations on Free Trade Agreement.
A bilateral meeting, recently held with Luz Maria de la Mora, the undersecretary for Foreign Trade of Mexico, has been “very fruitful,” said Gonca Yilmaz Batur, Turkey’s deputy minister of trade, at the Turkey-Mexico Trade and Investment Seminar.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah will retaliate against Israel after drones crashed in Beirut’s suburbs, but a new war between the old enemies remains unlikely, the Iran-backed movement’s deputy leader has said.
“I rule out that the atmosphere is one of war, it is one of a response to an attack,” Sheikh Naim Qassem told Russia’s RT Arabic channel on Tuesday night. “Everything will be decided at its time.”
GAZA, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Two Palestinians were killed on Tuesday night in an explosion southwest of the Gaza City, medics and security officials said.
Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of the Health Ministry in Gaza, told reporters that the two killed Palestinians are security officers, adding that three other people were injured.
An official press statement of the Hamas-run Ministry of Interior said that the security forces are investigating the explosion.
27 Aug 2019; MEMO: Israeli forces on Sunday arrested a prominent community organiser in Issawiya, occupied East Jerusalem, reported NGO Ir Amim.
Muhammad Abu Hummus remained in detention at the time of writing, ahead of a hearing today.
27 Aug 2019; MEMO: The Israeli government has moved to stop construction of a school in an unrecognised Bedouin Palestinian village, after pressure from a notorious right-wing group, reported Haaretz.
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