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NEW YORK, Jan. 03 (YPA) - UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk, has called on the Israeli authorities to abandon a new bill that would impose the death penalty on Palestinian detainees under certain conditions, whether in the occupied…

GAZA, Jan. 03 (YPA) -Israeli occupation forces carried out artillery strikes early Saturday on areas east of the Gaza Strip, as helicopters and armored vehicles opened fire, according to Palestinian sources. The sources said helicopter and…

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, Jan. 03 (YPA) - Over fifty international humanitarian organizations working in the occupied Palestinian territories have warned that recent Israeli registration procedures could severely disrupt their operations,…

SAADA, Jan. 03 (YPA) – A citizen was injured on Saturday by Saudi army fire in Saada province, northern Yemen, local sources told Yemen Press Agency. According to the sources, the attack took place near the border district of Monabbih.…

TEHRAN, Jan. 02 (YPA) - Tehran has escalated its rhetoric against Washington as Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf threatened to turn all U.S. bases and military forces in the Middle East into "legal targets" should the United…

GENEVA, Jan. 02 (YPA) - The commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, expressed strong support for the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) and condemned Israeli…

BEIRUT, Jan. 02 (YPA) -  Israeli warplanes carried out Friday a series of airstrikes on several areas in southern Lebanon, according to local media   sources. "Israeli warplanes launched an aerial assault, carrying out a series of violent…

DAMASCUS, Jan. 02 (YPA) – The Israeli occupation forces stormed on Friday areas of Quneitra in southern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on its website that a patrol of the Israeli occupation consisting of three military…

QUDS, Jan. 02 (YPA) - A number of Palestinian citizens were injured on Friday in groups of settlers' attack on the homes of Palestinian citizens in the The Khaleel Al-Luz area southeast of the city of Bethlehem in the south of the occupied…

GAZA, Jan. 02 (YPA) - The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) called on the Palestinian people and the Arab and Islamic nations worldwide to perform the absentee funeral prayer for the martyred commanders of the Al-Qassam Brigades. In its…