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The Jordanian government is reportedly refusing to allow the return of the Israeli ambassador to the country, more than a month after an Israeli embassy security guard shot and killed two Jordanian citizens, Israeli news website Ynet reported on Thursday. Additionally, Ynet reported that relations between Israel and Jordan have remained frozen and no visas are being issued, meaning that “thousands of Jordanians and Palestinians living in Jordan who cannot enter Israel through the Allenby crossing” and “163 passports of Jordanian citizens waiting to receive a visa to Israel have been held in a safe of the Israeli embassy in Jordan.” Staff members of the Israeli embassy to Jordan, including the security guard who Ynet identified as Ziv Moyan – […]

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Israeli forces detained at least 19 Palestinians during overnight raids between Wednesday and Thursday across the occupied West Bank, while raiding toy shops in the Hebron district – confiscating toy guns, fireworks, and laser pointers, of which the soldiers said could be used for “terrorism.” In the northern West Bank, locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces raided the village of Yaabad in the Jenin district and detained a Palestinian “youth” from the al-Atatra family. An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed to Ma’an one detention in Yaabad. Israeli forces also raided the Mirka village in Jenin and detained three brothers, identified by locals as Alaa, Hamza, and Yousif Jalboush. An Israeli army spokesperson confirmed two of the detentions in Mirka, saying one […]

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The Palestinian Authority has continued to detain a Palestinian man from the Hebron-area town of Dura in the southern occupied West Bank despite four court orders calling for his release, according to a statement released on Wednesday from legal NGO al-Haq, in which the group condemned the PA for the detention. Shadi Nammourah has been “arbitrarily” detained by the PA’s General Intelligence Service (GIS) in its Jericho detention center, according to al-Haq, which cited release orders by courts in Dura and Jericho issued on 30 May, 13 June, 20 June, and 3 August. GIS responded to each release order by continuing to detain Nammourah, allegedly based on new charges, al-Haq said. The Palestinian human rights organisation said they have sent […]

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Street cleaners in Dubai are wearing new ‘cooling collars’ to prevent heat stroke as they work in rising Gulf temperatures that can hit 45 degrees Celsius, Dubai said on Wednesday. The glitzy Middle East emirate issued 4,000 cleaners with orange fabric collars containing a chilled gel, similar to the cold compresses used for injuries, to fasten around their necks and stay cool as they work outdoors. “This type of cooling material (can)… protect the body from high temperature so that the worker is not subject to heat exhaustion,” Abdulmajeed Saifaie, director of the waste department, said in a statement. ‘Cooling collars’ to protect Dubai cleaners from summer heat https://t.co/bkxL16CfGr pic.twitter.com/3f3qw8apeo — Dubai Informer (@Dubaiinformer) August 30, 2017 Projections show the Gulf […]

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British authorities have lifted a ban on carry-on electronic devices on planes arriving from Cairo airport, Egypt’s Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Friday. The United States and Britain in March imposed restrictions banning electronic devices from being carried on planes coming from certain airports in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Authorities lifted the ban “after confirming that security procedures on Egypt’s flights meet the requirements of the British Transportation Security Administration,” the ministry said in a statement.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced hope on Friday – the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday – that next year’s Eid would see the city of Jerusalem “liberated from the Israeli occupation”. In a brief statement to reporters after performing Eid prayers at the presidential office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas extended his wish for a happy holiday to the Arab and Muslim world. “Eid Mubarak to the Arab and Muslim nations,” he declared. “By next year’s Eid, we hope to see the liberation of Al-Quds Al-Sharif [Jerusalem] and the release of our jailed brothers [detained by Israel].” Shortly afterward, accompanied by senior Palestinian Authority officials, Abbas placed a wreath at the tomb of late […]

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Almost two million Muslims now making the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia marked the first day of the four-day Eid al-Adha holiday on Friday by symbolically stoning the devil – a ritual known as the “Great Jamara” – near the holy city of Mecca. In Egypt, meanwhile, millions of Muslims attended Eid prayers in public squares across the country amid a carnival-like atmosphere accompanied by heavy security measures. Sheikh Jaber Tayei, head of the religious department at Egypt’s Ministry of Awqaf (religious affairs), put the total number of public squares officially reserved for Eid prayers at more than 5,000 countrywide. And in the city of Al-Bab in northern Syria’s war-weary Aleppo province, thousands of Muslims performed Eid prayers at the […]

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