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This summer marks ten years since the Islamic State declared itself a “caliphate” and launched a brutal campaign of violence in Iraq, including a genocidal assault on the Yazidi minority in August 2014. More than six years since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq, only nine members of the terrorist group have been convicted of international atrocity crimes for their roles there. Not one of these prosecutions has occurred inside Iraq. Despite this major deficit in criminal accountability, the United Nations (UN) mission to collect and preserve evidence of crimes committed by Is...
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In Jenin, a city in the northern occupied West Bank, young armed men patrol the winding, rubble-laden streets of the refugee camp, rotating sleepless shifts, setting up roadblocks at chokehold points, and reinforcing the iron barricades dotted across entrances, all in an effort to hinder escalating Israeli military incursions. Mohammed Al-Sabbagh, head of the Jenin camp’s People’s Committee, told The New Arab that since 7 October the Israeli army has killed around 75 Palestinians in Jenin, destroying about 47 homes and shops, with hundreds more partially damaged. “Around 115 families have temp...
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As graduation season comes to a close, critics of pro-Palestinian student protests likely hope that these gatherings ended with the academic year. For many student organisers, however, the summer is a time to regroup, continue protesting, and prepare for more demonstrations in the new school year. Student-led demonstrations are continuing off-campus at public spaces, including in front of the White House, as well as at events at campuses across the country, with the expectation that September will bring more coordinated mobilisation, particularly in a contentious presidential election year if ...
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Enrico Mattei was a leading figure in post-war Italy who went down in history for relaunching the Italian petroleum agency Agip, founded by Benito Mussolini, into state oil giant ENI (National Fuel Trust). A partisan leader and a Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana) MP, he turned ENI into a global player that broke up the oligopoly of the world’s largest energy companies dominated by the UK, the US, the Netherlands, France, and Belgium. Mattei secured ENI contracts across the Middle East, the Gulf, and Africa, treating countries as equals with 50/50 cuts of their profits from oil. As a r...
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In the face of mounting evidence, the United Nations (UN) - the primary facilitator of the multi-billion-dollar humanitarian aid industry in Syria - has failed to make any impactful changes to improve the efficacy of its operations in regime-held areas, analysts say. A reportpublished on 22 May revealed that although the UN’s overall aid procurements within Syria decreased over 2021-2022, compared to 2019-2020, more funding went to organisations with ties to human rights abusers and sanctioned individuals, mostly cronies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Since the 2011 popular uprising, Syr...
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Last week, the Israeli government returned broadcasting equipment it had seized from the Associated Press (AP) on the border of the Gaza Strip, where a live feed had been showing footage of Israel’s war on the besieged territory. The Israeli government acted against the news agency after accusing it of violating a new media law by providing images to Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera. “The shutdown was not based on the content of the feed but rather an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country’s new foreign broadcaster law,” an AP statement said. The agency stressed that it had co...
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Houses and cars burnt to ashes, sheep killed or stolen, two Palestinians shot dead, and dozens wounded. Last month, Israeli settlers unleashed a wave of violence all over the occupied West Bank. More than 1,500 settlers attacked al-Mughayyir and a dozen other villages in mid-April. Using the kidnapping and killing of a 14-year-old settler as an excuse, they targeted cars, houses, agricultural tools, and livestock. Attacks are still ongoing, with houses being burnt in Duma and other villages south of Nablus in recent weeks. “The situation in al-Mughayyir and other villages is unbearable. The vi...
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At a football stadium in Diyarbakir, Turkey’s largest Kurdish-majority city, the voice of a Kurdish soprano entrances a sea of fans in red, green, and white jerseys. Thousands of supporters came to Diyarbakir Stadium on 11 May to celebrate Amedspor’s Turkish Football Federation (TFF) second-league title win and promotion to TFF 1. A championship win is a moment to savour for any club. But for Amedspor, victory is all the more sweet. The past ten years have been nothing short of a slog for the club. Since a name and ownership change in 2014, the club has been the target of rival fan violence an...
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On 11 May, CNN exposed Israel’s harrowing treatment of dozens of Gazan prisoners held hostage in the Sde Teiman desert camp-turned-detention centre. In the report, which stirred widespread condemnation, whistle-blowers revealed that Gazan hostages were subjected to “extreme physical restraint” and “stripped down of anything that resembles human beings”. When The New Arab interviewed several of the 76 Gazan prisoners released just days after the CNN report was published, it became apparent that these abuses were not exclusive to that one prison. Sami al-Ghoula, a 53-year-old father of eight, de...
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There are growing concerns in Egypt over a newly-declared Sinai-based alliance of 30 Bedouin tribes, with questions being raised about the timing, and purpose, of its formation. Led by controversial businessman Ibrahim Al-Organi (also spelt Arjani or Argani), the Union of Arab Tribes was officially announced on 1 May during a large celebration in the once-restive North Sinai province in the presence of state officials, parliamentarians, tribal leaders, businessmen, and public figures. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been designated as "the honorary chairman" of the group, which was...
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