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The US and UK’s complicity in torture and detention practices has once again come under the spotlight amid revelations of the systematic abuses and preventable deaths of detainees in northeast Syria. Following the territorial defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria a harrowing system of arbitrary and indefinite detention has emerged, overseen by the region's autonomous authorities, notably the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), key partners of the US-led coalition against IS. According to Amnesty International, “the US government has played a central role in the creation and maintenance of this...
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Earlier this year, several Western countries froze their funding to UNRWA after Israel accused 12 of its employees of participating in the 7 October attacks. The accusations sparked international uproar and reignited a longstanding campaign within Israel to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem. While attempts to “evict” UNRWA’s Jerusalem offices are not new, the campaign is now bolstered at both the governmental and grassroots levels. Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, is currently debating a bill to ban UNRWA from operating in occupied East Jerusalem. It passed its first preliminary reading in February ...
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'Undo the damage, before it’s too late'. This is the tagline of a controversial new ad campaign underway in Lebanon, fuelling a surge in violence targeting Syrian refugees. New billboards began popping up nationwide in March, with TV spots airing on MTV, carrying a rallying call that “the Syrian displaced issue needs immediate action”. Leaning heavily on xenophobic messaging, the campaign is further instigating a generalised climate of hostility towards refugees, a climate that has led to an increase in violent attacks that have erupted in recent weeks following the death of prominent Christia...
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Since the war in Gaza began in October, Israel has used GPS jamming in Gaza, Lebanon, and against Iran’s 13 April strikes. While such jamming can hinder communications and guided weaponry, it also interferes with civilian communications and, more dangerously, civil aviation. When Iran launched its unprecedented missile and drone attack against Israel on 13 April, several civilians across the Middle East found their vehicle GPS, Google Maps, and Uber phone apps displaying wildly incorrect locations. Some users found their devices pinning them in entirely different countries. Israeli GPS jamming...
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During Israel’s deadly war in Gaza, now in its sixth month, Tel Aviv has reportedly granted 12 licences for gas exploration off the Gaza coast to six local and foreign companies, among them the Italian energy company Eni, Britain’s BP, Dana Petroleum - a subsidiary of Korea National Oil Corporation - and Israeli Ratio Petroleum. In late October, about three weeks after Israel began its military attack on Gaza, the country’s Ministry of Energy announced that it had awarded new natural gas concessions in zones that, according to international law, are deemed to fall within Palestinian maritime b...
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An exponential number of Palestine-related crowdfunding campaigns have sprung up over recent months following Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed over 33,000 people and left over a million close to starvation. Today, it is estimated that there are thousands of active fundraisers across popular platforms like GoFundMe, Chuffed, and GoGetFunding. “I ran out of choices. Please help me evacuate my family from Gaza to Egypt,” wrote one Gazan fundraiser on X last month. “I’m hoping to travel to Egypt as soon as I have the amount needed to facilitate their exit directly. Please share and donate as...
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Masafer Yatta \- A cool wind blows across the green hills of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on an early spring day. Ibrahim, a Palestinian shepherd from Wadi Jheish, leads his sheep out of their pen. His face tanned by the sun and adorned with a white beard, Ibrahim’s eyes scan his surroundings - danger looms over him and his flock. The day before, several Israeli settlers, dressed in army uniforms, came to harass him as he brought in the herd with his son, joined by his wife and their daughter. "They pointed their rifles at us, made us lie on our stomachs, on the gr...
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Four unarmed Palestinian men are walking in the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip surrounded by no one except the wreckage from Israeli bombardments. Seemingly searching for their homes or lost relatives, an explosion shatters the men’s brief respite from war. Two of the men are wiped out. The third man, now hobbling away from the targeted site, is quickly eliminated by another blast. The fourth man falls to his knees and, in an instant, is blown to pieces by yet another airstrike. This scene, reportedly occurring in February, of heinous brutality depicted in Israeli drone footage...
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One year into its devastating civil war, Sudan is experiencing its highest-ever levels of food insecurity as the country stands on the brink of the world’s largest hunger crisis. An estimated 18 million Sudanese - or around 40 percent of the nation - face severe levels of hunger, with nearly three million children suffering from acute malnutrition. Reports of people dying from starvation have been trickling in for some time now. Some of the states hardest hit by the fighting, such as Darfur, Kordofan, and Gezira, have traditionally been regions of high agricultural production, but the war has ...
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Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, presented a report to the UN Human Rights Council last week, saying that Israel has carried out acts of genocide in Gaza and should be placed under an international arms embargo. The UN human rights expert said in her report - entitled Anatomy of a Genocide) – that there were clear indications that Israel has violated three of the five acts listed under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. These include killing Palestinians; causing serious bodily or mental harm; and “deliberately inflicting cond...
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