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Israeli forces are continuing to bomb the southern, southwestern and eastern areas of Gaza City. Warplanes bombed a house in the Yabna camp in Rafah, and crews recovered eight bodies, including five children and two women, after warplanes bombed a room on agricultural land in the Al-Salam neighbourhood, south of Rafah - Wafa reports. A man-made famine is also "tightening its grip" across the Gaza Strip, the head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA warned on Wednesday as he accused Israel of blocking aid deliveries and seeking to end UNRWA's activities in the enclave. "Today,...
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday his country would decide for itself how to respond to Iran's unprecedented attack, with world leaders urging restraint. Meanwhile, the war in Gaza that has sent regional tensions soaring continued unabated with efforts at a truce appearing to flounder, as key mediator Qatar said it was re-evaluating its role in the stalling negotiations. The Israeli military has vowed to respond to Iran's missile and drone attack last weekend, prompting a diplomatic flurry aimed at calming the Middle East. Washington and Brussels have pledged to ramp up...
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Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Wednesday an Israeli retaliation against Iranian strikes could bring a real risk of dragging the whole region into a devastating war. In an interview released by state media, Safadi said his country was lobbying major powers against an escalation that would have far-reaching consequences for regional stability and security. "The risks are enormous. That could drag the whole region into war, which would be devastating to us in the region and we’ll have very, very serious implications for the rest of the world including the U.S," Safadi said. "The s...
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A Tunisian court Wednesday condemned a journalist and virulent critic of President Kais Saied to six months in prison for defaming a civil servant, his brother and lawyer told AFP. Mohamed Boughalleb was arrested by a cybercrime unit a month ago following a complaint filed by a civil servant. The complainant, a woman working in the Tunisian ministry of religious affairs, accused Boughalleb of "damaging her honour and reputation" in Facebook posts and according to local media. Boughalleb had suggested on social media and private radio that overseas trips by the official were a form of "corrupti...
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A new organisation has been formed in solidarity with Tunisia’s detained former Speaker of Parliament, 82-year-old Rached Ghannouchi, one year after he was imprisoned by the government of current President Kais Saied. The formation of International Committee for Solidarity with Rached Ghannouchi was announced on Wednesday. The committee said that the former parliamentary speaker, who also chairs the moderate Islamist Ennahdha party was "unjustly detained at his home" and "taken to an unknown location, denied access to a lawyer, and subjected to a lengthy and degrading interrogation". Ghannouch...
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Authorities and communities across the United Arab Emirates were clearing debris on Wednesday after the UAE faced the heaviest rain in the nation’s history. The UAE witnessed a record rainfall with 254 mm falling in Al Ain on Tuesday in less than 24 hours, according to the National Meteorology Centre (NMC). The state-run WAM news agency called the rain Tuesday "a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949." Rain also fell in Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The country's hereditary rulers offered no overall damage or injury info...
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Iran has already started taking action as it braces for a retaliatory attack from Israel. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah have both reduced the presence of their senior officers in Syria, while other officers are reportedly shifting from their locations. Israel has vowed to respond to Iran’s missile and drone strikes on the country on 13 April, which was triggered by Israel’s attack on the Iranian consular building in Damascus which killed several people. The IRGC has undertaken a number of emergency measures, including evacuating their bases in Syria, especially at ...
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) published a report on Tuesday saying it had documented the release of 1,506 Palestinian detainees via the Karam Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing on 4 April, many of whom had suffered torture, ill-treatment, and sexual violence. UNRWA staff members were among the released detainees, and the report said they were forced to confess to actions they were innocent of. UNRWA said that the released detainees had described being transported in trucks to "military barracks" in southern Israel and were completely cut off from th...
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An Algerian journalist was expelled from the country after flying in from France and not being allowed to leave the airport as journalists continue to face challenges reporting in Algeria. Farid Alilat, a writer for the French-language magazine Jeune Afrique, wrote on Facebook that he spent 11 hours in police custody on Saturday at the airport before being boarded onto a plane and sent to France, where he has a residency permit. Alilat said he regularly takes flights from Paris to Algiers to report on Algeria, where he has for years been a well-known journalist due to his work for French-langu...
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An Amnesty International senior advisor has said the US-led coalition was "not doing enough" to address serious torture and human rights violations inSyrian camps. Lauren Aarons, the senior advisor on gender, conflict and international justice at the organisation told The New Arab that the rights group had found patterns of systematic torture and coercion, which the US has been involved in. "They [US-led coalition] brought people into the system of detention…they fund the system of detention, they’re coming in and interrogating people and are not doing enough to address these horrific human ri...
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