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Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, withwar-torn Gaza as the territory with the largest number of people facing famine, according to the Global Report on Food Crises released Wednesday. The UN report said 24 million more people faced an acute lack of food than in 2022 due to the sharp deterioration in food security, especially in the Gaza Strip and Sudan. The number of nations with food crises that are monitored has also been expanded. It said conflict will also continue to drive food insecurity in Haiti, where gangs control large portions of the capit...
The New Arab
Top Israeli intelligence and military officials met with Egypt’s intelligence chief and other senior officials in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss Israel’s planned invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza. Ronan Bar, the head of Israel’s internal security agency Shin Bet, and Herzi Halevi, the Israeli military Chief of Staff, met with Abbas Kamal, the head of Egypt’s intelligence service, and Osama Askar, the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Axios reported. The meeting between the Israeli and Egyptian officials coincided with an announcement by Israel that it was "moving ahead" with the ass...
The New Arab
The Egyptian government said on Wednesday it had approved establishing a special free zone and an international touristic port in the Mediterranean Ras al-Hekma beach resort, west of Alexandria. The Ras al-Hekma Development Project Company will set up the project, which has been granted a golden license to develop an investment and a private free zone, the cabinet said in a statement. In February, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates struck a landmark investment partnership to develop the Ras al-Hekma (also spelt al-Hikma and El-Hekma) worth US$35 billion. To bolster the project, the Egyptian go...
The New Arab
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager early on Thursday, during the storming of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Khaled Raed Arouq, 16, originally from the city of Jenin, was in Ramallah during the time of Israeli assault on the city, which is home to President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority. According to local Palestinian media, Arouq was shot in the chest and was later pronounced dead after arriving at the Palestine Medical Complex. Eyewitnesses told local media that Israeli military vehicles were stationed near the Al-Tahta and Al-Tira neighbourhoods, where confrontations br...
The New Arab
An Ethiopian Airlines plane was forced to cover up the words "Tel Aviv" marked on its aircraft after it touched down at Beirut's international airport on Thursday due to Lebanon not recognising Israel. Security at the airport flagged the aircraft, which had the registration number ET-AXK, after spotting the sign which was reportedly in small font and difficult to spot from a distance, Lebanon's directorate general of civil aviation reported. Ethiopian Airlines said it was customary to imprint its aircraft with the name of the first airport it landed at after purchase, and had not noticed the d...
The New Arab
In Morocco, the Jewish community struggles to find joy this Passover as Israel's war ravages Gaza and dozens of Israeli captives remain held. In Casablanca, home to the majority of the 2,500 remaining Jewish community in the country, where once there would be lively religious gatherings, now there is a palpable stillness, a solemn acknowledgement of the 200-day war just beyond the horizon. "It's distasteful to celebrate this year, as innocent hostages remain captive, and thousands of Palestinians are daily massacred in Gaza," said Adela, a Jewish Moroccan woman, to The New Arab. "All we can do...
The New Arab
In its annual global report on human rights practices for 2023, the United States State Department has raised concerns over worsening human rights conditions in Iraq and the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR). The report highlights increased restrictions on fundamental freedoms and civic space imposed by authorities in Erbil and Baghdad compared to the previous year. The document examines human rights in Iraq and Kurdistan, citing misconduct by security forces and violations against journalists and activists. It highlights extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture, harsh prison conditions, arb...
The New Arab
The courtyard ofNasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, shook with screams. Mariam Abdel al-Aal screamed at others, telling them that one of the bodies recovered from the hospital was her husband, with whom she lost contact two months ago. What the civil defence man was holding was a torn shirt and worn-out pants that covered the remains of the body, whose features were almost completely decomposed. Abdel al-Aal began holding the worn-out clothes and telling those in the hospital courtyard, "He is my husband. I know him. He was wearing these clothes on the day I left him in the...
The New Arab
Before 7 October, Naeem al-Najjar lived like any other child, spending his days playing with his friends. Naeem's parents described the six-year-old from the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza strip as healthy and full of life. When Israel's military operation on Gaza started, a day after Hamas's surprise attack, which killed 1,150 Israelis, Naeem's life was turned upside down. He and his four siblings were forced to flee their home as Israel ordered all civilians out of north Gaza – the first of several displacements for the family. In tandem with its bombardment of Gaza and killing of over 34...
The New Arab
The White House has said it seeks "answers" from Israel after the discovery of mass graves at Gaza hospitals destroyed in Israeli sieges. More than 300 bodies of people - allegedly killed and buried by Israeli forces at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis - have so far been recovered. Other graves at al-Shifa Hospital in northern were also located. "We want answers. We want to see this thoroughly and transparently investigated," National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters. Hospitals, which have protection under international law, have repeatedly come under Israeli bombardment during ...
The New Arab
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