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Iraqi authorities have executed at least 11 people convicted of "terrorism" this week, security and health sources said Wednesday, with rights group Amnesty International condemning an "alarming lack of transparency". Under Iraqi law, terrorism and murder offences are punishable by death, and execution decrees must be signed by the president. A security source in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province told AFP that 11 "terrorists from the Islamic State group" were executed by hanging at a prison in the city of Nasiriyah, "under the supervision of a justice ministry team". A local medical source conf...
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Iran has reduced its military footprint in Syria after a succession of Israeli strikes, a source close to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and a war monitor said Wednesday. Iran has provided military support to Syrian regime forces through more than a decade of civil war, but a series of strikes targeting its commanders in recent months has prompted a reshaping of its presence, the sources said. "Iran withdrew its forces from southern Syria," including both Quneitra and Daraa provinces, which abut the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, the source close to Hezbollah said. But it still maintains...
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Egyptian authorities on Wednesday released 18 people, mostly women, who were arrested a day earlier in Cairo during a solidarity rally for women in war-torn Gaza and Sudan, a lawyer said. "All those arrested during yesterday's protest in front of the UN (Women) headquarters have been released," rights lawyer Tarek el-Awadi posted on X. Prominent activist Lobna Darwish of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) was among those detained at Tuesday's protest, along with rights lawyers Ragia Omran and Mahienour el-Massry, lawyer Khaled Ali had said earlier. The rights lawyer and former ...
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Extremist Israelis stormed occupied East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Wednesday, under the protection of Israeli police. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that they numbered in the hundreds, and carried out rituals at site, the third holiest in Islam. It comes after around 172 Israeli extremists raided the site and performed rituals on Monday, according to Wafa. Under a longstanding status-quo agreement, prayer at Al-Aqsa is reserved for Muslims. While Al-Aqsa is a highly revered holy site for Muslims, Jews consider the complex the most sacred site in their religion, ...
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Israel's diaspora affairs minister sparked outrage after saying he would vote for Donald Trump if he could in this year's United States presidential election. In an interview with Kan Radio, Amichai Chikli, who is in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, said US President Joe Biden's leadership was harming Israel and other countries. "If I were an American citizen with the right to vote, I'd vote for Trump and Republicans," he said. "Biden is a friend of Israel, but he's under intense pressure that is affecting him and creating real damage to relations between the countries....
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Hamas military spokesperson Abu Obeida quoted a poem by a Palestinian-Egyptian poet as he made an apparent reference to Israeli "invaders" having "no shame". It came as the masked spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, marked 200 days of Israel's war on Gaza on Tuesday. The reference is from a 2019 poem by Tamim Al-Barghouti, who is often referred to as the "poet of Jerusalem" in Arabic. "We have known invaders before you," the poem reads, adding: "Seventy years and you have no shame." Abu Obeida also sent greetings to the "dear Jordanian masses" and invited them to "escalate...
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A high-ranking source within Hamas has revealed the group continues to hold at least 30 Israeli officers while confirming Yahya Sinwar, the group's leader in Gaza, continues to lead 'effectively'. In remarks carried by The New Arab's sister Arabic-language outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, the source, who was not named, said that the Israeli occupation government is "systematically engaging in deception targeting the Israeli public and families of prisoners held by the resistance, aiming to evade the duty of releasing these prisoners." The source refuted claims circulated by Israeli media outlets tha...
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Over 400 bodies have now been recovered from mass graves in and around a major hospital in Gaza's Khan Younis, relief workers have said. Three mass graves containing hundreds of bodies, mostly of women and children, were discovered at Nasser Hospital, aid groups told Sky News Arabia. This comes after Gaza's civil defence said on Sunday that health workers had uncovered bodies of people killed and buried by Israeli forces at Nasser Hospital during their raid. The mass graves were discovered weeks after Israeli forces ended a three-month occupation of Khan Younis, where they repeatedly attacked ...
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At least 16 Egyptian feminists were detained in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Tuesday as they held a peaceful protest in solidary with women in the war-ravaged Sudan and Gaza. Witnesses told The New Arab that Egyptian security forces violently dispersed a peaceful gathering of about two dozen protesters, mostly female journalists, human rights lawyers and activists, outside the UN Women's regional office in the Maadi neighourhood. Veteran journalistsEman Ouf and Rasha Azab, and high-profile activists, including lawyers Mahienour El-Masry and Ragia Omran, attempted to hand in a letter to offi...
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Only a few days after returning to their homes in the Beit Lahia town in north Gaza, dozens of Palestinian families were once again forcibly displaced by the Israeli army. The new Israeli military orders came under the pretext that its forces are about to launch a heavy assault at allegedly military sites belonging to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other armed local factions. Separately speaking to The New Arab, several residents of Beit Lahia expressed shock and dismay over the Israel army's order to leave their homes. Many of them do not know where to go. Once again Hanadi Abu Nada, a ...
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