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Gaza doctor who lost nine children in Israeli airstrike dies from wounds in same attack

Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in Khan Younis

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2025

Gaza’s forgotten victims: Starving one-year-old Siham, swamped in newborn clothes

Her mother, Ikhlas, 28, who fled Israel’s ferocious bombardment of northern Gaza four times, says she was herself so malnourished she struggled to breastfeed

The Independent UK · May 10, 2025

‘I feared I would end up in the trench’: Digging Assad’s mass graves in Syria

IN FOCUS: Bel Trew reports from the site of a mass grave at Qutayfah, about 25 miles from the Syrian capital Damascus. There, she speaks to someone who dug the trenches before realising the true horror of what was happening at the site – while others warn of the scale…

The Independent UK · Dec 21, 2024

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‘We think he died just before regime collapsed’: Syrians scour morgues full of tortured bodies

SPECIAL DISPATCH: From Assad’s slaughterhouse jail to the hospital morgue piled up with mutilated bodies, desperate Syrians search for family members disappeared under a despot’s brutal regime, reports Bel Trew

The Independent UK · Dec 10, 2024

‘They tortured me when I asked to see him’: Wife of jailed Syrian reveals truth of Assad’s slaughterhouse jail

As the brutality of the Assad regime falls away, Bel Trew finds families driven by desperation, grief and fury as they searched for their lost loved ones

The Independent UK · Dec 10, 2024

Palestinian Father Mourns Loss Of Second Son In Gaza

A heart-wrenching story of a Palestinian father's loss in a tragic Israeli airstrike incident in Gaza.

Top News · Oct 4, 2024

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Hiding in the kitchen from Israeli snipers: A Jenin family’s diary

From her kitchen, Saja Bawaqneh, 29, recounts the first day of Israel’s raid into the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp.

Al Jazeera · Aug 30, 2024

The best translated fiction – review roundup

Mammoth by Eva Baltasar; Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes; The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem; Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2024

As war looms over Lebanon, refugees wonder how they will survive

Syrians and Sudanese nationals are trapped between war raging in their own countries and a war looming over Lebanon.

Al Jazeera · Aug 17, 2024

Israeli attack kills 10, mostly children, in Gaza’s Rafah

Funerals are held for Palestinians killed in Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, as Israel continues to target Rafah.

Al Jazeera · Apr 20, 2024

Six children among nine dead in Rafah after Israeli airstrike on southern Palestine city

Seven month siege continues in Palestinian territory

Evening Standard · Apr 20, 2024

Gaza death toll passes 34,000 as Israel and Iran missile strikes grab global attention

Grim milestone comes as G7 leaders urge Netanyahu not to press ahead with Rafah invasion

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2024

Israeli Airstrike In Rafah Kills Nine Palestinians, Including Six Children

The strike late Friday targeted a residential building in Rafah's western Tel Sultan neighborhood, as reported by Gaza's civil defense.

International Business Times · Apr 20, 2024

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The Guardian - AU · Apr 3, 2024

Meet the Sydney volunteers who are feeding families fleeing Gaza

Palestinians arriving in Australia on visitor visas are facing hardship – and community organisations are stepping in to help

WEKU · Mar 3, 2024

Destruction from the war with Israel has cut Gaza off from the outside world

Spotty internet and cell services, blackouts and the destruction of infrastructure in Gaza during Israel's war with Hamas have hampered aid and medical services and keeping in touch with loved ones.

France 24 · Jan 8, 2024

‘Freedom is paid for in blood’: In the occupied West Bank, families long to bury their dead

An Israeli strike killed six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, four of whom were brothers. The attack took place in the city of Jenin and left a total of seven dead, including an Israeli police officer. As the family of the brothers buried their “martyrs”, others are…

International Business Times · Dec 11, 2023

'I'm Destroyed': UN Envoys Confront Cost Of Israel-Hamas War

Aid trucks stalled at the Gaza border, hospitals treating missing limbs: UN Security Council envoys visiting Egypt on Monday encountered the fallout of the Israel-Hamas war, days after the United States vetoed a ceasefire resolution.

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Al Jazeera · Dec 2, 2023

‘We will never forget’: Reliving the pain of the Nakba amid Israel’s war

A Palestinian family displaced in 1948 and then again to Jordan in 1967 say war on Gaza makes them feel it over again.

The Guardian - AU · Oct 22, 2023

Large crowd gathers at pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne as WA man mourns sister killed in Gaza

Australians are grieving for those killed on both sides of Israel-Hamas war, Adam Bandt tells protesters

The Independent UK · May 3, 2023

Sudan evacuation rips British families apart as relatives left behind: ‘We had one chance and it’s gone’

‘My wife doesn’t even have access to her passport because it is with the British embassy’

The Independent UK · May 2, 2023

British families ripped apart as relatives left in Sudan: ‘We had one chance and it’s gone’

‘My wife doesn’t even have access to her passport because it is with the British embassy’

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 14, 2022

Egypt: Mubarak's Family Hails Swiss Decision to Release Funds as 'Full Exoneration'

Swiss prosecutors dropped an 11-year investigation into alleged money laundering and organized crime by Egyptians close to late former President Hosni Mubarak, toppled by the January 2011 uprising. The office of the Swiss attorney general said Wednesday that despite the numerous "inquiries and having transferred 32 million Swiss francs to…

Daily Mirror · Apr 9, 2022

Homeless twins waking up in squalid camp are forgotten victims of Putin's Syria bombs

Forgotten war victims still sleep in squalid camp years after losing homes in Russian President Putin's bombing campaign to help Syrian dictator Bashar-al Assad

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2022

Revealed: Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians

Massive leak reveals Swiss bank’s accounts have been used by an array of high-risk clients over several decades

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