To add to my analysis post from last week, on the humanitarian crisis along the Gaza strip: the Gaza strip is one of the few Palestine controlled territories lingering, after almost all has been taken over by Israel. This week Qatari bought fuel was brought to the strip, supported and in a way protected by the United Nations. I believe… Read more »
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has granted a general amnesty for men who deserted the army or have avoided military service.
Qatari-bought fuel arrived at the Gaza Strip’s only power station after entering through Israel, sources said, in a bid to alleviate conditions in the besieged enclave and stem any escalation in Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Two blond, white men look into the camera, with beautiful Syrian hilltops and blurred village buildings in the background.
Egyptian police have detained the youngest son of overthrown former President Mohamed Morsi from his home on the outskirts of Cairo, his family and security sources said.
Palestine and Israel continue on their long aged conflict of who gets what. Both nations would like the land of and around Jerusalem, and Palestine’s grip on it has been slowly peeled off by the state of Israel. In reaction to the lack of satisfaction from both nations, protest have become extremely violent with thousands injured and hundreds dead, many… Read more »
The case of a 12-year old Kurdish Syrian girl recruited to fight alongside local militias has highlighted ongoing concerns about the recruitment of child soldiers by Kurdish forces. Avin Saroxan appeared on a Kurdish TV channel dressed in military uniform with a group of other underage girls in Deir ez-Zor, apparently all engaged in fighting against Islamic State forces. According… Read more »
IWPR Syria project coordinator Zaina Erhaim has been awarded the 2016 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for journalism. Erhaim, 30, returned to the war-torn Syria in 2013. Based in Aleppo, she has since trained about 100 citizen reporters, around a third of them women, who are now among the very few able to provide eyewitness accounts of events… Read more »
Palestinian officials rejected US President Donald Trump‘s comments supporting a two-state solution for Palestinians and Israelis, saying American policies were destroying any hope for peace. Trump made the statement during the annual United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He said a two-state solution could resolve the decades-old Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Gaza Strip – Almost six months have passed since the start of a massive wave of protests known as the Great March of Return, organised by the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. They started on March 30, the commemoration of Land Day, which marks the events of March 30, 1976, when Israeli police shot and killed six Palestinian citizens of Israel as they… Read more »