The MED This Week newsletter provides informed insights on the most significant developments in the MENA region, bringing together unique opinions and reliable foresight on future scenarios. Today, we shed light on the wave of mass protests that have shaken the Arab world against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas conflict, zooming in on their implications for Arab countries’ domestic …
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They let humanitarian aid in. Then they bombed it so that Gaza would starve.
One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it once all the flour was unloaded. BY TAREQ S. HAJJAJ PALESTINIANS AND CIVIL DEFENSE INSPECT A DESTROYED BAKERY AFTER AN AIRSTRIKE THAT KILLED FOUR PEOPLE …
Read More »Israel-Palestine: Siege and shelling ‘wants to return Gaza to the stone age’
Getting access to the basics, such as bread and water, is an everyday struggle for Gaza’s besieged residents A woman looks on from behind a gate next to the bodies of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 26 October 2023 (Reuters) By Maha Hussaini in Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine Published date: 25 October 2023 …
Read More »How Israel’s war on Gaza exposed the West’s hatred of Palestinians
The recent contempt shown for Palestinians reveals that the West hasn’t become less hostile towards them and that any sympathy is confined to their being passive victims In a viral video, Egyptian activist Zein Rahma, right, confronts CNN’s Clarissa Ward on the network’s reporting of the Israel-Palestine war, in Rafah, on 20 October (Screengrab) The ongoing Palestinian-Israeli war …
Read More »Israel-Palestine war: The West’s denial of Palestinian history and humanity is enabling genocide
A demonstrator holds a sign during an anti-war demonstration hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace on the National Mall near the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. on 18 October, 2023 (Reuters) The western love of Zionism has always depended on erasing Palestinian history and humanity. Across the western world, the official and media horror at this month’s unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel, which …
Read More »Israel-Palestine war: Gaza has sparked a meltdown in the West’s colonial mindset
The western world remains unmoved by Palestinian suffering, demanding instead that they condemn themselves for daring to struggle for freedom from settler-colonialism A father mourns as he carries the body of a child killed in Israeli air strikes from the morgue of Al-Aqsa Hospital to be buried as Israeli attacks continue in Rafah, Gaza on 15 October, 2023 …
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