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2 weeks ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Sean Mathews |Ahmed Najar
The US private military contracting firm set to oversee Gaza aid distribution on Israel's behalf is actively hiring for positions on LinkedIn, according to job postings shared with Middle East Eye by current and former US officials. The firm, Safe Reach Solutions, or SRS, says it is actively looking for “Humanitarian Liaison Officers” who will “serve as vital connectors between our operational teams and the broader humanitarian community,” according to one job description.
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1 month ago | 
defenddemocracy.press | Belen Fernandez |Ahmed Najar
By Belén FernándezApr. 11, 2025Israeli soldiers on March 23 massacred 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers near the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israel’s ongoing US-backed genocide has officially killed more than 50,000 Palestinians since October 2023.
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1 month ago | 
nuclear-news.net | Belen Fernandez |Ahmed Najar |Christina MacPherson
Media Find Ways to Minimize Israel’s Murder of Paramedics Belén Fernández, April 11, 2025, https://fair.org/home/media-find-ways-to-minimize-israels-murder-of-paramedics/Israeli soldiers on March 23 massacred 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers near the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israel’s ongoing US-backed genocide has officially killed more than 50,000 Palestinians since October 2023.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Nader Durgham |Ahmed Najar
Palestinians, who were hoping for relief during a fragile ceasefire, return to mourning loved ones and documenting their plight Men offer a funeral prayer in front of the bodies of people, who were killed in Israeli bombardments, at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on 26 March 2025 (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP) 28 March 2025 12:52 GMT ago Amidst a crowd of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, a woman stood alone, crying and gasping for breath as she struggled to take another step.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Azad Essa |Ahmed Najar
A New Jersey high school is under fire from parents for an assignment that allegedly used misleading and incorrect information about a high-profile Palestinian student activist currently facing deportation. Educational advocates and parents said the student project was an attempt to manipulate students with false information that did not merely distort the case but also sought to spread dangerous allusions about anti-war protesters demonstrating against Israel's war on Gaza.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Nader Durgham |Ahmed Najar
Israel’s sudden resumption of its war on Gaza has killed at least 436 Palestinians since Tuesday, according to the local health ministry. Israel says it is targeting Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets, but nearly 42 percent of the victims have been children. Social media is awash with people mourning children killed by attacks over the past two days.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Rayhan Uddin |Ahmed Najar
Something that separates Ramadan from other times of the year is a change of routine. That includes waking up for suhoor, a pre-dawn meal which Muslims eat in preparation for fasting. Families, sometimes including children, rise together during the holy month to eat suhoor and perform Fajrdawn prayers. On Tuesday, hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza were killed by Israeli bombs in those early hours of suhoor. Some had been awake eating with their families.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | David Hearst |Ahmed Najar
It was 4am when I stumbled out of bed, half-asleep, to get a glass of water - a simple, thoughtless act. As I reached for my phone, I hesitated. Checking it might keep me awake. I wish I had resisted. The screen lit up. My feed was drowning in horror - again. Gaza. Another massacre. At first, the numbers were uncertain. A hundred dead. Then 200. Then 300. But I knew. The number always rises. And this time, it wouldn't stop...350...400...450.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Syma Mohammed |Ahmed Najar
In an unprecedented move, a US-based human rights group has formally submitted a referral at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against members of the previous administration of Joe Biden and the former president for their complicity in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad |Ahmed Najar
More than a dozen civil society organisations have urged an Arab League-led security body to stop facilitating the extradition of dissidents and human rights defenders in the region. The organisations, led by the Geneva-based MENA Rights Group, wrote in an open letter that the Arab Interior Ministers Council must “undertake urgent reforms, in consultation with civil society, to align its legal framework and systems with international human rights law”.
