Dania Akkad
Senior Investigations Editor at Middle East Eye
Californian. Syrian. Londoner. Award-winning journalist @MiddleEastEye. Send tips via Signal: +4407902945323
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6 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad |Omar Abdel-Mannan
The organisation set to administer Israel's controversial plan to take control of humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza will use private security contractors to hand out 1,750 kcal meals to Palestinians that will cost donors a little more than a dollar each. Details about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) strategy for Gaza are laid out in a 14-page document circulating amongst aid organisations working on Gaza and seen by Middle East Eye.
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1 week ago |
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad
Aid workers say the ‘worst point’ of Israel’s war on Gaza has come as Israel moves to take control of aid distribution in the enclave with the help of private American security contractors and facial recognition tools. “What are our choices?” one aid worker said to Middle East Eye this week, reflecting on the dilemma now facing aid organisations trying to reach people in the besieged enclave and speaking on condition of anonymity.
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1 week ago |
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad
Israeli import data revealed in a report released on Wednesday suggests that a wide range of UK-made military goods and arms, including F-35 fighter jet parts, have continued to be sent to Israel even after the British government suspended of 30 arms export licences in September.
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1 week ago |
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad
Two young girls from Gaza have arrived in the UK, the first Palestinian children in need of specialist medical treatment to be evacuated to the country, over a year and a half into a war that has devastated Gaza's healthcare system. Rama, 12, and Ghena, five, travelled to the UK from Egypt last week and will be treated in the private wings of leading hospitals in London, through a project funded entirely by charitable donations. "We were so scared.
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2 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad
The UK Middle East minister, facing over a dozen calls from a cross-section of MPs for the UK to recognise a Palestinian state, said that “practical measures” are still needed before such a state would be possible. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East Hamish Falconer made his comments in a debate on Tuesday following this week’s visit of the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa to London and the signing of a UK-Palestinian memorandum of understanding.
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🚨New court documents in @alhaq_org + @GLAN_LAW challenge show UK assessed there was 'no serious risk' of Israel committing genocide in Gaza last June Now its lawyers are arguing there ‘is a tenable view that no genocide had occurred or is occurring’ https://t.co/A6qQezv8JY
RT @SeanPmathews: A great REVEAL by my colleague @daniaakkad --quick to the scene
🚨Scoop: Details about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the organisation set to administer Israel's controversial aid plan for Gaza - revealed in new document. The whos and the hows. My story on @MiddleEastEye: https://t.co/5TLiUC5aPI