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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1 week ago |
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad
The company that funded a report on the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October 2023 for a parliamentary group on Israel is no longer listed in a British peer’s register of interests days after a complaint naming the firm was filed with a standards watchdog. Cedarsoak Ltd is a UK-based company in which Lord Mendelsohn, the former chair of Labour Friends of Israel, and Lord Polak, the former chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel, are directors.
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2 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad |Sean Mathews |Lubna Masarwa
A UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution that would have established a mechanism to help with the investigation of crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories was watered down following backroom pressure from the US, a US official and a source briefed by a European diplomat told Middle East Eye. The final wording of the resolution, adopted by the council this week, invites the UN General Assembly only “to consider establishing” such a body.
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4 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad |Anna Stavrianakis
26 March 2025 11:16 GMT ago We spent three years trying to find out what happened in Whitehall after the Great Hall attack in Yemen. We discovered how decisions fly with political winds, not facts on the ground - just as in Gaza It all began with a simple question. How did British officials react after Saudi Arabia killed 155 people and wounded hundreds more at a funeral in Yemen in 2016?
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1 month ago |
middleeasteye.net | Simon Hooper |Dania Akkad |Gary Spedding |Joseph A. Massad
An investment firm headed by Jared Kushner and backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates is the largest shareholder in an Israeli company which in turn holds shares in businesses accused by the United Nations of operating in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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1 month ago |
middleeasteye.net | Dania Akkad
The UK is “confident” in its position to continue licensing the export of spare parts that could end up in Israeli F-35 fighter jets even as Israel has halted aid and electricity entering Gaza, the UK’s Middle East minister has said.
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NEW - Firm that funded APPG UK-Israel 7 October report disappears from British peer’s register of interests days after complaint naming company filed with parliamentary standards authority Why? https://t.co/p9hge4nwvO
NEW - The US sucessfully pressured the Palestinian Authority to water down a UNHRC resolution A legal mechanism to assist the investigation + prosecution of criminal perpetrators in the OPT was dropped Latest w/@SeanPmathews + @lubnamasarwa https://t.co/pn7OO4lrzb
RT @jmcevoy_2: Exclusive -- F-35 components are being transported on Maersk ships to an Israeli airforce base this week, new documents sugg…