Ephrem Kossaify

1 week ago | arabnews.com | Ephrem Kossaify

NEW YORK CITY: Nearly two years into the civil war in Sudan, the humanitarian crisis continues to spiral, with more than 13 million people now forcibly displaced and human rights violations escalating, the UN Refugee Agency warned on Monday. “This is a very, very sad milestone,” said Mamadou Dian Balde, the agency’s regional director for East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes.

2 weeks ago | arabnews.com | Ephrem Kossaify

NEW YORK CITY: South Sudan is grappling with an unprecedented humanitarian crisis as escalating violence in the country, particularly in the conflict-ridden Greater Upper Nile region, exacerbates a dire situation of food insecurity, the UN’s food agency said on Wednesday. The World Food Program warned that nearly 7.7 million people, more half of the country’s population, are currently facing crisis, emergency or catastrophic levels of hunger.

2 weeks ago | arabnews.jp | Ephrem Kossaify

NEW YORK CITY: The UN secretary-general evoked several provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention on Tuesday to remind Israeli authorities of an occupying power’s “unequivocal” obligations under international law. The obligations Antonio Guterres highlighted included ensuring the welfare of the civilian population, the supply of food and medicine, and the maintenance of public health services. “None of that is happening today,” he said. “No humanitarian supplies can enter Gaza.

2 weeks ago | arabnews.com | Ephrem Kossaify

NEW YORK CITY: Basel Adra, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land,” has garnered global attention for his compelling portrayal of the hardships faced by Palestinians in the West Bank, particularly his home region of Masafer Yatta. The film chronicles the ongoing violence against, and forced displacement of, Palestinians at the hands of Israeli forces and settlers in an area designated a restricted military zone by Israel since the 1980s.

2 weeks ago | arab.news | Najia Houssari |Ephrem Kossaify

NEW YORK CITY: The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday expressed deep outrage over the killing of 15 medical and aid workers in Gaza on March 23, as he warned that “there is a high and increasing risk that atrocity crimes are being committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” Volker Turk called for an “independent, prompt and thorough” investigation into the deaths which, he said, raise “further concerns over the commission of war crimes by the Israeli military.” The...