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Jun 24, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Charlotte Wiedemann |Karim Gawhary |Andrea Backhaus
Teenagers across the Gaza Strip should have been taking their final exams this month, a last hurdle before university and lifelong dreams, but the war in the Palestinian territory has crushed those hopes. According to the education ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, 85 percent of educational facilities in the territory are out of service because of the war.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Karim Gawhary |Birgit Svensson |Stefan Buchen
Jordan hosts a summit on Tuesday on the urgent humanitarian response for Palestinians enduring more than eight months of devastating war in Gaza, where the United Nations has warned of looming famine. With much of the territory's food, water and energy cut off, the vast majority of Gazans rely on sporadic aid deliveries by land, sea and air.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Andrea Backhaus |Karim Gawhary |Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Stefan Buchen
One family's flight from Gaza · 05.06.2024 Bombs, destruction, hunger: the situation of the people in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic. Those who can afford to flee to neighbouring Egypt. Mohamed Isbitah managed to do just that. He speaks to Qantara.de about his dramatic escape https://qantara.de/en/node/44016 Print It's been almost eight months since Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel, in which more than 1,000 people were killed.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Kristin Helberg |Hans Dembowski |Aref Hajjaj |Karim Gawhary
Slovenia has joined the list of European nations that recognise Palestinian statehood. Slovenia's main legislative chamber, the National Assembly, voted in support of the move in a unanimous 52-0 vote on 4 June, STA news agency reported. The centre-right opposition boycotted the vote. Earlier in the day, the opposition had tabled a motion for a national referendum on the recognition of Palestine. It was then withdrawn, before a second motion was rejected by parliament.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Karim Gawhary |Inge Günther |Tania Krämer
Biden's plan for a Middle East ceasefire · 05.06.2024 U.S. President Biden's plan to end the war in Gaza ignores important questions. As long as it is not clear who will control the Gaza Strip once the war is over, there will be no lasting solution. An analysis https://qantara.de/en/node/44014 Print Where is the exit and, most importantly, how do we get there? Right now, this is the most virulent of the questions surrounding the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
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May 29, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Dunja Ramadan |Karim Gawhary |Birgit Svensson
The emir of Qatar is looking to invest in energy and high-tech in Cyprus – projects seen as having strong economic potential, a Cypriot official said on Tuesday. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who visited the east Mediterranean island nation on Tuesday for the first time, is also interested in investing in Cypriot ports and banking institutions, the official said.
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May 22, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Hans Dembowski |Karim Gawhary |Irene Anastassopoulou
Palestinian statehood · 22.05.2024 Whether or not to recognise a Palestinian state is a decades-old debate. Advocates say the move would have legal and symbolic power, but critics argue it would not change the situation on the ground https://qantara.de/en/node/43963 Print Recently, calls for the Western world to recognise a Palestinian state in its own right have been getting louder.
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May 8, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Karim Gawhary |Birgit Svensson |Karim El-Gawhary |Karim el-Gawhary |Stefan Buchen
Children in Gaza · 08.05.2024 Children in the Gaza Strip have not been to school since the start of the war. Israel is systematically destroying the Palestinian education system, UN representatives warn https://qantara.de/en/node/43903 Print The two friends Muhammad and Abed wander through their old school in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip – or rather, what is left of it. The schoolyard is littered with building debris.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Elisa Rheinheimer |Johannes Sadek |Karim Gawhary
A Palestinian businessman displaced by the war in Gaza is bringing a taste of home for fellow refugees with a shawarma restaurant he has opened in Cairo. "The Restaurant of Rimal Neighbourhood" offers shawarma, a Middle Eastern dish of thinly-sliced meat, and other Palestinian and Arab dishes. "The name comes to eternalise Rimal, my neighbourhood, and to eternalise my homeland too," said Basem Abu Al-Awn. "It is also to replace the restaurant I once had in Gaza.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
qantara.de | Kristin Helberg |Karim Gawhary |Emad M. Hassan
Rockets were fired late on Sunday from northern Iraq at a military base in Syria housing a U.S.-led coalition, according to Iraqi security forces. In response, the Iraqi forces launched a major search operation in northern Nineveh province and found the vehicle used in the attack, they said in a statement. It is the first major attack against the coalition forces in several weeks.
