
Katherine Hearst
Journalist at Freelance
Articles
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2 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
Basem Farajallah speaks with his sister in Gaza every day. She is diabetic and surviving on scraps of bread. He has 80 family members still alive in Gaza - but 40 others have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023, including 25 who were wiped out in a single strike. Farajallah emphasised that he is not alone. He is the co-founder of the UK Gaza Community, a group of some 350 British Palestinians with relatives in Gaza.
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3 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
The Israeli authorities are deporting two international activists who were documenting settler violence against Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank. Swedish citizen Susanne Bjork and Irish citizen Deirdre Murphy were arrested on 31 May in the village of Khallet al-Daba, where they had been filming settler attacks against its Palestinian residents.
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6 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
Al Jazeera has reported that the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since dawn has reached 38. Of that figure, 27 people were killed in northern Gaza.
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6 days ago |
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
The family of disappeared Egyptian poet Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi have issued a plea to the Emirati government for his release, as he marks 145 days of solitary confinement at an unknown location in the country. Qaradawi was arrested in Lebanon in January, and extradited to the UAE over a video he posted to social media while visiting Syria, in which he expressed critical views of the Egyptian, Emirati and Saudi authorities.
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1 week ago |
middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst
The Israeli military has issued a statement on Telegram claiming it has no knowledge of the deadly attack at an aid distribution point in Rafah early on Sunday. Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians gathered at two aid distribution points run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Gaza City and Rafah, killing at least 35 people.
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