Mat Nashed

Journalist and Analyst at Freelance

Journalist, MENA at Al Jazeera English

Journalist for Al Jazeera. Covering Sudan and Israel-Palestine.

Articles

How Israel's 'plan' for Gaza could turbocharge ethnic cleansing

1 week ago | aljazeera.com | Mat Nashed |Maram Humaid

Israel's far-right government has approved a "plan" to carve up and ethnically cleanse Gaza, analysts told Al Jazeera. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the plan, couching it in claims that its goal is to dismantle Hamas and retrieve the 24 or so living captives taken from Israel on October 7, 2023.
ICJ hearing on Israel's obligation to allow aid to Palestine: Key takeaways

1 week ago | aljazeera.com | Mat Nashed

On May 2, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concluded public hearings into what Israel's obligations are regarding allowing United Nations agencies and other relief groups to work in the Palestinian territory it occupies. A panel of judges has heard oral arguments from 40 countries since Monday, including China, France, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia and the United Kingdom.
Why the Palestinian Authority's Abbas is under pressure to pick a successor

2 weeks ago | aljazeera.com | Mat Nashed

The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), under pressure to appoint a second-in-command to its ageing leader, Mahmoud Abbas, created a vice president position after meeting with senior officials on April 24. Abbas, who is also president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), promised during an emergency Arab summit in early March that the position would be created. Yet it remains unclear who will eventually fill the post.
Unpacking Israel's war on international humanitarian law

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Mat Nashed

On March 24, Israel struck a car in northern Gaza and killed Al Jazeera correspondent Hossam Shabat. The 23-year-old is one of countless civilians - men, women and children - Israel has killed since launching what legal scholars describe as a "genocidal" war on Gaza. Recommended Stories Israel often justifies its killings by claiming that the targets are people sympathetic or affiliated with Hamas or other armed factions. This was the justification given for killing Shabat.
Palestinian Bedouins say Israeli settlers terrorising them off their land

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Mat Nashed

When Israel began bombing Gaza on October 7, 2023, Fayez Atil sensed his community in the occupied West Bank would soon come under attack too. Atil is from the Palestinian village of Zanuta, a traditional herding community in the Jordan Valley. Recommended Stories Settlers from illegal Israeli settlements had harassed and attacked his village for years. Still, the violence escalated sharply after Israel launched what many describe as a "genocidal" war on Gaza.
Hungry, scared Darfur civilians fear RSF attack, plead for army help

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Mat Nashed

Civilians in Sudan's North Darfur's capital, el-Fasher, and surrounding towns are starving. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have imposed a siege on them for about a year, yet they managed to forestall an invasion thanks to the Joint Forces - an array of local armed factions backed by the army.
Is Sudan's war merging with South Sudanese conflicts?

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Mat Nashed

New alliances in Sudan's civil war risk sparking a regional conflict by drawing in neighbouring South Sudan, analysts tell Al Jazeera. The biggest development was an alliance in February between the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who established a government to rival Sudan's current de facto leadership.
The many ways Israeli settlers steal Palestinian homes

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Mat Nashed

On Monday, Ghassan Abdel Basset and his family left their home in the occupied West Bank to visit a relative. They were going to break their fast together during the holy month of Ramadan. Recommended Stories Later that evening, their neighbours informed them that Israeli settlers had invaded their home. Ghassan hurried back to confront the settlers, but the Israeli army intervened to block him and his family from getting back to their house.
Sudan's army retakes presidential palace in Khartoum, strikes blow to RSF

1 month ago | aljazeera.com | Mat Nashed

Sudan's army retakes the presidential palace in Khartoum, striking a blow to the Rapid Support Forces in a key symbolic victory. Sudan's army and its supporters are celebrating across the country after troops recaptured the presidential palace in the capital, Khartoum. Friday's victory is perhaps the army's most symbolic since launching a key counteroffensive against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in September last year.
Sudanese Starve as Soup Kitchens Close and Warring Parties Block Aid

2 months ago | rsn.org | Mat Nashed

The pause in USAID funding is exacerbating the hunger crisis in Sudan and compounding the challenge for relief workers. The United States’ decision to suspend foreign aid is exacerbating a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan, where millions risk dying from malnutrition-related illnesses.