Nader Durgham

2 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Ahmed Dremly |Nader Durgham

Malak Yahya was reading a book at home when the massive Israeli bombing of Gaza City's Shujaiya neighbourhood took place on Wednesday. “The sound was frightening, the entire house shook, and the window fell on me,” she told Middle East Eye. She quickly went down to pick up her two younger brothers, who were outside when the strikes hit, as she was worried the Israeli army would attack again.

2 weeks ago | gijn.org | Nader Durgham

Reporting on Yemen has long been one of the most difficult and important tasks for investigative journalism. The years of conflict and political turmoil make it challenging but crucial to find accurate information and to properly represent its people.

2 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Nader Durgham

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowed on Monday that he will continue the total blockade of aid entering the Gaza Strip. “Not even a grain of wheat will enter Gaza,” he said, speaking at Israeli outlet Yedioth Ahronoth’s People of Israel Conference. On 2 March, weeks before breaking the ceasefire in Gaza, Israel shut down all the Palestinian enclave’s border crossings, halting the flow of much-needed humanitarian aid and further exacerbating the territory’s crises.

2 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Nader Durgham

Cities, towns and refugee camps across the occupied West Bank went on strike on Monday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s relentless war on the enclave. Shops, businesses, schools, private and public institutions have been shut down, with streets completely emptied out. "I walked through the city today and couldn't find a single place that was open," Fadi Saadi, a shopkeeper in Bethlehem, told AFP.

2 weeks ago | middleeasteye.net | Nader Durgham

The first Palestinian child to die under Israeli detention was starved to death, an autopsy indicates. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died at the end of March from what were likely signs of “starvation, dehydration from colitis-induced diarrhea, and infectious complications all compounded by prolonged malnutrition and denial of life saving medical intervention”, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) has reported.