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1 month ago | 
barrons.com | Laure AL KHOURY |Nader Durgham
Donald Trump's decision to lift US sanctions on Syria signals a major shift in the war-battered country's efforts to rebuild, offering hope of recovery but leaving significant obstacles in place. In Riyadh during a Middle East tour, the US president said he "will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness".
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2 months ago | 
noonpost.com | Nader Durgham
ترجمة وتحرير: نون بوستفرضت الحرب الإسرائيلية على لبنان العام الماضي واقعًا صعبًا على حزب الله. تلقى الحزب ضربات موجعة نتيجة القصف المكثف، والتوغّل البري، والاغتيالات التي استهدفت عددًا كبيرًا من قياداته البارزة، وفي مقدّمتهم زعيمه حسن نصر الله، ما جعله يواجه ضغوطًا داخلية ودولية متصاعدة لنزع سلاحه بشكل كامل.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Nader Durgham
The Tunisian government has been increasingly using arbitrary arrests to suppress dissent, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has found. The organisation documented 22 cases where people were detained on what it called abusive charges, including terrorism, in connection with their public statements or political activities. At least 14 of the detainees could face capital punishment if convicted.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Nader Durgham |Paul Khalifeh
Last year’s Israeli war on Lebanon has left Hezbollah in a precarious position. Weakened by a relentless bombing campaign, a ground invasion and targeted strikes that killed much of its senior leadership - including its influential leader Hassan Nasrallah - the group has been facing mounting internal and international pressure to fully disarm.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months ago | 
middleeasteye.net | Nader Durgham
The Israeli army struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs before dawn on Tuesday, killing at least four people, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The strike came without a warning at around 3:30am during the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Israel’s military said it targeted Hassan Bdeir, a Hezbollah member accused of coordinating attacks on Israel with Hamas.
