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Every day, children in the West Bank run the gauntlet of Israeli roadblocks, checkpoints and settler attacks on their way to school. Since Israel launched a major operation in the West Bank in January, the trip has become even more perilous. Thousands of troops are sweeping through refugee camps and cities and demolishing houses and infrastructure, including roads children use to get to school.

Feb 9, 2025 | nst.com.my | Nazih Osseiran - |Nazih Osseiran

When a ceasefire began in Gaza last month, Palestinian activist Ahmad Kilani hoped the pause in fighting would also bring a return to peace in his hometown of Yabad in the occupied West Bank. But his joy turned to fear when just two days later on Jan 21, large columns of Israeli army vehicles backed by helicopters and drones stormed the nearby Jenin refu-gee camp at the start of a major crackdown in the West Bank.

Jan 13, 2025 | nst.com.my | Nazih Osseiran - |Nazih Osseiran

BEHIND his desk in a bright marble-floored shop in the heart of the Syrian capital, Saeed has a stack of envelopes he used to stuff with cash whenever a government official stopped by. Now that former president Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, Saeed hopes he will have no more use for them.

Dec 4, 2024 | nst.com.my | Nazih Osseiran |Nazih Osseiran -

AS bombs rained down on Beirut's southern suburbs, Ali Hussaini faced a heart-wrenching challenge: how to explain what was happening to his two partially deaf daughters. "They would ask me what is going on? Why are we running away?" Hussaini said. "When the bombs hit, I would try to move them away from the sound, but when they saw their siblings who can hear run towards us... they would be puzzled," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.