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1 day ago | middleeasteye.net | Simon Hooper

Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors in the UK have said they feel a burden of responsibility to speak out against Israel’s continuing war in Gaza as Jewish communities mark Yom HaShoah - Israel’s day of remembrance for the six million Jews murdered by Nazi Germany.

2 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Sondos Asem

In this in-depth interview, Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of the US rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn), explains the organisation’s submission to the International Criminal Court in January, urging Prosecutor Karim Khan to investigate former US President Joe Biden and members of his administration for their alleged complicity in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. This episode was filmed on 10 March 2025.

2 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst

British-Egyptian prisoner and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has fallen ill after marking 50 days of a hunger strike, his family have reported. Abd el-Fattah, who launched a hunger strike on 1 March at Egypt's Wadi al-Natroun prison, is receiving treatment after he suffered multiple bouts of vomiting on Saturday. He had been subsisting on herbal tea, black coffee and rehydration salts since he heard that his mother Laila Soueif had been hospitalised in London.

2 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Katherine Hearst

At least a dozen detainees have died in Egyptian prisons this year amid deteriorating conditions, rights groups have reported. According to the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), 13 people have died in prison due to medical negligence, ill treatment and suicide in the first few months of 2025, while the Committee for Justice (CFJ) puts the number at 11.

5 days ago | middleeasteye.net | Sondos Asem

19 April 2025 11:01 BST ago What can more than 100 years of the international justice system tell us about its present and future? In this episode of Expert Witness, Professor William Schabas, world leading scholar of international criminal law and genocide, reflects on his decades of experience as an academic lawyer and genocide expert, and the challenges facing international law after Israel’s war on Gaza in 2023.