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The Lebanese Sunni military group the Al-Fajr Forces has reemerged in recent months after a long hiatus, joining the fight against Israel alongside Hezbollah on the Israel-Lebanon border. The Al-Fajr Forces - established in 1982 - are the military wing of Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese Sunni Muslim organisation also known as the "Islamic Group in Lebanon". Jamaa Islamiya's involvement in the border clashes has raised questions about the revival of the Al-Fajr Forces and whether they will continue to have a role once Israel's war on Gaza ends. "Jamaa Islamiya's participation has been mixed in Leban...
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Tulkarem, occupied West Bank \- Since the start of the war on Gaza, Israel has ramped up attacks on refugee camps in the occupied West Bank, with Nur Shams in Tulkarem experiencing the lion’s share of the violence. “Israel has executed 22 military operations in the camp since the war began, the first of which was on October 19. This number is notably high when compared to preceding months,” Sulaiman Al-Zuhairi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Khadouri University in Tulkarem and a researcher on Palestinian refugee camps, told The New Arab. The surge in attacks on this particular camp is pa...
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The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have encircled and besieged El Fasher in North Darfur in recent weeks, but fears of an all-out assault on the city have not yet materialised. El Fasher remains the last capital city in Darfur's five states where the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) maintain a garrison following their 13-month-long war against the RSF. A defeat for the SAF and former Darfur rebel groups fighting alongside it would formalise the loss of the army's control over approximately one-third of the nation's territory. Residents of the city are living in a state of heightened fear as armed clash...
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When casually swiping on dating apps in Israel, users are frequently inundated with images of soldiers in Gaza. “It's like every third profile at least,” Karmen, who only wanted her first name used, told The New Arab. Karmen is now collecting screenshots of soldiers’ dating profiles and shared some of the pictures with TNA. The images range from soldiers smiling in uniform and brandishing rifles in front of sunsets to more sadistic content like soldiers snapping selfies next to rubble. Israelis have long showcased their military service on dating apps, but the scale and severity of the photos ...
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Violent scenes from Columbia University, UCLA, and dozens of other US campuses have made global headlines over the past few weeks, with 52 universities across the US seeing pro-Palestine action and encampments. Much of the spotlight has been focused on Columbia University, where a student protest and encampment has been ongoing for nearly two weeks, demanding that the university divest from companies with ties to Israel amidst an ongoing war on Gaza that has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians. “What we’re seeing is a historic student uprising in the US with very few parallels or precedent,” ...
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On 30 March, Yemen's Houthi-led de facto government in Sana’a minted a new100-riyal coin. The unprecedented move came under the pretext of finding a solution to the growing problem of damaged banknotes. Yemeni analysts, however, saw it as yet another step the Iran-backed militia group has taken in an alternative, independent economy it has created, which further threatens ‘peace and stability’ in the war-torn nation. In response to what itdescribed as a “grave escalation,” the Internationally Recognised Government (IRG) in Aden warned citizens not to use the “counterfeit” currency, and in Apri...
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In February, residents of Belyounech in northern Morocco awoke to the sound of bulldozers entering their village accompanied by security forces. Over a dozen homes and villas in the coastal community - home to 5,000 people - were subsequently destroyed. Three days prior, residents had received evacuation notices saying their properties were illegally occupying “public maritime space”. Reportedly part of a campaign by the state to recover, and develop, coastal areas, demolitions like these have been reported across Morocco since December, including in the fishing village of Imsouane and the isl...
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The US and UK’s complicity in torture and detention practices has once again come under the spotlight amid revelations of the systematic abuses and preventable deaths of detainees in northeast Syria. Following the territorial defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Syria a harrowing system of arbitrary and indefinite detention has emerged, overseen by the region's autonomous authorities, notably the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), key partners of the US-led coalition against IS. According to Amnesty International, “the US government has played a central role in the creation and maintenance of this...
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Earlier this year, several Western countries froze their funding to UNRWA after Israel accused 12 of its employees of participating in the 7 October attacks. The accusations sparked international uproar and reignited a longstanding campaign within Israel to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem. While attempts to “evict” UNRWA’s Jerusalem offices are not new, the campaign is now bolstered at both the governmental and grassroots levels. Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, is currently debating a bill to ban UNRWA from operating in occupied East Jerusalem. It passed its first preliminary reading in February ...
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'Undo the damage, before it’s too late'. This is the tagline of a controversial new ad campaign underway in Lebanon, fuelling a surge in violence targeting Syrian refugees. New billboards began popping up nationwide in March, with TV spots airing on MTV, carrying a rallying call that “the Syrian displaced issue needs immediate action”. Leaning heavily on xenophobic messaging, the campaign is further instigating a generalised climate of hostility towards refugees, a climate that has led to an increase in violent attacks that have erupted in recent weeks following the death of prominent Christia...
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