FIFA delegates arrived in the Gaza Strip on Monday (5 January) to help rebuild the football stadiums that were damaged following last year’s Israel Gaza conflict. An estimated one million dollars (£655,652) is being provided by the world football governing body to help with the rebuilding project in the Palestinian[…]
At least 60 journalists around the world were killed in 2014 while on the job or because of their work, and 44 percent of them were targeted for murder, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. An “unusually high proportion,” or about one-fourth, of those killed were international journalists, though the overwhelming[…]
More than 30 humanitarian organisations launched an appeal on Monday for countries to take in around 180,000 refugees from the Syrian conflict. That figure would represent five percent of the projected refugee population by the end of 2015, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).[…]
With its collapsed health service, sick and poorly equipped security forces and broken economy, Ebola-hit Liberia finds itself on the brink of complete societal breakdown, experts warn. The already impoverished west African state was on the slow road to recovery after 14 years of ruinous civil war ended in 2003,[…]
Hamas has killed 17 Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel, a day after Israel killed three of the group’s top military commanders in an airstrike on a house in southern Gaza Strip, witnesses and a Hamas website said. A Gaza security official said the first batch involved 11 people who[…]
Israel has said rocket fire from Gaza has “made continuation of talks impossible,” trading blame with Palestinian negotiators over the collapse of the ceasefire. Spokesman Mark Regev responded to Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed’s charge that Israel had thwarted the talks that broke down on Tuesday after Israel recalled its negotiators[…]
Israeli warplanes kept up a punishing campaign of air strikes over Gaza, killing five Palestinians on Saturday as rebels fired rockets into Israel and ceasefire talks in Cairo stalled. The Palestinian interior ministry said Israeli jets launched 21 strikes after midnight, destroying three mosques, one in the Zeitoun area, one[…]
Social media activism has grown exponentially in recent years and the current conflict in Gaza has proven just how effective online networks are in pushing out vital information. While not everyone knows the “ins and outs” of social media, the past month has seen an upsurge in older people getting[…]
During the nearly month long crisis in Gaza, both Palestinian and Israeli sympathises have criticised a supposed media bias against their respective sides of the conflict. Israeli’s have continuously lambasted Middle Eastern media for its emphasis on the civilian death toll in Gaza, whilst Palestinian supporters have criticised a supposed[…]
OPINION by Zubeida Jaffer The crisis in the Gaza has its roots in the events of the two world wars. At the end of the First World War, Lord Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary, drafted a declaration that recognized the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. At the[…]
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