The challenges in containing a looming polio outbreak in Gaza
Children’s lives in Gaza are riddled with uncertainty. They don’t know when the next bomb will fall, where their next meal will come from or even if their families and friends are still alive. Now, an...
23 Aug 202422min
How Israeli prisons became 'a network of torture camps'
In recent weeks, human rights organisations and media investigations have documented the worsening conditions in Israeli prisons over the past 10 months. They reveal beatings and other forms of brutal...
16 Aug 202419min
France’s racial gap between the Olympics and reality
Olympic fanfare has swept across Paris in recent weeks, but there is an elephant in the room that’s difficult to ignore – the glaring disparity between France hosting one of the most multicultural eve...
10 Aug 202424min
The weight of Israel and Hezbollah’s warfare on life in Lebanon
On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier in the skies over Lebanon, a stunt timed to coincide with Hassan Nasrallah’s speech amid a series of threats by Hezbollah towards Israel and vice ...
8 Aug 202422min
What happens next after the Hamas and Hezbollah assassinations?
The anxiety in the Middle East has been palpable since Tuesday night. The killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran happened only hours after Israel struck a south Beirut suburb, clai...
1 Aug 202422min
Israel's first attack on Yemen – what happens next?
Residents in the Yemeni city of Hodeidah woke up last Sunday to plumes of black smoke filling the skies. Israel had just struck the port, a main artery for the city, killing nine people and injuring m...
26 Juli 202423min
How Gazans cope with constant uprooting when 'nowhere is safe'
In the first weeks of July, the Israeli army ordered about 80,000 residents of Gaza city, in the north of the strip, to evacuate towards the south. At the same time, residents in large areas of Khan Y...
19 Juli 202419min
What will ties between Assad and Erdogan mean for Syrian refugees?
Hundreds of rioters were arrested at the start of July after angry mobs in Turkey vandalised cars and shops belonging to Syrian refugees. Fuelled by reports that a Syrian man had assaulted a young gir...
12 Juli 202420min
