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It's scorching hot in the West Bank & Palestinians don't have enough water.
Taps run dry in cities. Farmers can't dig wells.
Jewish settlements are paradise in contrast. Rights groups say water access helps Israel expand control over disputed land.
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'It's a curse to be a parent in Gaza'
The war has killed 2,000 Palestinians under 12
Newborn twins. A girl obsessed w classic Iraqi poetry. A Christian child who felt safe in his church. An aspiring war correspondent
Here's a look at a few of the killed
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In a Ramallah cafe, some cheered as they watched South Africa’s justice minister expound on the decades-long "systematic oppression" of Palestinians
Others wept
Palestinians that felt forgotten by world powers hailed the hearing as a watershed moment
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Gaza's medics trek by foot to bombed houses b/c streets are ravaged
They dig with bare hands b/c they don't have machinery
Cut off from internet, they can't speak to loved ones
Israeli strikes have killed 23 medics so far, incl 7 Monday at their HQ
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Israel has rounded up hundreds of Palestinians across northern Gaza
Released detainees say troops separated families, forced men to strip to their underwear then trucked them to a detention camp on the beach
They spent hours or days cold, hungry, thirsty
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Situation in Gaza under siege is extreme
Israel cut off its water supply to Gaza
Now nothing comes out of taps
It’s hard to find bottled water in stores
People are drinking dirty water and getting sick
Many say they urinate once a day or every 2 days
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Israel quietly armed Azerbaijan before it recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh.
Military cargo flights flew between Israeli & Azerbaijani airbases, upsetting Armenian diplomats.
“It's a major concern that Israeli weapons have been firing at our people."
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The only thing worse than the screams of a patient undergoing surgery without enough anesthesia are the terror-stricken faces of those awaiting their turn, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon in Gaza tells me
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EXPLAINER: Who's the Swedish doctor facing execution in Iran? (from
@AP
)
Vida Mehrannia is trying to save her husband’s life. Iran is scheduled to put him to death within nine days.
“It’s a nightmare,” she said. “They want to sacrifice my husband.”
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A story about high fuel prices in the UAE unleashed a crisis at state-linked newspaper in Dubai.
Within days, top editors were interrogated. Within weeks, dozens of employees were fired and the print paper declared dissolved.
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There's a whole world of Hamas tunnels beneath Gaza
What's it like to fight there?
Experts say: Claustrophobic. Terrifying. Challenging.
“I usually say it’s like walking down the street waiting to get punched in the face"
W/the great
@jongambrellAP
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Israel's demand that 1 million Palestinians in Gaza flee south immediately has paralyzed families
Should they risk their lives & flee? Or risk their lives & stay?
Saeb al-Jarz, 27, doesn't know.
"I just really, really want to live," he told me
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Food-delivery workers protesting meager pay and inadequate protections have walked off the job across Dubai, marking the second strike in as many weeks in an emirate that outlaws dissent.
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Over a dozen unmarried women huddled in a jail cell south of Dubai last year, locked up for the crime of giving birth, when a guard entered and declared them free.
One year later, many remain trapped in limbo as they fight for birth certificates.
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The West Bank has become its own kind of battlefield
With guns abundant & settlers in reserves, attacks have surged
Palestinians are terrified. Confined to their homes, banned from roads, blocked from their olive groves
"It's like I'm in a prison"
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Women who have grown politically active through Yemen's grinding war are increasingly targeted for torture, abuse by rebel Houthis. I spoke to several former detainees held in secret prisons around the capital who fled. Hundreds more remain in detention.
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Desperation in Gaza:
The war has eroded a close-knit society
Fistfights over bread. Knife attacks over water. Assaults on doctors who can't treat patients
And in rare scenes of dissent: Residents beat up police & brazenly challenge Hamas authority
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"Home demolitions intentionally harm innocent people in hopes they deter other people from committing attacks" - Jessica Montell, director of
@HaMokedRights
As far-right Israel pushes demolitions, family home of 13yr-old accused in attack to be blown up
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What is Gaza's Health Ministry?
Is it run by Hamas?
Who works there?
Should we trust it?
Questions have mounted as Gaza's death toll surges over 7,000
Here's my look at the 1 official source accounting for Palestinian casualties from the war
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just days after biden's jaunt to middle east, putin makes his own.
some political theater but big topics for erdogan and putin to discuss in tehran -
syria offensive, blocked grain
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At Al-Dhafra, U.S. troops took shelter in bunkers during the attack.
“U.S. military forces successfully reacted to multiple inbound threats,” the Air Force said. Videos on social media suggested outgoing interceptor fire came from the base.
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Saudi Arabia opened an investigation after videos purportedly showed security forces beating women at an orphanage in the kingdom’s southwest.
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For all Palestinian parents, Marwan Tamimi said, there comes a moment they realize they’re powerless to protect their children
Last week's prisoner releases highlighted a grim rite of passage for West Bank boys: Israeli jail
Here's the story of 1 family
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So far the policies of Israeli Finance Minister Betzalel Smotrich — now in charge of civilian life in the West Bank — have compounded Palestinian misery, emboldened violent settlers & unleashed turmoil within the military establishment, experts say.
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Kuwait with its rowdy parliament has always stood out in the autocratic region.
The emir now has publicly granted amnesty to prominent dissidents exiled after the Arab Spring.
As they return, they find the issues that drove them to protest still fester.
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Even though the houseboats are gone, like so many aspects of the old city and the ways of life it contained, the dream of a life spent in them on the Nile will continue to exist — at least on the page.
By
@yasminerashidi
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People in Gaza say this war has stolen not only families and friends but also Islamic rituals of death & mourning.
Prayers are quick. Bodies buried en masse.
The 1 solace was condolences via FB & WhatsApp.
With internet down, now that's gone, too
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If hospitals are off-limits in war, why are Gaza's in the crossfire?
As always here, it's a war of narratives
Israel says Hamas operates under hospitals & uses bloodshed for PR
Palestinians say Israel targets & recklessly harms civilians, a war crime
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Palestinians who remain in northern Gaza say they're trapped in hell as Israel pushes ahead w ground invasion
The roads south are too dangerous. Evacuees killed on the highways.
“Israeli forces have cut Gaza into 2 parts,” says
@YousefHammash
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A defrocked priest who fled to California. A patriarch barricaded in a convent. A mysterious investor.
In Jerusalem's contested Old City, the Armenian community searches for answers about a secretive land lease that has triggered fears of displacement
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“I want to show the world that our disaster and experience might be transferred to another country.”
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@ajnaddaff
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A look at the shrouded life & grim death of a Palestinian suspected of spying for Israel in Nablus.
The first such killing in the West Bank since the 2nd intifada signals a society under strain…
(from
@AP
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“The politicians who rule us deserve to be burned, they are the reason why we are here,” Hoda said. “They eat with spoons of gold while we search for a piece of bread to eat from the floor.”
@lujainjo
In the dark streets of Beirut, sometimes the only light that shines is from headlamps worn by scavengers. Mired in one of the world's worst financial crises in modern history, even trash has become a commodity fought over in Lebanon. By
@lujainjo
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“I would say we are flying in a heavily clouded sky,” IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said of his agency’s ability to perform its monitoring function in Iran.
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This summer 3 Palestinian hamlets were entirely emptied. Residents who fled blame surging settler attacks
The displacement of nearly 500 people is part of a trend that could change the map of the West Bank
important story by
@FrankelJulia
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"It really makes us feel like second-class citizens."
Foreign nationals trapped in Gaza feel abandoned by governments that scrambled to evacuate their citizens from Israel.
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“1948 is immediately brought to mind when Palestinians in Gaza are told to flee, it’s immediately brought to mind when you see those images,” said Rashid Khalidi, professor of Arab studies at Columbia University.
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Cover bands from the Philippines, long central to the live-music scene in Dubai, are being squeezed as the pandemic stills the city's famed nightlife. With photos by
@KamranJebreili
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Dr. Fadhil Naim was resting between surgeries when he heard a crash
Then the wounded began streaming into the operating ward, screaming for help
“They were alive, and they died in our arms" he said
On the Al-Ahli Hospital tragedy, with
@samya_kullab
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the latest case of a woman's gruesome murder by a man seemingly impervious to the consequences gains traction in Kuwait, with thousands tweeting the victim's name #فرح_حمزه_اكبر
A Kuwaiti woman & lawyer sued a man bc he was harassing her sister trying to force her into marriage, threatening to kill her. He was arrested & released on bail. Once free, he murdered the woman, stabbed her dozens of times & left her body outside a hospital. #جريمه_صباح_السالم
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The prosecutor in the case against 26 Saudis charged in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Khashoggi made a surprise request that their trial in absentia be suspended & the case be transferred to Saudi Arabia
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Just before the EU envoy met Iran’s nuclear negotiator in Tehran Wed in a last-ditch attempt to save the nuclear deal, Iran announced it had detained 2 Europeans.
Mora looks stern as he shakes hands awkwardly w/ Bagheri Kani, who beams & waves
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In other news from the UAE…
Party-hard Dubai ponders new workweek debate: When's brunch? (from
@AP
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Security footage from a West Bank village shows a young man suddenly being shot and dropping to the ground
2 others rushing to his aid are hit, killing a 17 yr old
The video obtained by AP shows the shooting appears to be unprovoked
by
@FrankelJulia
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“On social media, the world has cheered Ukrainians as they stockpile Molotov cocktails and take up arms against an occupying army. When Palestinians and Iraqis do the same thing, they are branded terrorists and legitimate targets.“
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The IAEA said it was unable to verify the exact size of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium due to limits Tehran imposed on U.N. inspectors & the removal of the agency’s monitoring equipment
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The last Gaza war shined a light on what many in Mideast long saw as widespread censorship of Arabic content on FB.
#alaqsa
banned, Palestinian accounts blocked,etc.
Now leaked docs show FB knew it had an Arabic problem - & bigger language problem - but did little about it
An examination of internal company documents shows failure to address systemic problems monitoring posts in Arabic and other languages.
#TheFacebookPapers
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"Iran’s historic enmity with Russia has combined with a wider feeling among some that backing Moscow betrays the Islamic Republic’s often-stated message that it stands against the world’s major powers."
By
@ncarrimi
&
@jongambrellAP
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The IAEA said Iran now intends to use uranium enriched up to 20% in making fuel for its Tehran Research Reactor and that “in doing so, as part of a multi-stage process,” it will also produce uranium metal enriched up to 20%.
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The world’s fair in Dubai, a tech-saturated site teeming with talking robots and solar canopies, sought to be the future.
Now, it’s history.
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The pandemic has sent the price of oil crashing to all-time lows and pushed Kuwait toward a reckoning with its longtime largesse, just as a parliamentary election approaches in December
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A bag of flour in Gaza is now the rarest luxury, costs over $120...
"We are searching for water and anything that we can chew in the 21st century," said Khaled
His 7-year-old daughter cheered, he said, when he brought home a tomato
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Both the theocracy and the Revolutionary Guard have financial and political incentive to continue the status quo. And with no other outlets, mass protests by the Iranian public seem likely to continue.
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@jongambrellAP
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“The beauty of having this argument a second time is that we actually have the facts from the first time — the real-world experience both that the policy was good and that the politics didn’t hurt anybody who supported it,” Mr. Ben-Ami said.
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Critics see another step toward a dystopian reality in which Israel fine-tunes its open-ended occupation of the Palestinians while keeping its soldiers out of harm’s way.
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“These kinds of prisoner exchanges are often the only hope that families have ... “It’s what they live for, it’s like a miracle from God.”
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An EU mission in Gaza once represented hope. Today, it is a symbol of a sputtering Western vision (from
@AP
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The truce will also allow for shipments of fuel to arrive in the Yemen’s key port city of Hodeida and for passenger flights to resume from the airport in the capital, Sanaa.
UN says Yemen's warring parties agree to 2-month truce (from
@AP
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“Globally, chickpea prices may rise by 15 to 20 percent — the same value as the fall of the supply."
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The transfer comes as Kylie Moore-Gilbert was freed from Iran in exchange for three Iranians bearing striking resemblance to those convicted in the botched 2012 Bangkok bombing
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“This war will end someday when two leaders agree to shake hands,” he said. “But our sorrow, our pain, will never heal.”
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a great opportunity for recent grads to help
@AP
cover rapidly changing Gulf states & Iran in turmoil from Dubai
#journojobs
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A grim milestone in the war. 100 days.
In those days a Gaza doctor says he lost dozens of colleagues, friends
His hometown has transformed into a giant displacement camp
People have changed too. Paler, thinner, jumpier.
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The high cost of the deal raised eyebrows when compared with similar purchases of the combat planes across the Middle East
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Some residents in the UAE who published & shared video of the interception of the Houthi missile this week - explosion in sky over Abu Dhabi - were called in for questioning.
Unclear if journalists sharing such footage would face similar penalties.
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New richly informative newsletter by
@SCastelier
rounding up gulf news
This week in
@AlMonitor
Gulf newsletter: Gulf states, chess masters of a multipolar world - Expert Voice:
@CamilleLons
, Kuwait's political wrangling, ESG investments, Uber fares in Saudi, fishing, soccer & ski slopes Sign up here ⬇️
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Scores of Israelis, seeking revelry & relief from monthslong virus restrictions and undeterred by warnings about possible Iranian attacks in the region, have celebrated weddings, bar mitzvahs & Hanukkah with large gatherings banned back home
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Inflation hits Iranians where it hurts most -- the price of milk, yogurt and eggs is up 80% compared to a year ago. The cost of vegetables & meat by 70%. Cheapest basics like bread and rice by more than 50%.
By
@moenasiri
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Tehran’s contemporary art museum has issued an apology and temporarily closed after footage of insects scuttling across world-famous work spread widely on social media.
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Some Neom employees & Saudi officials say they’re skeptical the plans are feasible. The kingdom already has plowed more than $1 billion into the project ... cash that some Saudi officials say they believe could have been put to better use elsewhere.
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good thing
@jongambrellAP
listens to CIA podcasts
The CIA has officially described for the first time that the 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic. The putsch overthrew Iran's prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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The EU’s chief negotiator disappointed by outcome of short round of Iran nuke talks in Doha
“Unfortunately, not yet the progress the EU team as coordinator had hoped-for."
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Satellite photos reveal new demolition along a 1-kilometer-deep path on Gaza's border with Israel
The destruction suggests Israeli intentions to carve out a buffer zone there
analysis by
@jongambrellAP
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He drove night shifts in the emirate of Sharjah. But that bright Monday morning, a fellow driver in the Mussafah district went on leave. Hardeep was sent to replace him. His family never spoke to him again.
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how did we go from ferrante being the biggest global literary mystery to this casual guardian column?? ‘Yes, I’m Italian – but I’m not loud, I don’t gesticulate and I’m not good with pizza’
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At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank this year as Israeli forces have carried out nightly raids in cities, towns and villages, making it the deadliest in the occupied territory since 2016.
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Ahlam hasn’t sent her children back to their classrooms...“Security is more important than education,” she said.
great ready by
@cairo_claire1
on the undeclared war zone that is Jenin refugee camp
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While the previous attacks on shipping targeted only commercial vessels and caused cosmetic damage above the waves, Tuesday’s blast apparently blew through the hull of the Saviz below its waterline. From
@jongambrellAP
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Powerful story by
@sammymagdy
: 1 year after Sudan's military dispersed a sit-in with brutal force, rape victims haven't seen justice. One woman says she expects nothing from the new gov't that has promised everything. "It is God who will avenge me."
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"Her drawings, mostly black and white portraits of relatives, some killed in previous rounds of fighting in Gaza, can be seen in the shattered bedroom where she died."
By
@faresakram
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Egypt's state-run daily acknowledges country's dire shortage of oxygen cylinders as cases surge, aftr widely circulated reports of virus patients' deaths due to lack of oxygen
Egypt struggles with oxygen tank shortage amid second wave of COVID-19
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An assailant stabbed three clerics at the most revered Shiite site in Iran on Tuesday
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Shocking unrest erupted in Jenin after Israel’s big July raid.
Palestinians shot at their own security forces. Even burned down a police station.
It was turning point, said Palestinian police.Their grip had slipped.
Now they’re trying to regain control
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