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Hidaya, a 31-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is also displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP

The culmination of policy: Israel’s use of starvation in Gaza

What began 18 years ago is coming to a head today: the intentional, purposeful denial of food as a biological weapon that kills a population slowly, after first breaking its will

Hala Al-Naji 07 August 2025

Hunger, disease may soon trump Israel's kill count in Gaza

Fares Garabet 06 August 2025
Israeli soldiers inside a military aircraft flying over the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. Israeli Defence Forces / AFP

Countering the Israeli quest for regional domination

As Israel seeks to reshape the Middle East—militarily, politically, and economically—the Arab world must put forward an alternative vision anchored in the principles of the UN Charter

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy 28 July 2025
Israel's Ministry of Finance estimated that the state's recent war costs stood at $31bn by the end of 2024, and could rise to $70bn by the end of 2025. Sebastien Thibault

War is draining Israel’s economy… but the stock market is booming

Despite heavy losses and the soaring economic burden of war, Israel's defence and tech companies are making gains

Souraya Chahine 24 July 2025
Lina Jaradat

Gaza’s ‘death trap’ aid centres: a real-life Hunger Games

Israel's commandeering of aid distribution in Gaza forces starving Palestinians to run the gauntlet at centres with biometric monitoring systems, armed security, and life-or-death hazards

Hala Al-Naji 03 July 2025

Israel turns Gaza aid into a life-or-death proposition

Fares Garabet 02 July 2025
Iranian motorists drive past a billboard depicting an Israeli soldier receiving military supplies from the United States at Tehran's central Valiasr square on November 6, 2024. ATTA KENARE / AFP

Preventing the next Middle East disaster

Trump should continue turning the page toward a new Middle East and manage escalation with Iran carefully

Adham Z. Sahloul 12 June 2025
People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group that has circumvented the longstanding UN-led system in Gaza on June 8, 2025. Eyad BABA / AFP

How Israel is weaponising aid and armed gangs in Gaza

Israel's forced starvation campaign and the inexplicable routing of aid lorries through crowded areas compound an already dire humanitarian and security crisis. Critics say it's intentional.

Salem Al Rayyes 10 June 2025
 A protester holds a sign reading "There are no universities left in Gaza" amid the commencement ceremony on May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Libby O'Neill / AFP

Campus cacophony: Trump stamps on academic freedoms

Billions of dollars in federal funding have been withheld from universities where Gaza protests were staged, ostensibly for reasons of antisemitism. What will the impact be?

Khaled Yousri 01 June 2025

Omar El Akkad strips away the West’s moral failure over Gaza

Full of rage, the Canadian-Egyptian writer spares no one in his latest book, especially America's progressives, whose professed values should have them as riled as the author is over Israel's genocide

Antoine Jockey 31 May 2025
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Hidaya, a 31-year-old Palestinian mother, carries her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is also displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025. Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

The culmination of policy: Israel’s use of starvation in Gaza

07 August 2025

What began 18 years ago is coming to a head today: the intentional, purposeful denial of food as a biological weapon that kills a population slowly, after first breaking its will

Hala Al-Naji
UN Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA) Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher holds the
Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 report during a press conference in Geneva on December 3, 2024. Elodie le Maou / AFP
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Tom Fletcher: the senior UN man calling out Israeli 'cynicism'

03 August 2025

A former British diplomat now advising the UN Security Council has accused Israel of "making starvation a bargaining chip". Surprise, surprise, this did not go down well in Tel Aviv. Who is he?

Con Coughlin
Solar-powered lights on a mountain road in Lebanon.
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Powering the periphery: how renewables are reshaping rural development in the Arab world

07 August 2025

Beyond the flashy projects of the Gulf, a quieter contribution to the energy transition is underway across North Africa and the Levant

Jessica Obeid
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Could China gatecrash the US-Gulf AI wedding?

09 August 2025

America offers the technology and the know-how, while the Gulf brings the capital and the energy, but are the Gulf states putting all their AI eggs in the US basket?

Shirley Ze Yu

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