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Unemployment, poverty and a bleak outlook have recently led many Gazans to take their own life. These conditions are unsustainable and put the recent outbreak of war into context. Majalla

Outbreak of war sheds light on Gaza's dire conditions and rising suicide rate

Unemployment, poverty and a bleak outlook have recently led many Gazans to take their own life. These conditions are unsustainable and put the recent outbreak of war into context.

Houssam Marouf 08 October 2023
In this file photo taken on August 9, 2020, shows a noose and a gallows hanging from the Martyrs' Statue along with Lebanese national flags, at the Martyrs' Square in the center of Lebanon's capital Beirut. 
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Spike in suicides points to growing despair in Lebanon

Lebanon has been recently grappling with a surge in suicide cases, which can be attributed to the dire economic situation as well as Hezbollah's stifling grip over the country

Shadi Alaa Aldin 03 April 2023
Luisa Markides

The Next Epidemic: Suicide Among the Young

If desperation is a spectrum, suicide is at its gut-wrenching extreme. Thankfully, as with most extremes, it is rare. Yet a raft of official statistics emerging from health authorities in different…

Luisa Markides 29 July 2022
Luisa Markides

The Last Goodbye — Assisted Dying in Switzerland

Unlike any other country in regard to this issue, Switzerland has the longest history of the legal practice of non-physician assisted suicide. Assisted dying is legally allowed, as controversial as…

Luisa Markides 28 May 2022
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The US-Iran war is mainly good news for Russia

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Rising oil prices will boost the Kremlin's coffers as costs over Ukraine mount, but a total defeat of Iran could lead to the deployment of radar stations in the north, near Russia's border

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US public opinion is decisively shifting against Israel

20 March 2026

Until fairly recently, most Americans sided with Israel. These days, most side with the Palestinians. That will eventually influence US foreign policy.

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A Palestinian volunteer works to rescue and restore damaged books and manuscripts inside the library of the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City, on 26 February 2026.
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Cultural genocide: Israel's war on Palestinian memory

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By making Gaza unrecognisable, Israel aimed to sever an indigenous people from any physical or emotional connection to their homeland

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