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Timeline: Crisis in Saudi
28 December 2020: Saudi invited Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to join the GCC Summit in January in what analysts believe is sign that the Gulf crisis may be coming to an end 26 April 2020: Saudi Arabia announces it will abolish the death penalty for those who committed crimes while still...
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Timeline: Israel's attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque
09 March 2025: Israeli occupation forces storm the Qibli Prayer Hall at Al-Aqsa Mosque and seize the loudspeakers, local sources say 21 Oct 2024: 1,780 settlers defiled Al-Aqsa Mosque in different groups under police escort to mark the fifth day of the Jewish festival of Sukkot. 22 Sept 2024: The Israeli occupation regime has...
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‘International solidarity was instrumental in bringing freedom to South Africa, as it will be in freeing Palestine’
MEMO interviews the director of 'Fire on the Marmara', a documentary film exploring the tragedy of the Mavi Marmara ...
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Timeline: Arab rift with Qatar
16 May 2023: Bahrain and Qatar announced that direct flights will operate between the two countries from 25 May 12 April 2023: Qatar and Bahrain agree to restore their diplomatic relations, reopen embassies 24 August 2021: Egypt receives credentials of first Qatari envoy since 2017 21 March 2021: Qatar and Mauritania meet for the first...
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Timeline: Israel’s anti-Palestinian laws since 1948
2006-Present 30 Dec 2024: Israeli authorities announce a new measure to designate any land in Jerusalem which they deem to be ‘without verified ownership’ as ‘absentee property’, under the so-called Absentee Property Law. This move not only seizes ownership from Palestinian residents, but also bars them from obtaining building permits on...
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Timeline: International attempts to boycott BDS
On 9 July 2005 171 Palestinian civil society groups adopted a call to boycott, divest and sanction Israel for its violations of international law. The BDS movement calls for Israel to fully withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories dismantle the illegal Separation Wall in the West Bank...
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From war to war; fleeing from Syria to Gaza
“Before the war, Syria was an ‘open’ country. We could move around and live. I never travelled internationally but we knew that we could visit neighbouring countries like Lebanon or Jordan. Psychologically, knowing that you can move and travel is totally different to being here in Gaza. Now we...
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MEMO Comment: We should feel sorry for Yiftah Curiel; he has an impossible job
Yiftah Curiel recently penned an article where he named Middle East Monitor as one of “two UK websites” upon which “Hamas relies”...
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Scars and laughter along Gaza's Beaches
With electricity supplies in Gaza restricted to between 2-8 hours a day in most areas, the coast's cool breeze offers a place to escape the stifling summer heat in cramped apartments...
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Creating developmental spaces for children in Deir al-Balah
Although a coastal city, Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip is known as an agricultural area. Today, with all export opportunities shut down and borders closed, the agricultural industry has suffered hugely. Deir al-Balah now has some of the highest unemployment levels and poverty rates in all of...
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Soumaya Ghannoushi: Ennahda's new approach is about rationalisation of politics, not secularism
Middle East Monitor spoke to Soumaya Ghannoushi, columnist and daughter of Rached Ghannouchi, Tunisia’s Ennahda party leader, about the group’s recent decision to separate politics from religion. MEMO: Ennahda’s announcement at its tenth party congress that it would be separating the political from the religious spheres has generated much debate. What were...
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Russia seeks naval base in Egypt
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has revealed that his country is seeking to establish a naval base in Egypt. He stressed how important this is to Russia but denied that it would be incompatible with the existing American presence in the country. Lavrov’s remarks came in a lengthy interview with...
