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Items by Samira Shackle
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Syria: my journey into a nightmare war
I don’t know how to feel. Part of me is relieved that I made it back alive, but I feel guilty that my relatives and my people are dying. I have only minor physical injuries, but the mental scars are still there. I don’t sleep well at night and...
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Journalism in Syria is fast becoming impossible
Journalism in Syria is no easy task. With access for foreign journalists becoming increasingly difficult, much of the newsgathering falls to local reporters and citizen journalists – but the situation for them, too, is hazardous. The advocacy group Reporters Without Borders has warned that Syrian government troops are targeting media...
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Israeli settler violence mirrors the large-scale aggression implicit in land grabbing
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the entrance of a mosque in the village of Deir Istiya, in the occupied West Bank, was set on fire. The walls were spray-painted with hate messages in Hebrew, including “Arabs out” and “revenge for blood spilled in Qusra”. The latter message is...