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November 1, 2021
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Reuters
After dawn prayers Hatim Ali Hadi dons his tracksuit and heads to a park in the Yemeni capital Sanaa for group exercise sessions which help take people's minds off...
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October 28, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
The Palestinian Authority has found another issue to attach to its political agenda in an attempt to divert attention away from the fact that its leadership has lost all...
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October 26, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Israel's concern with its public image was on display yesterday, when local media reported that former Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Major General Nitzan Alon has described this year's bombing...
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October 22, 2021
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Reuters
His motorbike's tank almost empty, Ahmad had barely enough fuel to make one more delivery and get home for the night. When the 24-year-old Syrian's phone pinged with a...
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October 21, 2021
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Reuters
In a square in central Fez, the steady beat of hammers on copper has returned – a welcome signal for the ancient Moroccan city's thousands of artisans that trade...
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October 21, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
As Israel continues to approve illegal settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, Irish politician Chris MacManus, a member of the European Parliament for Sinn Féin, has criticised the...
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October 19, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
As happens each year during the Palestinian olive harvest, Israel's illegal settlers are destroying olive trees and attacking Palestinian farmers. The International Committee of the Red Cross has said...
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October 14, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
"We're trying to avoid having confrontations with the US administration," Palestine's Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, stated in a recent interview with the Times of Israel. Obviously, US...
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October 12, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Depoliticising the Palestinian people when it comes to their rights is a tactic Israel endorses and utilises. Palestinians "are our neighbours, they are not going anywhere," Israeli Prime Minister...
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October 7, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
A political crisis that has cast the spotlight on the illegitimacy of the Palestinian leadership cannot be swept under the carpet by a speech to the UN General Assembly....
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October 7, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Building upon his speech to the UN General Assembly, Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, warned that if Israel rejects the two-state compromise, which it has already given the colonial...
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September 30, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Each year, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) provides proof of the fallacy upon which the two-state compromise in Palestine-Israel is based. Palestine's economy is tied perpetually...
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September 28, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas's long rigmarole at the UN General Assembly provided only a partial historical reckoning. The link between colonialism and the UN, notably within the context...
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September 27, 2021
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Reuters
Souad Hdidou is challenging social norms and busting stereotypes from behind the wheel as the only female taxi driver in the Moroccan capital Rabat and one of a few...
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September 24, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Recent statistics corroborate the growing resentment in the occupied Palestinian territories against the Palestinian Authority and its leader Mahmoud Abbas. The Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research (PSR)...
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September 23, 2021
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Reuters
Majed Sait and his wife are spending their honeymoon on a cruise in the turquoise waters off Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, a voyage that is still a novelty...
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September 21, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
A few weeks after Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz dangled the promise of a few concessions to strengthen the Palestinian Authority's illegitimate rule, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has articulated...
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On a recent afternoon, Lebanese cryptocurrency trader Mario Awad was sorting out the details of a $2 million deal with a high-profile customer – complete with a hotel stay...
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Just months ago, Cameroonian migrant Wilfred Christopher had a home and stable job as a pastry chef in Abu Dhabi. Now, the 26-year-old fears for his life after authorities...
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September 16, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is spearheading an initiative ahead of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, urging governments and diplomats to reject the so-called anti-Israel bias at an international...
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September 14, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
What does the Palestinian Authority care about the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails? If the rhetoric of Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh is all we have to go...
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September 9, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
The recent meeting between Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas established that Palestinians are being exploited in order to provide for the PA's stability...
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September 7, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
The Palestinian Authority's stances in the aftermath of Nizar Banat's extrajudicial killing at the hands of its own security services have ushered in no promise of accountability. While the...
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September 6, 2021
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Reuters
"Where we are standing right now, there should be a river," says Nabil Musa, gesturing at a dried-up riverbed in northern Iraq. For the environmental activist, the reason the...
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September 2, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
In terms of state-building and diplomatic negotiations, the occupied West Bank has been perceived in starkly different terms from Gaza. With the international community funnelling financial assistance to the...
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August 31, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Yesterday's meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz has irked both Israeli and Palestinian officials. The Israelis have suggested that Gantz might be...
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August 27, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is playing with words to advance the colonial state's de-facto annexation of the occupied West Bank. In an interview with the New York Times,...
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August 25, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
There is a stark difference in the language used by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its April 2017 report which describes Israel as having committed crimes of apartheid, and...
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August 19, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
So "deeply concerned" is the UN at the Israeli raid of the offices of Defence for Children International-Palestine (DCIP), that the belated official statement by the special rapporteurs suggests...
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August 17, 2021
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Reuters
Philippine national Maya and her husband lost their low-paying jobs in the United Arab Emirates early in the coronavirus pandemic and with it their work visas and health insurance....
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August 17, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
Another call by Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh for international protection for the people of occupied Palestine speaks volumes about Ramallah's complicity in violent acquiescence, rather than the...
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August 12, 2021
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Ramona Wadi
The Palestinian Authority has stepped up its notorious "accomplishments" against the Palestinian people. Statistics published by the Palestinian Centre for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) show that in June,...