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Mehdi Lebouachera

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Gaza tunnels gear up for business

On the border between Gaza and Egypt, dozens of people are digging and clawing, by shovel and hand, the mounds of rubble left by Israeli bombings.

Tutu plunges into heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu on Wednesday plunged into the harsh reality of the conflict in Gaza, where a tearful Palestinian family recounted losing loved ones in an…

‘We are Palestinian, we are women, we are gay’

Battling against a deeply patriarchal society, Arab Israeli and Palestinian lesbian women are uniting to break the taboo of homosexuality and politicise the right to be female…

Deadly gun battle erupts near Palestinian Parliament

One Jordanian was killed and at least seven Palestinians wounded as rising tensions between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions erupted into heavy fighting near Parliament in Gaza…

Gaza hospital fights for life after international aid cuts

In the al-Shifa hospital, the walls are decrepit and dirty. The elevators are broken. It is a sign of the times in Gaza City, brought to its knees by the international…

Israeli strikes prompt fear and loathing in Gaza

In the skies above Gaza, an Israeli drone circles slowly overhead before its distant buzz is drowned out by the whistling of a missile. "You see, this is what our life has…

Bird flu forces Israeli-Palestinian cooperation

The discovery of deadly bird flu in both Israel and the Palestinian territories is pushing the two sides to work together despite plummeting relations as Hamas prepares for…

The risks of putting Saddam on trial

Judges, prosecutors, attorneys, even law clerks and accountants involved in cases linked to Saddam Hussein’s decades of rule in Iraq live in constant fear of being targeted for…

Bus bombed in Baghdad

Six Iraqi civilians were killed and 10 wounded on Friday in a bomb blast on a public bus in Baghdad as supporters and opponents of the draft Constitution started in earnest to…