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Behind the numbers: Gaza’s unprecedented aid worker death toll

 Cairo.. Muhamad Yehia Farah* decided to write the name of her children on their wrists and legs after surviving a 5am airstrike that killed several of her neighbours. That way, her children’s bodies would be identifiable if the family were hit again, the doctor wrote in a text message to her colleagues …

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Who was Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader ? Israel says it killed

Muhamad Yehia BEIRUT (AP) — Yahya Sinwar masterminded an attack on Israel that shocked the world, unleashing a still-widening catastrophe with no end in sight. In Gaza, no figure loomed larger in determining the war’s trajectory than the 61-year-old Hamas leader. Obsessive, disciplined and dictatorial, he was a rarely seen …

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Biden says Sinwar’s death is an ‘opportunity’ for a hostage deal and an end to war in Gaza

Muhamad Yehia BERLIN (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli troops is a “ President Joe Biden ” calling it an opportunity to free hostages held by the militant group and end the yearlong war in Gaza. “Now’s the time to move …

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Israel says it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza

Muhamad Yehia JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him unknowingly in a battle, only to discover afterwards that a body in the …

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Lebanon’s ever-rising toll, M23 talks, and the new UN relief chief

cairo – Muhamad Yehia Israel strikes central Beirut; Lebanon toll passes 1,300 Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut on 10 October killed at least 22 people and injured over 100 others, and two members of the the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) were injured when an Israeli tank opened …

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Under Israeli bombs, civil society fills the void left by the Lebanese state

Muhamad Yehia — BEIRUT “We are in need of two mattresses.” “Does anyone have an apartment for two families that left the south?” “Can someone provide baby clothes and milk? Urgent.” Lebanese social media has been flooded in recent weeks by posts like these from people trying to crowd-source resources, …

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Ethiopia’s unfinished peace deal leaves hundreds of thousands of ex-fighters in limbo

Muhamad Yehia ..ADDIS ABABA As a rebel soldier, 24-year-old Danayit fought in some of the fiercest battles of the recent civil war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, often spending days marching through the mountains without food and losing dozens of friends on the front line. Eventually, a piece of shrapnel …

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‘Horrific’ civilian toll as Ethiopia turns to combat drones to quell local insurgencies

 Muhamad Yehia ..ADDIS ABABA The Ethiopian Orthodox priest reached the site of the explosion just minutes after the missile had hit. It was a scene of complete devastation. “It was horrific,” he told The New Humanitarian. “The place was littered with body parts of dead people, intact dead bodies, and …

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Aid workers risk death and kidnap in Ethiopia’s troubled Amhara region

ADDIS ABABA  – Muhamad Yehia In late July, Yared Melese, a 30-year-old NGO worker, checked into a hotel in North Wollo zone, part of Ethiopia’s troubled Amhara region. He had gone to assess humanitarian needs on behalf of Action for Social Development and Environmental Protection Organisation (ASDEPO), an Ethiopian non-profit. …

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Dadaab Voices: Kenya’s flagship refugee plan marred by lack of consultation

Muhamad Yehia The Kenyan government has announced a plan that could transform the lives of the more than 670,000 refugees sheltering in the country – ending a three-decade-old policy that has forced them to remain in isolated, overcrowded, and chronically underfunded camps. Launched with fanfare last year, the Shirika plan aims to …

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