As Israel speaks openly about the ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s Palestinians, Western countries are nowhere to be seen or heard, says Michael Young in an article on Carnegie. Israel has made great efforts over the [ More … ]
A decade on from the bloodshed of August 2013, Egyptians have no reason to trust western rhetoric about human rights, says Egypt’s former investment minister Yehia Hamed On the London-based Middle East Eye, Yehia Hamed, [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have failed for a decade to hold anyone accountable for the largest mass killing in Egypt’s modern history, said Human Rights Watch in a report. The Rabaa massacre, a likely crime against humanity, [ More … ]
The pro-Egyptian government media have attacked the “Memories of a Massacre” documentary, which addresses the events of the dispersal of the Rabaa al-Adawiya sit-in in 2013, in coincidence with the start of its release in [ More … ]
As heavily armed Israeli soldiers stormed the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, at least nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, were killed and about 20 wounded. The Palestinian Ministry of [ More … ]
Today, August 14, marks the seventh anniversary of the brutal dispersal of a peaceful sit-in in Cairo’s Rabaa Square by tens of thousands of supporters of late President Mohamed Morsi, protesting peacefully the military coup [ More … ]
Rights groups keep demanding probe into deadly crackdown on Egyptians protesting against Mohamed Morsi’s overthrow. Six years ago, Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president, in [ More … ]
Four school children among five shot dead by security forces during rally against rising costs, Sudan opposition groups say. At least five protesters, including four high school students, have been shot dead after security forces [ More … ]
Vice President Fuat Oktay says terror and terrorists have ‘no religion, no race, no geography’ Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay on Monday has called on the world to stop promoting “provocative language” after Friday’s terrorist [ More … ]
The Hebron-based Palestinian activist group Youth Against Settlements organized a vigil on Sunday night in Hebron’s Old City to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Ibrahimi mosque massacre, and to demand that Israeli authorities reopen [ More … ]
Turkey’s former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has called on the whole world, particularly the UNSC, the OIC, and the international human rights organizations to bear their responsibilities and move to stop the massacres in Aleppo. In a statement [ More … ]
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