by Ambra Visentin
The suicide attack in the northwestern district of Bajaur on Sunday 30 July left at least 56 people dead and nearly 200 injured. This is yet another wound for a country that has long lived under the...
Editorial Board - Haaretz, OtherNews
The danger looming over Israel in recent years has been fully realized. A Prime Minister indicted in three corruption cases cannot look after state affairs, as national interests will necessarily be subordinate to extricating him...
By Alice Pistolesi
Violence broke out even at the funeral of journalist Shereen Abu Akleh, killed on 11 May while following an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
At the funeral of the Al Jazeera reporter,...
by Angelo Maddalena*
The story that began two weeks ago with the author’s journey and what the Free Syrian Army was and is today, ends with the inspirations that come from the Catholic-Syriac monastic community of Saint Moses the Abyssinian,...
by Jennifer Zacharia* – Boston Review
During the summer of 1998, my cousin Shireen’s alarm would wake us both at 6 a.m. every morning. She shared her room with me while I worked in Palestine during that time. When the...
By Camilla Ballerini
The organization "Open Society Foundations" in 2021 published a new report "A Passage to Justice - Selected Yemeni civil society views for transitional justice and long-term accountability in Yemen". The report is based on interviews with Yemeni...
By Atlas of Wars (East/AGR)
The escalation of violence in the Middle East continues. Numerous rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel followed air raids conducted by the Israeli army against the Palestinian territories and at least five Palestinians...
By Alice Pistolesi
"A predictable tragedy that highlights the need for urgent international action". This is how UN official Vladimir Voronkov described the siege at al-Sina'a prison in north-eastern Syria. The prison, stormed by Islamic State jihadists on 20 January,...
By Camilla Ballerini
The Israeli movement "Machsom Watch" was born in 2001 from the willpower of 3 women who dedicated themselves to gathering Israeli women from all social classes, to give a voice to those who live in the Palestinian...
by Ambra Visentin
Over the past five years, European countries have almost doubled their arms imports and their dependence on US suppliers is at an all-time high. At the same time, the volume of arms transfers in the world has...
