Israeli authorities refuse to grant licenses to Palestinian water authorities to dig more much-needed wells.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/15/water-war-palestinians-demand-more-water-access-from-israel
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Significant increases in cases in Libya, Iran, Iraq and Tunisia, with sharp rises expected in Lebanon and Morocco.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/14/risk-of-catastrophic-coronavirus-surge-in-middle-east-who
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Militants’ advance continues as Britain nears end of its two-decade deployment to country
The Taliban’s rapid advance through northern Afghanistan continued on Sunday with more than a dozen districts falling to the militants, as Britain entered the final days of its two-decade deployment to Afghanistan.
More than 300 members of the Afghan security forces fled across the border into Tajikistan to escape the militants, and Badakhshan and Takhar provinces are now largely under Taliban control, beyond the respective regional capitals.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/04/hundreds-of-afghan-security-forces-flee-as-districts-fall-to-taliban
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul and Dan Sabbagh
The action was a response to drone attacks on American personnel and facilities in Iraq, an official said.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-forces-launch-airstrikes-against-iran-backed-militias-n1272489
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State news agency reports ‘explosions in Damacus’; war monitor says at least eight pro-government fighters killed.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/9/israeli-strikes-kill-eight-fighters-in-syria-says-monitor
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Some 200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including 59 children, and 10 have been killed in Israel, according to local officials.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/no-sign-israel-gaza-violence-abating-amid-calls-end-bloodshed-n1267548
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IDF says ground forces have joined the attacks on Gaza Strip but have not entered the enclave. This live blog has now closed – for the latest reports, please head here
12.57pm BST
Here’s how things stand halfway through Friday, the fifth day of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, in what is the most serious fighting between the parties since 2014.
After an intense night of exchanges of air strikes and rocket fire, aerial attacks appear to be continuing in Gaza and across Israel, albeit at a slower pace. Violent protests are flaring across the West Bank, and mixed Israeli cities are bracing for another night of ethnically-charged rioting.
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Members of the US Congress debated the deadly hostilities in Israel and Gaza last night.
Rep Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American congresswoman who has been critical of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, questioned the US government’s ‘unconditional support’ of Israel and, often tearing up as she spoke, accused Israel of being an ‘apartheid state’.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/may/13/israel-launches-ground-operation-in-gaza-after-days-of-airsstrikes-follow-updates
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Medics say 28 Palestinians, two Israelis and an Indian woman have died after day of fierce confrontation
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed to increase the intensity of attacks on Gaza, after a day of ferocious confrontations that left 31 people dead as Israeli jets and Palestinian militants traded airstrikes and rockets.
As medics on both sides put the death toll at 28 Palestinians, including 10 children, two Israelis and an Indian woman working in Ashkelon, the Israeli prime minister said there would be no pause. “It was decided that both the might of the attacks and the frequency of the attacks will be increased,” he announced.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/11/dead-in-gaza-after-jerusalem-violence-spreads
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem and Julian Borger in Washington
At least 44 people have been killed and 150 hospitalized in a stampede at a large Jewish festival in northern Israel, AP reports.
The big picture: Tens of thousands of people gathered at Mount Meron to observe Lag BaOmer, an Orthodox Jewish holiday honoring Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a 2nd century sage buried there, per AP. It’s the deadliest civilian disaster in Israel’s history, tied with a 2010 forest fire that killed 44.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with new details.
Source: https://www.axios.com/dozens-killed-stampede-israel-religious-6d4e6554-6b3b-40f5-86fb-80a33d4e21fa.html
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Policymakers must shift focus away from a political solution to a rights-based approach, HRW and analysts say.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/27/israel-uses-apartheid-to-subjugate-palestinians-hrw-report
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Murder sparks calls for stricter punishment for perpetrators after woman is killed by man released on bail.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/22/kuwait-is-unsafe-for-women-outrage-over-brutal-murder-of-woman
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A Houthi spokesman claims four drones targeted positions in Riyadh but no confirmation yet from Saudi Arabia.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/1/yemens-houthis-say-attacked-saudi-capital-riyadh-with-four-drone
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As an occupier, Israel must provide medical supplies to Palestinians and adopt measures to combat the virus there.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/3/23/covid-19-vaccinations-are-proof-of-israels-medical-apartheid
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How the Arab revolutions inspired Palestinian mobilisation in Gaza.
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Pope says he felt duty-bound to visit Iraq because the country had suffered so much for so long.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/5/pope-francis-calls-for-end-to-extremism-in-first-address-in-iraq
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BAGHDAD — At least 10 rockets targeted a military base in western Iraq that hosts U.S.-led coalition troops on Wednesday, the coalition and the Iraqi military said. It was not immediately known if there were any casualties.
The rockets struck Ain al-Asad airbase in Anbar province at 7:20 a.m., coalition spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto said. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Iraqi military released a statement saying the attack did not cause significant losses and that security forces had found the launch pad used for the rockets. It was found in the al-Baghdadi area of Anbar, an Iraqi military official said on condition of anonymity to discuss the attack with the media.
It was the first attack since the U.S. struck Iran-aligned militia targets along the Iraq-Syria border last week, killing one militiaman and stoking fears of a possible repeat of a series of tit-for-tat attacks that escalated last year, culminating in the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani outside the Baghdad airport.
Wednesday’s attack targeted the same base where Iran struck with a barrage of missiles in January last year in retaliation for the killing of Soleimani. Dozens of U.S. service members were injured, suffering concussions in that strike.
British Ambassador to Iraq Stephen Hickey condemned the attack, saying it undermined the ongoing fight against the Islamic State group. “Coalition forces are in Iraq to fight Daesh at the invitation of the Iraqi government,” he tweeted, using the Arabic acronym for IS. “These terrorist attacks undermine the fight against Daesh and destabilize Iraq.”
Denmark, which like the U.S. and Britain also has troops at the base, said coalition forces at Ain al-Asad were helping to bring stability and security to the country.
“Despicable attacks against Ain al-Asad base in #Iraq are completely unacceptable,” Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod tweeted. The Danish armed forces said two Danes, who were in the camp at the time of the attack, are unharmed.
Wednesday’s attack comes two days before Pope Francis’ is scheduled to visit Iraq in a much anticipated trip that will include Baghdad, southern Iraq and in the northern city of Irbil.
Last week’s U.S. strike along the border had been in response to a spate of rocket attacks that targeted the American presence, including one that killed a coalition contractor from the Philippines outside the Irbil airport.
After that attack, the Pentagon said the strike was a “proportionate military response” taken after consulting coalition partners.
Marotto said the Iraqi security forces were leading an investigation into the attack on Ain al-Asad.
U.S. troops in Iraq significantly decreased their presence in the country last year under the Trump administration. The forces withdrew from several Iraqi based across the country to consolidate chiefly in Ain al-Asad and Baghad.
Frequent rocket attacks targeting the heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy, during President Donald Trump’s time in office frustrated the administration, leading to threats of embassy closure and escalatory strikes.
Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/03/iraq-airbase-attack-us-troops-473203
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It snowed in the Middle East on Wednesday, covering parts of Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and Israel in rare white blanket. The region is known more for being dry and hot than snowstorms. But a huge dip in the jet stream similar to what’s happening in Texas allowed polar air to plunge from…
Source: https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-middle-east-is-blanketed-in-rare-snowfall-1846297090
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Analysis: Fiery rhetoric of Trump era is gone, but flare-up in northern Iraq is a microcosm of tension to come
Joe Biden faces his first real test with Iran. A barrage of 15 rockets in northern Iraq that struck a US base, killing a military contractor and wounding a soldier, were likely aimed as much at testing the new president’s mettle as they were at causing damage.
In the hours after the attack on Erbil airport, where much of the remaining US presence in Iraq is based, a Shia group loyal to Iran felt emboldened enough to claim it. Although the boast was from a hitherto unknown group, it left no doubt who was behind the first such barrage since Biden’s inauguration.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/middle-east-biden-resumption-traditional-diplomacy-analysis
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent
At least 24 people killed and scores more injured in series of attacks in rebel-held areas of country
At least 24 people have been killed and scores wounded across parts of rebel-held Syria after a weekend of violence that included several car bomb attacks.
Eleven people died and 30 more were injured in the town of Azaz, when a car bomb detonated on Sunday near a building used by Turkish-backed fighters as an administrative headquarters. Pictures from the scene showed black smoke rising from the mangled remains of the car, damaged buildings and a street covered in debris from the explosion.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/01/syria-dozens-killed-in-weekend-of-violence
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The Article Was Written/Published By: Bethan McKernan Middle East correspondent
Flyover comes a day after Israel’s top general warned US President Joe Biden against return to Iran nuclear deal.
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/27/us-flies-b-52-bombers-over-middle-east-for-third-time-this-year
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