The barrier will consist of three layers: an underwater base level; a 50-metre-wide platform made of armored stone, and a six-metre-high barbed wire fence.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza was recently exacerbated by the announcement that Israel would restrict all fuel deliveries to Gaza over the next week and would also tighten its naval blockade off the Gazan coast from six to three nautical miles, a move targeting Gazan fishermen.
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- Israel’s government has instructed the country’s military to prepare for a major military offensive against the Gaza Strip if the launching of “incendiary kites and balloons” over the Gaza-Israel border is not
What is taking shape across this Texas-sized nation at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula is an awful, perfect storm, a disastrous collaboration between nature and man that has caused a cataclysm unlike anything the world has ever seen.
SANA’A, YEMEN -- When his wife’s vomiting and diarrhea simply wouldn’t stop, 40-year-old Ali Sherwaid, an English teacher, did a quick accounting in his head, calibrating the catastrophe that had befallen him. With cholera ravaging his wife, 28 years-old and nine-months pregnant with the couple’s first child, Sherwaid needed to get her medical
On June 12th, a U.S.-Saudi-UAE operation to destroy Yemen’s port city of Al Hudaydah, the only entry-way by which food reaches approximately seven million people, is slated to begin.
The Houthis in Yemen are expected to start being slaughtered en-masse on June 12th. The U.S.-Saudi-UAE plan is to destroy the Yemenese port city of Al Hudaydah, which is the only entry-way by which food reaches approximately seven million Shiites, members of the Houthi tribe, who occupy the western third of Yemen, and who had recently ruled all of
“The Palestinian people of Gaza know very well that they cannot get their inalienable rights by using the military equation since Israel has the fourth strongest army in the world. They cannot get them through negotiations, as those have also failed us. The power of the people, however, is on our side.”
GAZA -- Gaza is in urgent need of opening spaces on many levels. The geophysical space -- incarcerated by Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza and its construction of barriers to “protect Israel’s citizens with power and
Unimpeded by an international community that remains largely silent over Israeli crimes, Tel Aviv has subjected the people of Gaza to numerous novel and experimental tools of repression and weapons delivery systems, including new unmanned systems and militarized methods of spatial control.
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- Whatever one’s opinion may be about the ongoing Israeli dispossession of the people of Palestine and the crippling siege of the Gaza Strip, one can’t fault Tel Aviv for lacking originality. Such unique means of choking off the Palestinians’ ability to live as normal human beings will be on full display with a new $833 million
According to the UN, the number of Yemenis in danger of starving to death would rise from the current figure of 8.4 million to 18.4 million by this December. That’s three times the estimated death toll of Jews killed during the Holocaust.
SANA’A, YEMEN – During a briefing last Friday, the UN warned that millions more Yemeni civilians are expected to starve to death before year’s end as a result of a blockade imposed on the country by
