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Alessandra Bajec

Bajec

Alessandra Bajec is a freelance journalist specialising in the Middle East and North Africa. Previously living in Palestine, then in Cairo, she is currently based in Tunis.

Growing Israeli violence in Jerusalem is prompting warnings from Palestinian church leaders about the future of one of the world's oldest Christian communities

14 May, 2026

In-depth: Israel's new settlement expansion around Jenin will encircle the Palestinian city, fragmenting the northern West Bank to consolidate control

27 April, 2026

Israeli army raids, biometric data collection, and weekly arrests are normalising a military administration in Syria's southwest that resembles the West Bank

25 February, 2026

By passing a new law to register West Bank land as state property, Israel is fast-tracking a decades-long process of annexing the occupied Palestinian territory

18 February, 2026

Israel's ban on dozens of international NGOs from Gaza has fuelled fears of a growing humanitarian crisis and the territory's deepening political isolation

15 January, 2026

Israel's exit-only plan for the Rafah crossing is fuelling fears of a gradual, coerced displacement of Palestinians as it deepens its hold over Gaza

16 December, 2025

Fears are mounting that Gaza's new patchwork of different zones, separated by a Yellow Line, could harden into a permanent partition of the territory

24 November, 2025

As Israeli airstrikes continue, a contentious border wall threatens to push the Lebanon ceasefire to breaking point

17 November, 2025

Locked away for decades, Marwan Barghouti could unite Palestinian politics and energise the drive for statehood, which is why Israel sees him as such a threat

28 October, 2025

The Gaza ceasefire will expose the horrific cost of Israel's genocide as efforts turn to finding those under the rubble and counting the war's true death toll

21 October, 2025