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On November 13, Elham Farah, an elderly and much-loved music teacher from Gaza's ancient Christian minority, died from her wounds after she was shot by an Israeli sniper metres from her home, where she had returned to fetch some warmer clothes.

As Israel's savage onslaught continues, another dark chapter is unfolding. After Hamas' attack on October 7, Gazan labourers with permits to work in Israel were rounded up and arrested, and their horrifying stories are only starting to come out.

Dr Hammam Alloh, a Gazan kidney specialist, was working endlessly at the embattled Al-Shifa Hospital to support the most vulnerable victims of Israel's aggression. He was killed after an airstrike hit his family home.

As Israel continues its most ferocious assault yet on the trapped people of Gaza, it has also targeted journalists' offices, telecommunications networks and internet services, seemingly to prevent accounts of the mounting atrocities emerging.

In Morocco, recent months have seen a series of exceptionally light sentences given to those accused of sexually abusing children, outraging the public who call for severe penalties to put a stop to the devastating crime.

Algerians from every walk of life can be seen flocking to many of the revered saints' shrines that dot the vast country to perform 'wa'adat' - an ancient custom where rituals are performed to honour these holy figures and seek their help. 

Eid al-Adha, or the "Greater Eid", is treasured by Algerians for its religious significance and symbolism but also for the chance it brings for families to reunite and for bonds of kinship to be renewed in an era where family gatherings are a rarity.

Palestinians in Egypt are neither recognised as refugees nor citizens, 75 years after the first refugees arrived after the Nakba, and Egypt's hostile treatment of its Palestinians today contrasts painfully with its warm welcome in the 1950s.