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Healthcare workers have demanded the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya [Getty}
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Israel transfers Gaza hospital director to Ofer Prison

Abu Safiya was abducted by Israeli forces in late December following their raid on the north Gaza hospital and was held at the Sde Teiman detention camp

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15 January, 2025
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28 rights groups call on UAE to free extradited poet Al-Qaradawi

The New Arab Staff
12 January, 2025
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has maintained strong support for Israel as it continues it brutal war on Gaza
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Germany defunds two Israeli rights groups critical of Gaza war

The New Arab Staff
07 January, 2025
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Iran executed over 900 people in 2024, including dozens of women

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 January, 2025
Laila Soueif on hunger strike in protest at Egypt's imprisonment of her son, Alaa Abdel Fattah
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Mother of jailed UK-Egyptian activist reaches 100th day of hunger strike

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07 January, 2025
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Saudi Arabia presses man to give up US citizenship over tweets

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 January, 2025
Relatives of Sednaya prisoners stage protest in Damascus
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Long silenced by fear, Syrians now speak about rampant torture under Assad

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 January, 2025
Photo of Palestinian woman talking to Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank
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Israeli violence in West Bank reaches record levels in 2024

The New Arab Staff
01 January, 2025
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NGO calls on Thailand to arrest Israeli for Gaza war crimes

The New Arab Staff
01 January, 2025
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UN rights expert slams Israeli plan for volunteer prison guards

The New Arab Staff
30 December, 2024
Calls Grow For Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza
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Rights groups file complaint against French-Israeli soldier

The New Arab Staff
17 December, 2024
Image of vigil for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi in Washington DC on 17 December 2024
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Family of Turkish-US activist killed by Israel seek US probe

The New Arab
17 December, 2024
Photo of suspected mass graves unearthed near Damascus, Syria
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Bodies of women, children found in mass grave in southern Syria

The New Arab
17 December, 2024
Photo of US citizen Travis Timmerman after being released from prison in Syria
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Freed US citizen in Syria named as Travis Timmerman

The New Arab Staff
12 December, 2024
Palestinian and international doctors gather for a press conference to call for the treatment of 25,000 patients from Gaza . (Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Doctors urge medical evacuations from Gaza to east Jerusalem

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 December, 2024
Activists demonstrate against female child marriages in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on July 28, 2024,
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Iraq MPs postpone vote on revised bill over child marriage

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
02 December, 2024
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Saudi executes more than 100 foreigners in 2024

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 November, 2024
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Palestinian refugees in Iraq deprived of right to 'own taxis'

The New Arab Staff
15 November, 2024
A photo taken on October 29, 2024 shows an exterior view of the Iranian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, a day after Iran executed 69-year-old German-Iranian Sharmahd, who was sentenced to death in February 2023 for the capital offence of "corruption on Earth".
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Outrage as Iran executes German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 October, 2024
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HRW's Joe Stork, pioneer in Western Middle East studies, dies

The New Arab Staff
25 October, 2024