NGOs

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Gaza
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What Israel's ban on aid groups means for Gaza's future

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

Alessandra Bajec
15 January, 2026
An aerial view shows displaced Palestinians living in makeshift shelters among the ruins of destroyed buildings along the coastline of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip on January 6, 2026
Israel
MENA
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EU urges Israel to end crackdown on NGOs operating in Gaza

The New Arab Staff
07 January, 2026
Demonstrators hold placards featuring the portrait of the detained civil society activist and former Executive Director of NGO 'Terre d'Asile Tunisie', Sherifa Riahi, as well as those of other defendants
Tunisia
MENA
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Tunisia court frees NGO workers accused of helping migrants

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 January, 2026
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Gaza War
MENA
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Int'l aid groups grapple with impact of Israel's ban in Gaza

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
04 January, 2026
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Gaza
MENA
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Israel to bar aid NGOs from Gaza as cancer patients face death

The New Arab Staff
31 December, 2025
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UN
MENA
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NGOs pledge over $260m for Syria aid

The New Arab
02 April, 2017
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Rights
MENA
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Palestinian NGOs demand Hamas reopen border crossing

The New Arab
31 March, 2017
Egypt protest
torture
Analysis
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Police state Egypt: NGOs under attack

Jo Schietti
31 December, 2016
عزة سليمان
UN
MENA
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UN chief concerned by arrest of Egyptian rights lawyer

The New Arab & agencies
08 December, 2016
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women
Society
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#IWillSupportMyself: Sudan's uneducated single mothers get a second chance

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

25 November, 2016
Egypt change getty
repression
MENA
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Egypt parliament approves contentious NGO draft bill

The New Arab & agencies
16 November, 2016
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US aid
MENA
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US pledges additional $181 million in aid to Iraq

The New Arab & agencies
14 September, 2016
Syria aid
USAID
MENA
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Graft probe suspends millions in US aid to Syrians

The New Arab & agencies
11 May, 2016
School Syria
schools
Analysis
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After the bombing, Russia looks to win Syrian friends

The New Arab
12 April, 2016
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UN
MENA
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Rights groups sound alarm on crackdown on Egyptian NGOs

The New Arab
24 March, 2016
Molham Syria
Syrian war
Analysis
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Molham Traifi: the Syrian activist who keeps on giving

Paul McLoughlin & Rand Aljammal
20 August, 2015
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Palestine
Perspectives

The Nakba profiteering cliques

The New Arab Staff

Samer Jaber

29 June, 2015
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Operation Cast Lead
Narrated

Changing lives with the power of social media

The New Arab Staff

Ali Dahmash

03 February, 2015