West Africa regional bloc ECOWAS has approved the deployment of a security mission to Sierra Leone. The move comes after an attempted coup against the government of President Julius Mada Bio in November. Sierra Leone’s police chief said on Tuesday that ex-president Ernest Bai Koroma was a "suspect" in the organization of the November 26…
For 74 years, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, has provided healthcare, education and social services to many. Yet, the war on Gaza has severely affected UNRWA as Israeli air strikes have hit its facilities and killed at least 130 of its humanitarian workers. UNRWA’s work was…
Al Jazeera’s Anas Al Shareef reports from the scene of an Israeli air raid which destroyed a mosque in northern Gaza. The UN says Israel has hit more than 100 mosques in Gaza since October 7. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/…
Israeli forces are carrying out their most intense raid in the Occupied West Bank — since the Gaza war began. This is by far the largest and the longest of these Israeli military raids we’ve seen pretty much every night over the past couple of months since the war began. Nearly 500 people have been…
Rami Khouri, the director of global engagement at the American University of Beirut, said the US and Israel have backed themselves into a corner over the war on Gaza and are now seen “as evil people in the eyes of most of the world”. “If you look at the polling evidence, demonstrations, the vote at…
Exclusive footage aired by Al Jazeera shows rescuers assisting injured people and carrying a stretcher while walking through the rubble following an Israeli strike on al-Minbar Mosque in the Jabalia refugee camp. “This is an injustice,” one man told Al Jazeera as he inspected the rubble. Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Anas al-Sharif, reporting from the…
Starting next year, foreign tourists will have to pay a tax to enter the Indonesian island of Bali. Revenue from the 10-dollar fee is meant to address a growing trash problem. Al Jazeera’s Florence Looi reports and experts are warning tourism is contributing to Bali’s water shortage. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on…
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara discussed recent shifts in Biden’s stance. He highlighted that Biden’s tone has recently changed, previously associating himself with a ‘Zionist’ perspective and expressing support for Israel. Additionally, he suggested that Biden is now accusing Netanyahu’s government, possibly under global pressure. Bishara argued that Biden does not seem pleased…
Robert Pape, a political science professor at the University of Chicago, says with about 1% of the population killed in Gaza since the war began, the Israeli campaign is “in the top 25% of all bombing campaigns in history in terms of civilian damage”. Robert Pape, a professor of Political Science at the University of…
In Gaza, at least 16,248 people have reportedly been killed in just two months, including an average of 115 children per day, making this the deadliest conflict for children in current times. Almost 70% of those killed in Gaza since October 7th are women and children. Reem Alsalem, a UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against…