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The draconian law used by Israel to steal Palestinian land

Analysts say all outposts are a backdoor to keep claiming Palestinian land after Israel committed to the Oslo Accords.

Israeli soldiers stand guard

‘Total chaos’: Fears grow over Lebanon’s impoverished military

Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun has warned the armed forces might collapse if not financially supported.

Lebanon

Will Israel’s Bennett be worse than Bibi for Palestinians?

Some analysts predict new leader will carry out his agenda of expanding illegal Israeli settlements more vigorously.

A staunch supporter of settlements and annexation of most of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Naftali Bennett also opposes a two-state solution to the conflict [Agencies] 

Palestinian ‘renaissance’ as Israel makes mass arrests

Israel’s intensified detention of Palestinian activists and journalists is reinvigorating peaceful resistance.

Palestinian activists Muna and Mohammed al-Kurd were arrested and later released by Israeli authorities in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood [File: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]

Israel losing US perception battle as Palestinian sympathy grows

Opinion of legislators and the US public had already begun to shift before the 11-day bombardment of Gaza.

Supporters of Palestinians rally during at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC [File: Jose Luis Magana/AP]

Lebanon crisis: Boutique hotels pivot in the age of ‘Lollars’

As Lebanon’s economic crisis stretches into its 18th month, some boutique hotel owners are pivoting to survive.

Colette Khalil runs the boutique hotel Beit al Batroun, about an hour and a half from Lebanon’s capital, Beirut [Anchal Vohra/Al Jazeera]

‘No one cares’: Lebanon’s financial crisis and domestic workers

As Lebanon’s economy and currency collapse, foreign domestic workers struggle to make ends meet.

An Ethiopian domestic worker cries as she waits with dozens of others outside the Ethiopian consulate, some inquiring about flights home, others stranded after they were abandoned by employers who cla

‘Afraid of return’: Palestinians fearful of life in Yarmouk camp

Some 160,000 Palestinians were forced to flee Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus throughout the 10-year-long war.

Refugees in Yarmouk

Syrian refugees’ plight in Lebanon 10 years after the uprising

Lebanon hosts the largest per capita population of Syrian refugees in the world, providing shelter to 1.7 million.

Syrian refugee Ahmed Staifi stands in front of the house where his wife and two daughters were killed in the massive Beirut explosion [File: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

Syria launches COVID vaccine drive as Israel questions swirl

Many in Syria say it is an open secret the vaccine is Russia’s Sputnik V that had been bought by Israel.

Many Syrians in government-controlled and rebel-held areas are worried they might be left out of the vaccination drive if it is carried out without any international oversight [File: AP via SANA]