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Third aid convoy enters Gaza via Egypt border crossingF

An aid convoy entered the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday via the Rafah border crossing, AFP correspondents on the Egyptian and Palestinian sides said, the third since war erupted on October 7. More than a dozen lorries crossed Rafah, the correspondents said, adding to...

Anger in the Arab world over strike on a Gaza hospitalF

In Libya: Several hundred people protested in Tripoli and other Libyan cities late Tuesday over the deadly strike on a Gaza hospital, according to AFP journalists. In Tripoli, hundreds of demonstrators of all ages,  brandishing Palestinian flags and some covering...

Egypt: Relief convoys in Egypt head towards Gaza border crossingF

Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were Tuesday headed towards the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza, aid officials said. The blockaded territory has been under sustained Israeli bombardment since Gaza's ruling...

Egypt’s newest prisons considered “cruel and inhuman” by rights activistsF

One of Egypt's newest prisons, presented as a model by authorities, has only replicated "cruel and inhuman conditions" in facilities previously used to house political opponents, Amnesty International said Thursday. Amnesty secretary general Agnes Callamard accused...

Saudi Arabia jails Egyptian men for attempt to organize remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli warF

A Saudi judge on Monday sentenced 10 Egyptian men for up to 18 years for having tried to organise a remembrance event for the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, two relatives told AFP. The men, from Egypt's Nubian minority group, were found guilty of trying to establish a...

Egypt replants mangrove ‘treasure’ to fight climate change impactsF

By Bahira Amin: On Egypt's Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves, part of a programme to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines and fight climate change and its impacts. After decades of destruction that saw the mangroves cleared, all...

US pressured to use its influence to advance human rights in the Arab worldF

By Inès Bel Aiba: Relatives of imprisoned or recently released activists in the Middle East, including in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, urged the United States this week to use its influence to secure progress on human rights in those countries. Their talks in Washington...

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