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This weekend, The New Arab’s Associate Features Editor Zainab Mehdi attended Mahrajan, the UK’s first Arabic music festival, bringing together an iconic line-up of Arab music legends and a new generation of genre-defying artists.
War crime.
The New ArabIsraeli airstrikes bombed medical warehouses near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, early Saturday 1 August. The strikes destroyed at least half of the facilities and extensively damaged nearby tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, witnesses said.
No surprise, here, like father, like son.
The New ArabEliyahu Goldstein, son of Ibrahimi Mosque massacre perpetrator Baruch Goldstein, expands settlement activity in Hebron through land seizures and attacks:
“”Children need play to recover. In Gaza, that right has almost disappeared. Any safe space where children can laugh, interact with others and express themselves becomes an essential part of psychological recovery."”
The New ArabA Palestinian therapist is using rescued animals to help Gaza's displaced children heal from war trauma and find moments of joy amid ongoing destruction: