Thread: On World Tourism Day, we take a look at destinations filled with rich histories and hidden stories.
If you're wanderlust or keen to learn more about hidden gems in the MENA region, this is for you 👇 #WorldTourismDay
With the rise in global armchair travelling due to the pandemic, MEE takes a virtual tour of ten of Jordan's spectacular, and lesser known, sites 🇯🇴🏛️ middleeasteye.net/discover/jorda…
Beyond the cruise boats on the glistening channel, or the ancient markets further inland, lies a city famous for its rich heritage... middleeasteye.net/discover/turke…
This exhibition traces a tangle of histories, encompassing the site’s mysterious ancient origins, its rise to prominence, western appropriation, its political identity and the contemporary reality... middleeasteye.net/discover/baalb…
Al-Andalus was the territory under Muslim rule for more than seven centuries, from 711 and 1492.
At its greatest extent, it covered most of the Iberian peninsula, including modern-day Spain and Portugal. middleeasteye.net/discover/trave…
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- Five journalists for "Al-Quds Today" were killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on their vehicle
- Israeli forces detonated an explosives-laden robot near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, wounding a nurse
- At least three Palestinian infants have died of hypothermia in the past two days while sheltering in tents in southern Khan Younis
The Israeli army has confirmed that it carried out "a precise strike " on a press vehicle in Gaza that killed five al-Quds journalists, claiming it targeted a "terrorist cell inside in the area of Nuseirat."
Israeli killing of five journalists earlier today has brought the total number of media workers killed in Gaza since the start of the war to 201, the Government Media Office in Gaza said on Thursday
- ICJ to decide on Israel’s aid obligations to Palestinians
- Israeli forces abduct over 100 Palestinians in West Bank raids
- PA forces clash with resistance fighters in Jenin
Israel has ordered the closure and evacuation of one of the last hospitals partly functioning in besieged northern Gaza.
The director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, Husam Abu Safiya, told Reuters that it was "next to impossible" to get patients and wounded people out to safety
🧵Israel planned to establish military, strategic ties with Kurds in the northeast and Druze in the south. This would have also served to limit Turkey’s influence in Syria to Idlib and the northwest, MEE’s editor-in-chief David Hearst writes ⤵️
The Israeli plan to divide Syria was hinted at in a speech by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar a month ago
In the speech, he said Israel needed to reach out to the Kurds and the Druze in Syria and Lebanon, adding that there were “political and security aspects” that needed to be considered
- 18 people killed in an Israeli airstrike
- UN reported that humanitarian aid to northern Gaza has been largely inaccessible for the past 66 days
- Israeli forces imposed a security cordon around the Abu Obeida Mosque
At least 28 people were killed, with several others still missing beneath the rubble, following an Israeli air strike on a building near Kamal Adwan Hospital middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live…
🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine
Medical sources reported that Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have claimed the lives of 33 Palestinians since dawn today, with 23 of the victims killed in the northern region of the territory middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live…
- UN report highlights severe food shortages, price surges in Syria
- Gulf monarchies scramble in Syria as ghosts of the Arab Spring return
- Austria begins preparations to deport Syrian refugees
The Austrian government has announced the start of preparations for a deportation program targeting Syrian refugees, following its decision to suspend asylum applications for Syrians middleeasteye.net/live/live-syri…
🔴 UPDATE #SyriaWar
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that the crisis in Syria was orchestrated in an "American and Israeli operations room" middleeasteye.net/live/live-syri…