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Jewish settlers demonstrating yesterday in front of a house in Hebron that they evacuated from last week (EPA)
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A group of Palestinians prepare to throw roses in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Gaza City on September 18, 2014 in mourning over the loss of fellow Palestinians who had boarded a boat to Europe that sank off Malta last week. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)
Gaza’s Youth, Lost at Sea
Gaza and Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat—Residents of the Gaza Strip are anxious about the whereabouts of their young relatives who fled Gaza earlier this month in the hope of finding a better life elsewhere. Their disappearance follows the tragic news that a large number...Caption:
Villa Touma by Suha Arraf (Asharq Al-Awsat)
Suha Arraf: Israeli film directors are benefiting from the tax we pay
Venice, Asharq Al-Awsat—Before film director and scriptwriter Suha Arraf approached the New Israel Fund (NIF) to produce Villa Touma (2014)—her first fictional film as a director—she applied to a number of Arab corporations for funding, but didn’t even receive a...Caption:
Rubble from the presumed home of the leader of Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, Mohammed Deif, in the Sheikh Radwan district in Gaza is seen in this August 20, 2014 file photo, with an artist’s impression (Bottom-R) of how Deif is assumed to look now. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
From the Spotlight to the Shadows
Ramallah,Asharq Al-Awsat—After five failed attempts on his life, the military commander of Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, Mohammed Deif—known as “Abu Khaled”—has become a legendary figure in the eyes of fellow Palestinians, who see in him the de facto minister of...Caption:
A Palestinian woman flees her house following what witnesses said was a nearby air strike on an apartment in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip August 10, 2014. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)