Last month, the shooting of a young Palestinian in Kufr Kana, near Nazareth, triggered a new wave of rioting in Palestinian towns and villages inside Israel amid sharp tensions after months of …
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories- More cases of Palestinian prisoners becoming fathers via sperm smuggling have come out since the first successful artificial insemination of its kind was reported in 2012. Just over a month …
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories- Israel’s recent offensive in Gaza triggered an unprecedented boycott of Israeli products across the West Bank, as many Palestinians opted for local equivalents in response to the Israeli military …
CAIRO, Egypt- About three weeks have gone by since the signing of a ceasefire agreement ended an almost two-month war that left around 2,143 Gazans dead and over 12,000 wounded. Hostilities halted …
ARSAL, Lebanon- In early April 2014, the UN High Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) claimed that the number of Syrian refugees registered in Lebanon passed one million, amounting to a quarter of the …
TRIPOLI, Lebanon- Father Arabius knows his city well. He serves St. Michael’s Orthodox Church in Ebbe, a district of Lebanon’s second city, Tripoli. Ebbe is bordered by two rival neighborhoods where a …
RAFAH, Gaza- Following Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement, which ended Israel’s “Operation Pillar of Defense” last 21st November, Gaza’s tunnels are operating again. In the meantime, according to a security source, Egyptian security services …
