Category: Middle East
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A UNICEF-led nutrition survey in Gaza found acute malnutrition low and stunting at 12.2 per cent, ten months after a ceasefire. Some read it as evidence the 2025 famine declaration was wrong. The survey itself says something narrower.
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Vegetable oil in Iran costs 383 per cent more than a year ago and the currency is collapsing. Why an imported staple is the fastest read on a currency crisis, and the long argument about who economic pressure actually reaches.
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Settlers besieged three homes in Qusra on 9 August. Three weeks on, the Israeli army has installed metal gates at Ras al-Ain — pushing the settlers back 150 metres and replacing them with checkpoints.
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US forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island after spotting preparations to fire sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz. Iran answered with ballistic missiles at American bases in Jordan.
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MSF admitted 1,296 severely malnourished children with complications at one hospital in northern Yemen in six months, against 798 a year earlier. The rise is sharper than the lean season alone explains.
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Mocha has been closed since mid-August after more than 25 missiles hit it — the first attacks on the port since the 2022 truce. Yemen’s frozen war is thawing, and almost nobody is reporting it.
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Iran’s foreign minister says US officials are gaming energy markets for personal gain and keeping the president in a losing war. No evidence was published, no names given. Why the claim is worth reporting anyway — and how to read it.
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Settlers entered the northern West Bank village of Qusra again on Saturday and ambulances evacuated injured Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu, who has said little about similar incidents for months, condemned it as criminal violence.
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Israel’s defence minister said any launch over Gaza is a terrorist act, renewing a threat against anyone releasing a balloon or kite. Parents are now enforcing the ban themselves. The tactic behind the policy is real; so is what it costs.
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Saja Moussa Sharara, 28, was killed when an Israeli strike destroyed the house in Arabsalim she had moved into two days after her wedding. Six others were wounded. It was the first strike on the village since the ceasefire framework took effect.