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A Palestinian protester holds a picture of Marwan Barghouti during a rally to support the prisoners' strike in the West Bank town of Hebron, April 17 2017. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

April 19th, 2017 - 02:07 GMT

Palestinian joins prisoner son on ‘painful’ hunger strike

Mohammed Abu Sakha, held without charge or trial by Israel, is one of 1500 prisoners on a mass hunger strike.

A convoy of buses drives into the besieged oppositon-held town of Zabadani in preparation for the town's "evacuation", April 12, 2017. (AFP)

April 13th, 2017 - 10:34 GMT

‘I felt that my soul would leave me’: Evacuation feels more like eviction for Syrians

Libyan Holocaust survivors returning to the country from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945. (Yad Vashem)

April 11th, 2017 - 12:03 GMT

On Passover, remembering these three Arab Jewish communities

Palestinian government employees protests cuts to their salaries in Gaza City, 8 April 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

April 10th, 2017 - 10:01 GMT

'Even before the money wasn't enough': Palestinian government employees suffer pay cuts in Gaza

Hamas police escort an ambulance that was reported to be carrying the bodies of three men executed for "collaboration" with Israel, Gaza City, 6 April 2017. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

April 6th, 2017 - 02:13 GMT

Hamas executed three 'collaborators' today - but can we be sure they were guilty?

A child killed in the chemical attack in Idlib at a hospital in Khan Sheikhun, Syria. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

April 5th, 2017 - 02:19 GMT

After Idlib chemical attack, four pro-Assad talking points to be wary of