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Ahmad Melhem

Ahmad Melhem

Feb 16, 2021

Hadi, the father of Mohammad one of the four victims of the extended Bakr family gather at their house in al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on February 7, 2021, surrounded by posters in memory of four children who were killed while playing on the beach during the 2014 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. - The International Criminal Court's ruling that it has jurisdiction over the situation in the Palestinian territories opens the way to it investigating alleged war crimes committed in the 2014 Israeli-Pa — Hadi, the father of Mohammad, one of the four victims of the extended Bakr family, gather at their house in al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on Feb. 7, 2021, surrounded by posters in memory of four children who were killed while playing on the beach during the 2014 Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. — MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires towards the southern Gaza in this August 1, 2014 file photo. The July-August war in Gaza drew international condemnation for a number of reasons, but one episode proved more deadly than any other: an Israeli air and artillery bombardment on Aug. 1 that killed 150 people in a matter of hours.The events unfolded just as a three-day ceasefire was supposed to come into force. Hamas militants emerged from a tunnel inside Gaza and ambushed three Israeli soldiers, killing two

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Ahmad Melhem

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Palestinians appeal for help as bloodshed continues in Gaza Strip

Entsar Abu Jahal

Entsar Abu Jahal

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 06: U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference at the Washington Convention Center March 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. With thousands of delegates and attendees, the annual AIPAC conference is the largest gathering of the pro-Israel movement in the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

PA vows to sue US ambassador over support to Israeli settlements

Ahmad Melhem

In Ramallah, reporting on politics

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki (2nd R) speaks to the media as he leaves the International Criminal Court after his visit, at the Hague August 5, 2014. Al-Malki said on Tuesday after meeting prosecutors at the International Criminal Court that there was "clear evidence" that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza. The visit took place shortly after Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement entered a 72-hour truce mediated by Egypt in an effort to pave the way for an extended ceasefire. Israel and the P

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Daoud Kuttab

In Amman, reporting on Palestinian politics