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Lemma Shehadi

Lemma Shehadi

Senior Correspondent
London
Lemma Shehadi covers stories of Middle East interest in the UK. She has reported from the Middle East, Europe and South Asia. She won The Independent’s Rupert Cornwell Prize for foreign journalism to write a series on the Yazidis of Iraq and the Caucasus in 2019. She was a One World Media Fellow 2022, looking at the impact of wildfires and reforestation in the marginalized north of Lebanon.
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Talia, a British Palestinian girl calls for a Palestinian visa scheme at an event in the House of Lords on Wednesday. More than 300 British-Palestinian families are petitioning their MPs and the Home Office to set up a scheme that would allow their relatives in Gaza to stay in the UK while the war continues. Photo: Farrukh Younus / @implausibleblog
British Palestinians want visa scheme for relatives in Gaza

With Israeli plans to invade Gaza's last place of refuge, families are stepping up their campaign to save trapped relatives

UKFebruary 29, 2024
A Palestinian boy carries a water container amid the rubble of houses destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
Palestinian UK envoy Zomlot says new technocrat government to draw on Hamas talks

Palestinian leaders seek to govern Gaza and all occupied territories after the war

Palestine-IsraelFebruary 27, 2024
Houthi supporters shout slogans while holding up weapons during a protest against the US and Israel and in support of Palestinians, in Sana'a, Yemen, 23 February 2024. EPA
More than half of UK shipping exporters disrupted by Red Sea crisis

Cost of hiring containers has soared by up to 300 per cent since Yemeni Houthi rebels began attacking commercial vessels in international waterway, UK businesses say

UKFebruary 25, 2024
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London on February 25. PA
Dowden blames Islamist threats for Gaza vote chaos in parliament

Oliver Dowden declines to say if he considers Lee Anderson's remarks about Sadiq Khan to be Islamophobic

UKFebruary 25, 2024
Eli Lew - a patient who was treated at the Cleveland Clinic for a brain injury after a skiing accident - during and after his recovery. Photo: Eli Lew
Cleveland Clinic London's three Rs for recovery from brain and spinal cord injury

Eli Lew describes his recovery at the clinic after a skiing accident that could have left him paralysed

UKFebruary 23, 2024
The Prince of Wales with Chairwoman Liz Padmore and Beatrice Butsana-Sita, British Red Cross Chief Executive, during a visit to the British Red Cross at its headquarters in central London. PA
Prince William calls for end to Israel-Gaza conflict in rare statement

Heir to the UK throne expressed his concern about the 'terrible human cost' of the war

Palestine-IsraelFebruary 20, 2024
Members of the Palestinian civil defence extinguish a fire in a building following Israeli bombardments east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024. AFP
UK charities urge MPs to back motion for immediate Gaza ceasefire

Closed-doors diplomacy is 'not enough' for British campaigners before Wednesday's parliamentary vote on Gaza

UKFebruary 19, 2024
Activists during a protest in Malta. Reuters
Omani minister seeks urgent conference to recognise Palestine

Western powers must drop their binary understanding of the conflict and involve Hamas in peace talks, Sayyid Badr Al Busaidi says

UKFebruary 16, 2024
Dr Ahmed Sherif, an NHS intensive care paediatrician. Dr Ahmed Sherif
Egyptian doctors propping up the NHS see opportunity and struggles

One in five healthcare workers in the UK's NHS are from overseas, the highest percentage on record

HealthFebruary 15, 2024
A Palestinian at Nasser Hospital holds a child wounded in an Israeli strike. Reuters
No hope for UK stance on Gaza, British surgeon says

A medic who volunteered to help the wounded in the enclave is frustrated by his government's response to the conflict

UKFebruary 14, 2024
Students hold up placards during a demonstration as they walk out of Schools and Universities to demand for the end of bombing of Gaza, in London. AP
School tensions on Gaza-Israel as pupils say subject is 'taboo'

Schools are faced with strike demands for the war to be acknowledged not suppressed

UKFebruary 08, 2024
Yemenis displaced by conflict receive food aid and supplies at a camp in Al Khoukha directorate, Hodeidah, in October 2022. AFP
Yemen aid fears as Houthi punishment looms

Conservative MP Flick Drummond fears the effects that escalations in the Red Sea could have on humanitarian assistance

UKJanuary 24, 2024
Alexander De Croo, Belgium's Prime Minister, and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at 10 Downing Street in London on Tuesday. EPA
Belgium warns of risk to EU reputation over war 'double standard'

Prime Minister says now is the time to discuss a two-state solution

UKJanuary 24, 2024
A makeshift camp in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt. AFP
Handful of Israeli politicians sabotage peace process, says Jordan's PM

A serious commitment to a two-state solution is needed for Arab states to endorse a plan for Gaza after the war

UKJanuary 19, 2024
Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 16, 2024. REUTERS / Saleh Salem
Starvation and disease in Gaza a weapon of war, Palestinian diplomat says

Israel's war the 'biggest stress test' for the international order, Palestinian ambassador to UK says

Palestine-IsraelJanuary 16, 2024
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