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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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Sharon Lifschitz, left, and Noam Sagi during a press conference of British children of Israeli hostages. AFP
'See the human within each of us': Emotional appeal for hostages' release

Noam Sagi and Sharon Lifschitz’s parents were abducted when the militants stormed the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza border

Palestine-IsraelOctober 12, 2023
Police detain a man with a Palestinian flag at a vigil for Israel held in Manchester. Reuters
London police reject Home Secretary's Palestinian flag ban

Suella Braverman wrote to UK forces suggesting waving the flag could be seen as 'glorifying terrorism'

Palestine-IsraelOctober 12, 2023
Buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza City. AFP
Can Gaza's humanitarian corridors provide escape route?

The Israeli-Gaza war has revived the question of Palestinian displacement, as many call for an evacuation of the territory

WorldOctober 11, 2023
People demonstrate in support of Palestine at the Israeli embassy in London. Getty Images
Backlash at warning Palestinian flag protests in Britain may be illegitimate

Songs, banners and other elements of protest could cross the line into 'hatred', Home Secretary has said

UKOctober 10, 2023
People carry a Palestinian flag near the Israeli embassy in London. Getty Images
Londoners rally for Israel and Palestine, revealing deep divisions

More than 2,500 people attended a vigil for Israel outside Downing Street, while others marched in solidarity with Palestine

UKOctober 09, 2023
Rockets were launched by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip towards Israel on Saturday. AP
There is no military solution to Israel's conflict with Gaza, experts warn

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered an 'extensive mobilisation' of reservists

WorldOctober 07, 2023
A man runs on a road as fire burns after rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, Israel October 7, 2023. REUTERS / Amir Cohen
Hamas launches biggest attack on Israel in years

Palestinian militant group says it has begun 'Operation Al Aqsa Flood' as Israel retaliates

MENAOctober 07, 2023
Rana Hajirasouli speaks during the One Young World Summit 2023 in Belfast. PA
UAE net-zero champion looks to reduce UK waste

Start-up founder living in Dubai has stopped 1 million kilograms of waste from going to landfills in one year

UKOctober 07, 2023
Genomics research at the Royal Marsden, a specialist cancer care hospital in London. Photo: Royal Marsden Hospital
EXCLUSIVECancer breakthrough offered to target threat to Gulf women

Royal Marsden Hospital has developed genetic profiling for endometrial cancer, marking new phase in treating 'neglected' disease

HealthSeptember 27, 2023
The Azzaz Specialty Psychiatric Hospital is the only such hospital serving a population of 4 million in north-western Syria. Photo: MedGlobal
EXCLUSIVESyrian drugs use almost triples since civil war began in 2011

Report will shed light on the little-known but devastating effects of Captagon and opiates among communities

WorldSeptember 26, 2023
The Agricultural Co-operative of Rovies in the north of Evia. Lemma Shehadi / The National
Storm Daniel's flash floods and wildfires change Greece's islands for all time

As the Greek government reels from a summer of deadly wildfires and catastrophic rains, rural communities on the island of Evia say their future is uncertain.

WeekendSeptember 22, 2023
British-American citizen Morad Tahbaz with American Emad Shargi land in the US after a prisoner swap deal with Iran. AP
Morad Tahbaz hits out at UK leaders for abandoning him last year

British-American citizen freed in this week's prisoner exchange between the US and Iran was left behind last year during Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release

UKSeptember 20, 2023
A member of Finance Crimes Squad displays confiscated Captagon pills in Athens. Greece is among seven EU countries to report activities related to the amphetamine. AP
Captagon produced 'on demand' in Netherlands for Middle East export

EU countries are increasingly used as trans-shipment points for Captagon smuggling to avoid detection, report finds

EuropeSeptember 13, 2023
Yemeni security forces take part in a military parade in the city of Taiz. AFP
EXCLUSIVELet's save Yemen for all of us, says former foreign minister

Abu Bakr Al Qirbi tells The National that comprehensive peace would unify country and end terrorism

UKSeptember 07, 2023
French Education Minister Gabriel Attal, second right, with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, centre, at the Simone-Veil secondary school in Liffre, north-western France, on Monday. AFP
French schools monitored as abaya ban enforced on first day back

Education Minister Gabriel Attal says 513 schools could be affected

EuropeSeptember 04, 2023
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