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      Mina Aldroubi

      Mina Aldroubi

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      Mina joined The National in June 2017 after six years of working for news outlets in London. From 2011 to 2016, she worked as a London reporter for Asharq Al Awsat. She has conducted several high-profile interviews, including with London Mayor Saddiq Khan. She graduated in International Politics from City University and received her master’s degree in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Mina was born in Baghdad, and raised in Amman and London.
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      The Israeli army operating in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 8. AFP
      Dozens killed as Israel expands assault on Rafah

      People were forced to leave their homes as bombing and shelling continued

      MENAMay 09, 2024
      Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, seen here during the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, has another film screening at the festival this year. AFP
      Iranian filmmaker Rasoulof sentenced to eight years in prison

      Court convicts prominent director of 'crimes against national security'

      MENAMay 09, 2024
      Lorries carrying aid for Gaza wait to enter through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt. Reuters
      Closure of Rafah crossing raises famine risk in Gaza

      UNRWA sounds alarm after entry of aid lorries halted because of presence of Israeli forces

      MENAMay 07, 2024
      Palestinians hold leaflets dropped from planes that ordered them to leave eastern Rafah before an Israeli military operation. AP
      Play14:56:21
      Rafah residents in despair after Israel orders them to leave

      Israeli military told people in eastern Rafah to move west ahead of operations against militants in the area

      MENAMay 06, 2024
      Ahmed Samour, a 14-year-old boy in Gaza, who has been seriously injured by explosives hidden inside a perfume bottle. Photo: Rakan Abed El Rahman / The National
      Play36:09:14
      Gaza teenager loses fingers due to explosives hidden in bottle

      The UN Mine Action Service has warned that debris in the Strip contains unexploded ordnance

      MENAMay 04, 2024
      Palestinians work on the remains of a building destroyed during the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas-led militants, in Gaza city in April 2016. AFP
      Gaza's reconstruction will cost nearly $40bn, UN official says

      Development Programme faced with donor hesitancy amid ceasefire uncertainty

      MENAMay 02, 2024
      What is thought to be the French Navy's FS Jacques Chevalier heads towards the Bab Al Mandeb in Tadjoura, Djibouti. Getty Images
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      Group warns against any attempt to undermine its rule

      MENAMay 01, 2024
      A woman carries a picture of Nika Shakarami at a rally in Melbourne marking the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death in custody of Iran's morality police. EPA
      Iranian teenager was 'assaulted and killed by security forces'

      Nika Shakarami, 16, disappeared after attending an anti-government protest in Tehran in 2022

      MENAApril 30, 2024
      Fabrizio Carboni, regional director of the International Committee of the Red Cross, says civilians must be protected in the Israel-Gaza war. Pawan Singh / The National
      ExclusiveNo alternative to international law in Gaza, says ICRC regional chief

      Farbizio Carboni warns law of war must be followed to avoid endless bloodshed

      MENAApril 24, 2024
      Major General Aharon Haliva. Photo: Israel army
      Israeli army intelligence chief resigns over October 7 failures

      Maj Gen Aharon Haliva is the first senior Israeli official to step down since the attack

      MENAApril 22, 2024
      A protester waves the flag of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, outside the US embassy in Baghdad. Reuters
      Iraqi militias resume attacks on US forces

      American base in Syria hit by at least five rockets launched from Iraq

      MENAApril 22, 2024
      The UAE distributes aid across Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis on April 19.
      Play25:24:37
      UAE aid reaches Khan Younis as businesses reopen in parts of Gaza

      Civilians return to find homes devastated by months of war

      MENAApril 19, 2024
      Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a War Cabinet meeting at the Kirya in Tel Aviv. AFP
      Play20:11:44
      Israel's response to shape aftermath of Iran's first direct attack

      A new chapter in the confrontation between the two countries has begun

      MENAApril 14, 2024
      Palestinian children wait to collect food rations from a charity kitchen in Deir Al Balah, amid the continuing war in Gaza. Bloomberg
      What is a famine? How the UN measures lack of food in Gaza and elsewhere

      Five-stage scale is used to assess level of food insecurity and starvation

      MENAApril 12, 2024
      A man mourns as the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli airs strike on the house in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza are city brought to the morgue of Al Ahli Baptist Hospital on Friday. Anadolu via Getty Images
      Israeli strike on Gaza city home kills 25 members of one family

      Victims described by neighbour as ‘normal people who didn’t belong to any resistance activities’

      MENAApril 12, 2024
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