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Israeli forces raid al-Shifa hospital; U.S. confirms death of Marwan Issa

Israeli forces raid al-Shifa hospital; U.S. confirms death of Marwan Issa

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JERUSALEM — Israel’s army said Monday it had killed a Hamas official inside Gaza City’s al-Shifa medical complex, an operation that unfolded as experts warned that the northern part of the enclave may already be in the grip of famine. The White House, meanwhile, confirmed that Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing, was killed in an Israeli strike earlier this month in central Gaza. The highest-ranking militant commander to be killed in more than five months of war, Issa was believed by Israel to have played a central role in Hamas’s day-to-day military operations and to have helped plan its attack on Oct. 7. “The rest of the top leaders are in hiding, likely deep in the Hamas tunnel network,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Monday. “And justice will come for them, too.” The news of Issa’s death was overshadowed by the operation at al-Shifa — the latest Israeli attack on hospitals, which the Israel Defense Forces has said are used by Hamas as a cover for military activities. The …

Hamas’s top leaders include Yehiya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Marwan Issa

Hamas’s top leaders include Yehiya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Marwan Issa

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Marwan Issa, deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing and the right-hand man to Deif, is believed to run many of Hamas’s day-to-day operations, said Daniel Byman, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. With Deif spending much of his life incognito, Issa helps run logistical operations for the al-Qassem Brigades. Israel considers Issa a very significant threat, Byman said. Source link

‘The most popular Palestinian leader alive’: Releasing Marwan Barghouti could transform territories’ politics | Israel-Gaza war

‘The most popular Palestinian leader alive’: Releasing Marwan Barghouti could transform territories’ politics | Israel-Gaza war

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At times of great upheaval in Palestine, people start to talk about Marwan Barghouti. The 64-year-old political leader serving multiple life sentences in an Israeli prison for murder represents the prospect of a genuine shake-up to the status quo. Palestinian towns – and the Israeli-built concrete walls that cut them up – are covered in graffitied images of Barghouti, his handcuffed hands held high above his head. Virtually every opinion poll since his imprisonment two decades ago shows Barghouti to be the favourite presidential candidate for the Palestinian people, were they able to hold free elections. A December survey showed him 40 points ahead of the deeply unpopular current leader Mahmoud Abbas but also beating Hamas candidates, including the Islamist militant group’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh. With Palestinian factions deeply divided, Barghouti operates in a middle ground – respected by secular nationalists but also Islamists, many of whom he formed close relationships with in jail. Even Hamas, which despises the western-friendly circles that he is part of, has called for his release as part of …

How Dubai wants to be the center for games and esports | Marwan Al Zarouni interview

How Dubai wants to be the center for games and esports | Marwan Al Zarouni interview

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Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  A quick quiz. What place in the world has a 10-year plan for esports? If you answered the United Arab Emirates and Dubai in particular, you would be right. Such visions aren’t new to this place. Dubai started as a fishing village in the 18th century. It got its first airport in 1960 and it started dredging its port in 1963. Dubai publicist Tony Lewis remembers coming over to visit when the first golf course was just a dream back in the 1980s. The sheikh at the time decided a grass golf course in the sands would attract business tourists. With the approval of the royal family, the course was built in 1988, and it was the beginning of a vision to turn Dubai into a tourist destination. Now it has a giant luxury shopping mall, the tallest building in the world — and a fledgling game and esports industry. I attended …

The Man Working to Keep the Water On in Gaza

The Man Working to Keep the Water On in Gaza

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Numbers are one way to make the destruction of war legible: number of hostages, number of children killed, number of buildings destroyed, number of aid trucks that made it across the Egyptian border. For Marwan Bardawil, who lives in Gaza, the unit of peril he tracks is cubic meters per hour. Bardawil is a water engineer with the Palestinian Water Authority overseeing Gaza. And these days he is measuring, in cubic meters per hour, the quantity of water flowing through the pipes that, in prewar time, carried 10 percent of Gazans’ drinking water—pipes that are controlled by Israel. Right now, with other water sources dwindling, those pipes are Gaza’s lifeline. “The people are really in need of each drop of water,” he told me. For the past week, I’ve been checking in with Bardawil every day as he struggles to find clean sources of water. (You can hear our phone conversations on this week’s episode of Radio Atlantic). In the best of times, Bardawil’s job is difficult. Gaza sits between a desert and the Mediterranean …