Moushira Khattab has stepped down as president of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) as she intends to pursue a role at an international institution, the council announced on Sunday. Former ...

Urgent appeals have mounted in the last hours for the immediate release of detained activist and writer, Alaa Abd El Fattah, as his mother Laila Soueif lies in hospital in London, 245 days into a ...

Around 100 aid trucks carrying flour meant to be delivered to families were looted on Friday shortly after crossing into southern Gaza. Eighty truck drivers were injured to varying degrees, Nahed ...

During a meeting with the families of Israeli prisoners in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel will accept a new ceasefire proposal put forward by the United States’ ...

Israel has allowed aid trucks to enter Gaza City for the first time in nearly three months, according to Nahed Shehaibar, head of the Private Transport Association, which provided trucks for the ...

Thousands of Palestinians queued in the heat on Tuesday at an Israeli-controlled enclosure in Rafah, southern Gaza, hoping to pick up supplies they have been deprived of for nearly three months. They ...

The government temporarily reduced natural gas supplies to state-owned petrochemical plants, particularly fertilizer producers, by around 50 percent starting May 17, according to seven sources who ...

The imprisonment of writer and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah is arbitrary and illegal, a United Nations expert panel has ruled. In a press release published Wednesday the group called on Egypt to carry ...

A naval court in Greece has referred 17 members of the country’s coast guard to criminal investigation for causing the deaths of 82 people whose bodies were recovered, two years after one of the ...

Israel did not allow aid supplies to enter northern Gaza on Thursday, according to two aid distribution sources in the strip who spoke to Mada Masr. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the ...

Fishers at Lake Bardawil were allowed to resume work on Friday, a week after the lake’s administration — under the military-run Egypt’s Future for Sustainable Development Agency — suspended fishing ...

A woman with gray hair steadily walks toward the gate as if on a mission or path she set for herself. She moves with an unstoppable force that acquires its own momentum, splitting the air around her ...