The combined death toll in Syria and Turkey (as of 20 February) is now over 46,000 according to official figures. Thousands more have been injured, and thousands of people have been left without shelter in freezing conditions. The aid effort is increasingly moving aware from search and rescue and towards shelter for the hundreds of thousands of homeless. Seven people were rescued eight days after the earthquakes.
Two weeks after the earthquakes, Chris Doyle discusses the implications and what needs to be done in Syria on TRT (21 February 2023) arguing that we have to reexamine the model of how aid goes into Syria.
World must find the courage to help the Syrian people - Article in Arab News by Chris Doyle, 20 February 2023
Over 70 UK Parliamentarians from all political parties, Members of Parliament and Members of the House of Lords, have written to the Foreign Secretary Rt. Hon James Cleverly MP, condemning Israeli plans to forcibly evict and forcibly displace over 1,000 Palestinians in Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, and calling for UK action to stop these plans. The forcible transfer of protected persons in occupied territory constitutes a war crime.
Caabu invites you to an online book launch: Stranger In My Own Land: Palestine, Israel, and One Family's Story of Home, with Fida Jiryis, who will discuss her new book, Stranger In My Own Land: Palestine, Israel, and One Family's S
European parliamentarians (from national parliaments and Members of the European Parliament), have written to nine European Union Foreign Ministers, and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borell, about the formation of the new Israeli coalition government and the threatened plans which effectively amount to annexation of occupied Palestinian territory. This letter mentions specifically the intentions of the new Israeli government to forcibly evict and dispossess over 1,000 P
Caabu Press Release: Caabu Director slams the British government for turning blind eye to racist positions of new Israeli government
12 January 2023
The winners and losers of any Turkiye-Syria rapprochement - article in Arab News by Chris Doyle, 2 January 2023
UK Parliamentarians have written to the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Rt Hon. James Cleverly MP demanding consequences for the annexationist policies of the new Israeli Government, which includes in it two explicitly and violently anti-Palestinian racists and Jewish supremacists, in Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.
