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As Sisi vows to leave power by 2030, sources differ on whether he really means it
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Police Academy’s graduation ceremony, October 15. Courtesy: The Presidency.
Sheikh Zuwayed parents detained after protesting for right to education as school reconstruction stalls in North Sinai
Still from footage circulated online showing residents demonstrating outside the ruins of the local school in Nakhlat, North Sinai. Four people are being held in remand following a series of arrests targeting parents who held a demonstration in the Nakhlat rural settlement to demand the reopening of the local school, as well as individuals who shared footage of the protest online, according to statements published by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights this week.
Iran under attack: Steadfastness, nostalgia and human shields
Almost two weeks have passed since the US-Israel war on Iran started, following weeks of anticipation. The earliest wave of attacks killed senior Iranian officials, the most prominent being the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Amidst speculations about regime weakening, the day after showed that the Islamic Republic held itself together, while also retaliating, hard.
Pro-Palestine student fears his expulsion is retaliatory
EGYPT Student activist Hossam Mahmoud was expelled in September from his mass communication course at Egypt’s Cairo University and prohibited from re-enrolling, in a move he fears is in retaliation for his political organising on campus, writes Ahmed Bakr for Mada Masr. The university said the expulsion was the result of a technical error it plans to correct.
Govt raises fuel prices by LE2, natural gas for vehicles up 43%
The government raised fuel prices on Friday, increasing the cost of gasoline and diesel by LE2 per liter and natural gas for vehicles by LE3. A Petroleum Ministry statement issued with the repricing decision on Friday said prices will remain fixed for at least one year. Diesel is now priced at LE17.5 per liter, 80 octane gasoline at LE17.75 per liter, 92 octane at LE19.25 per liter, and 95 octane at LE21 per liter.
Unnamed investor buys out workers’ stake in tobacco giant Eastern Company after monthslong conflict
Share-holding workers at partially state-owned tobacco firm Eastern Company were bought out on Thursday following months of conflict over the sale. The bid accepted by the share-holding workers’ union for over five percent of the company was submitted by EFG Hermes Investment Banking on behalf of an undisclosed client, according to two sources, one of whom is a member of the union’s board.
Famine officially declared in Gaza City, where 1 million people live
At least thirty percent of the Gaza Strip’s population are enduring famine, the global authority on food insecurity concluded on Friday. This marks the first international recognition that indicators in Gaza represent those associated with the most severe classification of food insecurity since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged enclave.
State budget passes even as MPs malign steep debt service bill
The House of Representatives gave final approval on Tuesday the state budget and economic and social development plan for fiscal year 2025/2026, along with the budgets of 63 public economic entities. According to the Planning and Budget Committee’s report, cited by the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper, 41 of these entities are projected to turn a profit under the new budget, while 16 are expected to incur losses.
Egypt deports more Global March to Gaza participants
Egyptian authorities continued on Friday to deport several international activists taking part in the Global March to Gaza, including foreign individuals who had entered the country via Cairo International Airport the previous day. Deportations took place as activists attempted to travel toward the city of Ismailia from various locations across central Cairo.
Laila Soueif hospitalized amid hunger strike for her son’s release
Laila Soueif was admitted to St. Thomas’s Hospital in central London on Thursday night as her health deteriorated due to the hunger strike she has been on for over 200 days to call for her son’s release from prison. Activist and writer Alaa Abd El Fattah has been in prison since 2019, in what United Nations experts ruled earlier this week is arbitrary detention by Egyptian authorities.
Israel opens fire on aid seekers as Gaza Humanitarian Foundation assumes new aid distribution role
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.
‘Voluntary’ emigration of hundreds from Gaza to Germany, France kicks off under ‘family reunification’ scheme
Hundreds of Palestinians have been allowed to emigrate from Gaza to France and Germany in recent weeks under a “family reunification scheme,” two people who emigrated and an Egyptian official briefed on the arrangements told Mada Masr. The number of emigration caravans and the total number of people who have left in recent weeks is not clear. However, according to the Egyptian official, 500 Palestinians were allowed to leave to Germany in recent weeks.
Leaked: US expects ‘return’ from Egypt after bombing Yemen to secure Suez shipping
The United States aims to extract compensation from Egypt in exchange for restoring commercial shipping access in the Red Sea, according to leaked text messages between senior US administration officials coordinating the recent American airstrikes on Yemen. The messages were sent on an encrypted messaging application in a group to which Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, was added — apparently by accident.
Israel refuses to release over 600 Palestinians, delaying exchange deal
Israelreneged on its scheduled release of over 600 Palestinians from its prisons on Saturday as part of its ongoing prisoner exchange deal with Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office attributed the violation of the deal’s terms to its displeasure with the media display surrounding Hamas’s delivery of prisoners it has held in the Gaza Strip since 2023.
Sisi, King Abdullah II stress urgent need for Gaza reconstruction without displacement of Palestinians
In a phone call on Wednesday evening, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II agreed on the need for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip to begin immediately and without displacing the enclave’s Palestinian residents, according to a statement by the spokesperson of the Egyptian Presidency.
IMF spokesperson says board to consider more Egypt financing, asserting ‘no connection’ to developments in Gaza
Egypt could receive additional financing from the International Monetary Fund over the coming weeks, IMF Spokesperson Julie Kozack told journalists on Thursday evening. Cairo is already receiving financing from the international lender under an agreement penned in 2022 that was augmented to a total of US$8 billion last year. The IMF signalled at the time of the program increase that the additional funds were needed in light of the economic repercussions Israel’s war on Gaza has had on Egypt.
Politicians call on Sisi to release Alaa Abd El Fattah
A group of politicians, party representatives and public figures have called on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to release detained activist, writer and software developer Alaa Abd El Fattah. The group launched their appeal on Monday at the home of academic and activist Laila Soueif, who has been on hunger strike for 127 days to demand the release of her son. During the conference, which Mada Masr attended, attendees signed a statement recited by the family’s lawyer, Khaled Ali.
Thousands demonstrate in Rafah in support of Sisi’s position against forcibly displacing Palestinians
Thousands of people were transported across the country to Rafah on Friday to join organized demonstrations in opposition to the forced displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip into Egypt and support of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi..
Authorities interrogated Hossam Bahgat after EIPR report on prison hunger strike, says lawyer
The Supreme State Security Prosecution released Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), from its headquarters on Sunday evening, setting bail at LE20,000, according to his lawyer, Huda Nasrallah. Bahgat was interrogated on charges of aiding and abetting a terrorist organization, funding terrorism, and broadcasting false news.
Hamas-Israel truce agreement takes effect after 2-hour delay, 10 killed
Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire killed ten Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning before the truce between Israel and Hamas finally came into force at 11:15 am, a few hours later than planned. The halt to hostilities marks an end to a year and nearly four months of the most brutal aggression the coastal enclave has ever witnessed.
Hossam Bahgat summoned to Supreme State Security Prosecution on Sunday
Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), has been summoned to appear before the Supreme State Security Prosecution on Sunday, January 19, EIPR said on Wednesday. The text of the summons, which EIPR said was handed to Bahgat at his workplace, did not specify the nature of the charges against him nor the subject of the investigation.
All parties announce Gaza ceasefire except Israel
A year and three months after operation Al-Aqsa Flood flung the region into a war that has changed everything, Hamas and the three mediating countries announced on Wednesday that they had reached a truce agreement to put an end to hostilities. Israel is yet to announce that it has agreed to the deal. It took mediators and the parties 15 months, the killing of 46,707 Palestinians, the injury of over 110,000, and the comprehensive flattening of the Gaza Strip to conclude a truce deal.
Congress holds US$95 million in military aid from Egypt on basis of rights concerns
Last year, the United States Congress blocked the payout of a US$95 million portion of the US annual military aid budget to Egypt, because the latter did not meet the rights standards on which the financing is conditioned, according to two American sources close to Congress and the State Department who spoke to Mada Masr on condition of anonymity. The blocked sum is likely that which the US has reportedly diverted from Egypt to payout as military aid to Lebanon, said the source close to Congress.
EU based 1 billion euro payout to Egypt on ‘credible steps’ regarding human rights, democracy
The European Commission said that it found Egypt took “concrete and credible steps” with regard to respecting effective democratic mechanisms, human rights and the rule of law, in an assessment document, viewed by Mada Masr, that endorsed the transfer of 1 billion euros in economic assistance to Egypt at the end of last year.
Advertising magnate Tarek Nour named head of UMS
After months of talk about a shakeup in the management of Egypt’s media landscape, advertising magnate Tarek Nour was announced as the new head of United Media Services, the state-managed media conglomerate announced on Tuesday.
66 killed in airstrike on residential block near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia
At least 66 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were killed, and around 100 were injured in the early hours of Thursday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential block near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, according to the Palestinian News and Information Agency (Wafa).
IMF concludes Cairo visit without concluding review, noting ‘fiscal pressure’ of refugees, geopolitical tensions
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Egypt Mission Chief Ivanna Hollar announced on Wednesday the conclusion of two weeks of discussion in Cairo. According to the IMF’s statement, Egypt and the fund’s staff made “substantial progress in policy discussions.” So far, however, there was no mention of reaching a staff-level agreement on whether Egypt passed the review.
Student source: University union elections cater only to Students for Egypt
The nomination process for this year’s student union elections at Egyptian universities began on Thursday. Students have complained of what they described as “official intransigence,” procedural irregularities that they say aim to prevent candidates from running and provide the upper hand to Students for Egypt, a government-supported student group with a widespread presence across campuses.
Israel strikes central Beirut, killing Hezbollah media relations head amid intensive raids on Beirut’s suburbs, south Lebanon
Shortly before 2 pm on Sunday, Israel launched an airstrike without warning on the headquarters of the Syrian Arab Socialist Baath Party in Ras al-Nabaa, a crowded area of central Beirut. The Lebanese Health Ministry said in an initial casualty count that one person was killed and three people were injured in the strike on the multi-story building while search and rescue operations were ongoing.
Israel kills 18 civil defense workers in targeted strikes on Baalbek, Nabatieh | Evacuation orders, bombing continues in Beirut’s Ghobeiry | Israeli attack on family home in Baalbek kills 8
Israel continued to pummel Beirut on Friday, launching airstrikes on Borj al-Barajneh and on Ghobeiry. The attacks come after four consecutive days of heavy airstrikes on Beirut’s southwestern suburbs, triggering another wave of displacement from the area, once home to hundreds of thousands of Lebanese residents. The day before, Israel had targeted the still-crowded Chiyah area with four airstrikes.
Competition regulator approves ADQ’s acquisition of stakes in 3 state-owned petroleum companies
The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) approved on Monday Abu Dhabi Development Holding Company (ADQ)’s acquisition of large stakes in three Egyptian petroleum firms, more than a year after the government’s announcement of the deal. The Emirati firm is to acquire a 25 percent share in the Egyptian Drilling Company, a 30 percent share of the Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (ETHYDCO) and 35 percent in the Egyptian Drilling Company and Egyptian Linear Alkyl Benzene Company (ELAB).
After targeted surveillance, car theft, journalist Rasha Azab awaits authorities’ response
Journalist Rasha Azab has accused the interior minister and the head of the National Security Agency of orchestrating recent threats against her and surveilling her movements, part of a pursuit that culminated in the theft of her car in recent days. Azab’s car was stolen from a site in Zamalek, Cairo, near the Spanish ambassador’s house and the Chinese Embassy, the journalist said in a statement about the incident she posted online on November 7.
State Security Prosecution releases activist Ahmed Douma on LE20,000 bail
The Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered on Sunday night the release of Ahmed Douma on LE20,000 bail after the activist spent hours facing questioning on false news charges. Douma was released shortly afterward. He was summoned for questioning after he made statements on social media about a ship which was allegedly carrying weapons bound for Israel, and which was said to have docked in Alexandria’s port.
14 Israeli airstrikes on Beirut overnight | 7 killed, 46 injured in night of attacks on Sur | UNIFIL: Israel destroyed part of Naqoura post
Beitrut witnessed another night of heavy Israeli bombing on Friday, with at least 14 airstrikes targeting different areas in the Lebanese capital’s southern suburb. The strikes repeatedly targeted the Hadath, Haret Hreik and Bourj al-Barajneh areas in the southern suburb after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders to residents surrounding certain buildings in these areas, which it claimed were Hezbollah facilities. Israeli airstrikes also continued in southern Lebanon on Friday night.
Students awaiting visas to study in Egypt protest delay
SUDAN Dozens of Sudanese students gathered outside the Egyptian Consulate in Port Sudan on Tuesday 5 November to call for the issuance of study visas that would allow them entry into Egypt, and for which the students have applied and paid, writes Moataz Hagag for Mada Masr. The consul had failed to respond to letters in which the students sought clarification regarding their application status, according to students who participated in the protest and who shared their stories with .
srael kills 40, destroys heritage site in night raids on Baalbek, Beqaa | Bombardment of Beirut nears international airport | Israeli airstrike on Saida road kills 3, injures 5 UNIFIL troops | Heads of Amal Movement, Hezbollah on US elections
Israel launched a series of raids starting on Wednesday afternoon continuing into the early hours of Thursday targeting areas in the city of Baalbek and other towns and villages across the Baalbek-Hermel governorate and central Bekaa Valley, killing over 40 people, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
Guterres: Number of journalists killed in Gaza unseen in any conflict | UN officials call for protection of civilians, urge Israel to stop attacks on humanitarian workers
An Israeli airstrike killed Palestinian photojournalist Bilal Mohamed Rajab, the Gaza-based government media office reported on Friday, raising the death toll of Palestinian journalists killed in Israel’s war in Gaza to 183.
Dozens killed in Israeli targeting of Sur, Baalbek | Israeli military kidnaps Lebanese man from Batroun | 19 injured in Hezbollah rocket attack on central Israel
An Israeli drone fired a missile targeting the town of Zutar in Lebanon’s southern city of Nabatieh, while air raids targeted the towns Numeiriya and Rumin on Saturday, continuing in Khiam. Israeli aircrafts also launched heavy raids on the villages of Yater, Kafara, the town of Siddiqin, the outskirts of the Rashkananiya in the south on Saturday, as well as the outskirts of the Qana village.
Intense Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, Dahiyeh | Reuters: US asks Lebanon to declare unilateral ceasefire
Israel launched heavy airstrikes on areas in southern Lebanon and Beirut’s Dahiyeh from Thursday evening until the early hours of Friday, issuing evacuation orders for residents in both regions as the Israeli onslaught on Lebanon enters its second month. According to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), Israel launched massive air attacks in the early hours of Friday that targeted the towns of Kounine, Aynata, Jmaijmeh, Baraachit, Hanine, Majdal Selm, Bint Jbeil and Tairi.
Why Ohio’s anti-gerrymandering Issue 1 is an LGBTQ+ rights issue
This story is published in partnership with the Queer News Network, a collaboration among 11 LGBTQ+ newsrooms to cover down ballot elections across 10 states. Read more about the Queer News Network here. Gerrymandering — a mapping and redistricting practice done oftentimes for the benefit of certain political parties — is on the ballot this year in Ohio, which happens to also be one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation, according to a report by the League of Women Voters of Ohio.
Civil defense workers in northern Gaza out of service, unable to reach site of major airstrike
Israel’s bombardment of 11 residential buildings in Jabalia camp is thought to have killed over 100 people on Thursday, Gaza’s Palestinian civil defense authority said in a statement. Civil defense workers said they were unable to reach the site, after the authority announced on Wednesday that it was suspending its services due to its inability to continue providing them after 20 consecutive days of Israeli aggression on the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Three journalists killed by Israeli airstrike on accommodation in Hasbiyya, Lebanon
Three Lebanese journalists were killed in the early hours of Friday morning by an Israeli airstrike that hit their accommodation in the town of Hasbiyya in south Lebanon. Wissam Qassem, a videographer for Hezbollah channel Al-Manar; Ghassan al-Najjar, a videographer for Al-Mayadeen; and Mohamed Reda, a broadcast technician for the same channel, were all killed in the attack.
Israel kills 3 Lebanese military soldiers on medical evacuation mission | 17 airstrikes on Beirut destroy 6-building residential complex
Three soldiers in the Lebanese military were killed by Israeli fire in the early hours of Thursday morning while conducting a mission to evacuate wounded people in the southern border district of Bint Jbeil, the military said in a statement. One of the military personnel killed was an officer, the statement said. The incident came after Israel conducted another heavy bombardment campaign on the southwest of Beirut overnight.
Historic coastal city of Sur becomes new focus of Israeli bombardment on Lebanon
Israeli airstrikes began to target residential buildings and shops on the main streets of the city of Sur on Wednesday morning, just a few hours after the military spokesperson had issued evacuation orders to residents in the area. The airstrikes were the first to ever target central areas in Sur, the principal city in Lebanon’s coastal South Governorate — an area which was still full of residents.
Displaced people sheltering in abandoned Hamra building fear eviction after clash with Lebanese security forces
Uncertainty reigned on Tuesday among the approximately 300 people who have taken shelter in the Hamra Star building in Beirut after they were displaced by Israel’s aggression from their homes elsewhere in Lebanon. The afternoon before, clashes had broken out next to the building, between Lebanese security forces and some of the displaced residents, as well as protesters in the area, as authorities attempted to forcibly evacuate the residents from the building on Hamra Street.
Israeli airstrikes target Al-Qard Al-Hassan branches across Lebanon | US envoy Amos Hochstein to seek ceasefire in Beirut
In overnight air raids, Israel launched missiles at over 10 customer service branches in different areas of Lebanon belonging to Al-Qard Al-Hassan, a financial services association affiliated with Hezbollah. The targeting of the microloans organization came as United States envoy to Lebanon, Amos Hochstein, is due to arrive in the country on Monday in what have been framed as “last chance” talks toward a ceasefire.
Israel demolishes homes in southern Lebanon’s border villages
Israeli military bulldozers plowed through neighborhoods in the villages of Kfar Kila and Ramyah on Sunday, local officials from the areas told Mada Masr. The demolitions furthered the destruction of residential and agricultural areas in the border region which has comprised part of Israel’s operations in Lebanon. Israel also conducted overnight airstrikes on Beirut, targeting sites near a major mosque and a hospital in the Burj al-Barajneh camp.
Sources confirm killing of Yahya Sinwar
Hamas Political Bureau chief Yahya Sinwar has been killed, two informed sources confirmed to Mada Masr. The Israeli military stated on Thursday afternoon that it had found the bodies of three militants killed during one of its operations in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said that, together with Shin Bet, they were “investigating the possibility” that Sinwar was among the three deceased individuals.
23 people from south Lebanon killed in Israeli airstrike on Zgharta | Raid on Nabatieh kills family of 4 | Security Council expresses concern at targeting of UNIFIL troops
Lebanese Red Cross and Civil Defense vehicles are parked at a site damaged by an Israeli air strike in the Christian-majority region of Aitou in north Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said, October 14, 2024. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim At least 23 people were killed in Lebanon on Monday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike on Zgharta, in the North Governorate. This was one of the few attacks to target the governorate since the start of the war — and the deadliest so far.
Hezbollah drones hit Israeli military training base, kill 4 | Pentagon deploys THAAD defense system, operators to Israel | Israeli bombing on health center in south Lebanon kills 4
Hezbollah launched what it called a “swarm” of drones on Sunday evening at an Israeli military training base in Binyamina town to the south of Haifa. The drones killed four soldiers and injured 58 more, according to Israeli media reports, which said that eight of those wounded were in serious condition.
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