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☆ French Warship Treats Around 1,000 Injured Gazans off Egyptian Shore
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

The Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier, has been docked in the Egyptian port of al-Arish, 50 km (30 miles) west of the Gaza Strip, since November. Israel has targeted the largest remaining hospitals, saying Hamas fighters are operating there, something Hamas denies. Those lucky enough to cross into Egypt, like 16-year-old Ahmed Abu Daqqa, who was injured on Nov. 1, faced long waits for medical care. Doctors in Gaza "took out the shrapnel and put in two rods, but a month later they discovered more shrapnel in my knee. He and others on board the French ship were awaiting further transfers to hospitals in Egypt or abroad.

Persons: Alexandre Blonce, Gazans, Israel, Ahmed Abu Daqqa, Ahmed Fahmy, Mohamed Abdelghany, Nafisa, Mark Heinrich Organizations: Hamas, World Health Organization Locations: ARISH, Egypt, Gaza, French, al, Arish, Palestinian, Italy

☆ Spain denounces 'indiscriminate' Gaza deaths, angering Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit meets with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Cairo, Egypt November 24, 2023. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also weighed in, saying the two European leaders had failed to spotlight what he called crimes against humanity committed by Palestinian militants of Hamas. Hamas fighters burst into Israel from Gaza on Oct. 7 in an attack Israel says killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. Israel has bombarded Gaza and sent in troops and tanks in retaliation, killing about 14,000 Gazans, around 40% of them children, according to Palestinian health authorities. On Thursday, Sanchez met Netanyahu and Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Persons: Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Pedro Sanchez, Alexander De Croo, Mohamed Abdel, Sanchez, Eli Cohen, De, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Netanyahu's, Jose Manuel Albares, Albares, Isaac Herzog, Mahmoud Abbas, Inti Landauro, Ari Rabinovitch, Andrew Gray, Emma Pinedo, Charlie Devereux, William Maclean, Grant McCool Organizations: Arab League, Spain's, Belgium's, Hamas, REUTERS, Spanish, Belgian, Israel's, Palestinian, West Bank, Thomson Locations: Israel, Cairo, Egypt, Gaza, Rafah, Spain, Belgium, Spanish, Hamas, Ramallah, Belgian, Madrid, Jerusalem, Brussels

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 26, 2023. "Egypt rejects any attempt to resolve the Palestinian issue by military means or through the forced displacement of Palestinians from their land, which would come at the expense of the countries of the region," he said. Sisi said the Egyptian people would "go out and protest in their millions ... if called upon to do so" against any displacement of Gaza's residents to Sinai. Egypt is wary of insecurity near its border with Gaza in northeastern Sinai, where an Islamist insurgency intensified a decade ago. Any transfer of Palestinians to Sinai would mean "that we move the idea of resistance, of combat, from the Gaza Strip to Sinai, and so Sinai would become the base for launching operations against Israel", Sisi said.

Persons: Abdel Fattah al, Sisi, Vladimir Putin, Alexei Danichev, Olaf Scholz, Osama Hamdan, Jordan, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Israel, John Kirby, Biden, Nayera Abdallah, Nadine Awadalla, Amr Abdallah Dalsh, Sherif Fahmy, Mohamed Abdel, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, Aidan Lewis, Gareth Jones, Philippa Fletcher, Alistair Bell, Grant McCool Organizations: Sputnik, Rights, West Bank, U.S, Israeli, United, Volunteers, Cairo University, State, Thomson Locations: Russia, Africa, Saint Petersburg, Rights CAIRO, Sinai, Gaza, Cairo, Israel, Egypt, Beirut, Rafah, United States, Dubai, Ghany

Rising salinity in the Delta has multiple causes, experts and farmers say, including overextraction of groundwater and excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides. "With time, with the sea level higher, that line of salinity will go down into the Delta. EVAPORATIONSea water intrusion and salinity also threaten the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta in Bangladesh. "You have to do much better job in a place like the Nile Delta because the water just evaporates quickly," she said. Rice cultivation helps wash the soil, but the government has imposed restrictions on the crop in parts of the Delta to conserve scarce water.

☆ Egypt’s Food Supply in Danger as Farmers Struggle to Adapt to Climate Change
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

FAYOUM, Egypt—Armyworms have ravaged Mohamed Abdel Tawab’s maize crop, the result of increasingly frequent heat waves in this central Egyptian oasis that lies to the west of the Nile. In recent years, the changing weather patterns have helped give rise to pests that have attacked his tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchinis and eggplants. Earlier this year, he tried to plant clover, but the weather was too hot and no sprouts appeared.

☆ Egipt: Explozia unui gazoduct în Peninsula Sinai
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-25 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

"O explozie s-a produs joi seară la gazoductul principal care alimentează oraşul Al-Arish, în zona Sabika, la vest" de capitala provinciei Sinaiul de Nord, a precizat sursa.Explozia nu a făcut victime şi "nu va afecta aprovizionarea oraşului cu gaz", a afirmat într-un comunicat guvernatorul provinciei Sinaiul de Nord, Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha.Cauzele exploziei urmează să fie stabilite.Martori au declarat pentru AFP că fumul şi flăcările erau vizibile la 30 de kilometri depărtare de Al-Arish.Pe de altă parte, forţele de securitate au fost aduse pentru operaţiuni de curăţare a zonei şi a fost deschisă o anchetă, potrivit comunicatului.În februarie, organizaţia jihadistă Stat Islamic (SI), foarte activă în Peninsula Sinai, a revendicat un atentat împotriva unui gazoduct la 80 de kilometri est de Al-Arish.Atacurile s-au înmulţit după destituirea în 2013 preşedintelui islamist egiptean Mohamed Morsi de către armată.Cu începere din februarie 2018, autorităţile efectuează o operaţiune pe întreg teritoriul Egiptului împotriva militanţilor islamişti, axată în principal în nordul Peninsulei Sinai şi deşertul occidental, scrie agerpres.ro.

Persons: Mohamed Abdel Fadil, -, organizaţia, Mohamed Morsi Locations: Al, Sinaiul, Nord, Peninsula Sinai, autorităţile, Peninsulei Sinai, deşertul

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