Sara Jabakhanji
Senior Writer
Sara Jabakhanji is a Toronto-based senior writer assigned to cover news developments in the Middle East, including the war in Gaza and Lebanon. She has worked in CBC bureaus in Ottawa, London and Toronto. You can reach her at sara.jabakhanji@cbc.ca.
Latest from Sara Jabakhanji
'The sea took all of our things': Floodwaters devastate beach encampment in Khan Younis
Heavy winds and rising sea levels flooded and swept away displaced Palestinians along with their belongings overnight, in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Winter conditions are destroying the few remaining items they have after more than a year of ongoing bombardment.
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International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, former Israeli defence minister
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in that country's deadly 13-month campaign in Gaza.
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Trucks carrying aid into Gaza are being violently ransacked. Here's what we know
As many of Gaza's more than 2.3 million people desperately wait for humanitarian assistance and food to reach them, aid trucks are being ambushed and looted before getting to their destination. We look at what we know about the groups doing the looting and the efforts to stop it.
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Malnutrition cases grow in Gaza, hospitals report, as little aid and food make it through
Hospital officials in the Gaza Strip say they’re dealing with a growing number of malnutrition cases among children in the enclave as little aid is making it through the crossings and the aid that does enter is violently looted.
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Israeli military's 'massive' forced displacement in Gaza amounts to war crimes: new report
Human Rights Watch says the "massive" and "deliberate" forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza carried out by Israeli forces equates to war crimes and crimes against humanity, in a new report published Thursday.
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Palestinian paramedic recounts 'massacre' on school shelter in northern Gaza
As one of the few paramedics left in northern Gaza, Niveen Al-Dwawsa, is often the first on the scene of airstrikes, where she treats as many wounded people as she can. She used her phone to record what she saw while responding to the aftermath of an attack on a school shelter in Jabalia on Oct. 21.
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Does your signature always look the same? In Nevada, it's holding up mail-in ballots
People's signatures can change throughout the course of their lives, typically with little consequence. But it's caused a larger issue for the U.S. election results in Nevada, where nearly 13,000 mail-in ballots are still being held, due to voter signatures not matching those in the state database.
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Woman discovers footage of Israel soldier playing her piano in bombed-out home in southern Lebanon
A video circulating on social media captured an unsettling coincidence for a young Lebanese woman who came upon footage on Instagram of IDF soldiers playing her old piano and walking around in the bombed-out wreckage of her family home.
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Al Jazeera calls Israeli army claims 'baseless' after IDF accuses 6 journalists of being militants
The Israeli military on Wednesday accused six Palestinian journalists with Al Jazeera of being involved with Hamas or Islamic Jihad militant groups, claims the Qatari news network "vehemently condemns."
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A look at life in northern Gaza as Israel intensifies military operations
For more than two weeks, Israeli forces have been carrying out an offensive in northern Gaza — a move the United Nations human rights office said appears to be cutting off the region completely from the rest of the Gaza Strip.
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