Bel Trew | The Independent

(Translated by https://www.hiragana.jp/)
Bel Trew | The Independent

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20190214012155/https://www.independent.co.uk/author/bel-trew

Bel Trew

Bel Trew is The Independent’s Middle East Correspondent, based in the region. Bel has covered the region since the start of the Arab Spring in 2011, and has reported on uprisings and subsequent conflicts in Egypt, Libya and Yemen. She has also covered the last two wars between Israel and Gaza, and followed the emergence of Isis in Tunisia.

South Sudan’s need for humanitarian funding is ever more urgent

In 2019 a staggering 7.1 million, or around two thirds of South Sudan’s population, will require humanitarian assistance

Independent Minds

Bel Trew Israeli water technology could hold the key to Middle East peace

The Sea of Galilee is shrinking but expertise in desalination could be the answer to Israel’s water woes. And if the technology is shared, it might hold the key to regional peace, reports Bel Trew

Pope’s historic UAE trip meant to bolster its ‘moderate’ credentials

As anti-Arab Israeli racism worsens, the world is playing ignorant

Bel Trew

Residents in besieged Yemeni city forced to eat rubbish

Libyan commander courted by European countries accused of war crimes

Israel’s former army chief Benny Gantz launches elections campaign

Netanyahu accused of pandering to ‘antisemites’ with summit invites

UK to give Iraq more than £30m to rebuild country after Isis

UN admits key Yemen truce failing as aid groups warn of food crisis

Despite indictment threat, Netanyahu odds on for re-election in Israel

Bel Trew

Detainees 'being sexually assaulted and flogged' in Saudi prisons

Independent Minds Middle East: Your questions answered

Following the special event this week, Bel Trew returns to some of the pressing issues

Yemen political parties to agree prisoner swap terms ‘within days’

Jeremy Hunt says £2.5m cash injection will help UN peace plan in the Red Sea city of Hodeidah

Netanyahu’s lawyers to meet Israeli attorney-general over graft cases

Iran impatient to go to war with Israel, says head of air force

The water crisis which threatens chances for peace in the Middle East

Women 'snatched from cafes and tortured in secret prisons'

Netanyahu's top election rival Gantz launches long awaited campaign

Gaza protests: Palestinian woman killed as Israel launches airstrikes

Protesters keep up pressure on Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir to step down

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: footage of British mother's arrest emerges

Netanyahu rejects corruption allegations in bizarre Instagram outburst

Egypt inaugurates 'biggest cathedral in the Middle East'

Palestinians fear move to the right as early elections loom in Israel

The stories behind a painful year in the Israel-Palestine conflict

Bel Trew

Southern Yemen demands split from North amid fears of fresh conflict

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe barred phone calls to family

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe announces hunger strike

Christians fear shrinking community will disappear in Gaza

Review of the Year

When the camel falls, the knives multiply

Christmas tree lighting ceremony held in condemned Bedouin village

Israel prosecutor 'to recommend corruption charges against Netanyahu’

Israel's prime minister accuses Lebanon of 'colluding' with Hezbollah

Yemen: Tense truce holds in flashpoint city of Hodeidah

Violence spirals in West Bank during Israeli manhunt for shooter

Two Israelis and four Palestinians killed in West Bank violence

Egypt detains rights lawyer for wearing yellow protest vest

Ceasefire agreed for Yemeni city of Hodeidah

Toddler dies from wounds in Gaza as Israeli baby killed after shooting

Netanyahu sparks backlash by hailing Italy's Salvini as 'great friend'

Egypt clamps down on yellow vest sales to avoid copycat protests

UN proposes rebel withdrawal from Yemeni port and shared control

Young musicians in Gaza fight the siege to play for peace

Yemeni prisoners describe horrific torture in Houthi jails

Yemen government, Houthi rebels agree prisoner swap before peace talks

Israeli army launches operation to uncover Hezbollah tunnels

Houthi delegation set to join UN-peace talks on Yemen

Firefight over covert Israeli mission ‘nearly triggered new Gaza war’

Amnesty: Israeli cyber firm’s licence should be revoked over ‘spying’

AP cameraman shot in leg while covering Gaza protests

Sharing my story with Londoners has inspired me to tell the world

Almost 85,000 children under five ‘have starved to death in Yemen’

Yemeni government agrees to peace talks with Houthis

Powerful Israeli minister rescues Netanyahu's government from collapse

Netanyahu under mounting pressure amid talk of early elections

Netanyahu is paying the price for his aggression towards Gaza

Bel Trew

Doctor makes desperate plea from Yemen as humanitarian crisis worsens

Israel defence minister Avigdor Lieberman resigns 'over Gaza ceasefire

Palestinian militant groups in Gaza announce Israel ceasefire

Fears grow of Gaza conflict as Hamas threatens to expand rocket fire

Fierce fighting erupts between Israel and Gaza

Israelis kill six Palestinians including Hamas commanders during raid

Yemen peace talks pushed back to the end of year, says the UN

Yemen war: Houthi rebels 'militarising' hospitals, warns Amnesty

Dozens of sick Yemeni children at 'risk of death' in Hodeidah

Thousands of carp die in mysterious circumstances in Iraq

More than 200 mass graves of Isis victims discovered in Iraq

Britain urges UN Security Council to back ceasefire in Yemen

British-backed bombing raids destroy UK aid in Yemen

Slave trade: Fleeing Isis militants sell Yazidi captives to fund escap

King Salman's brother lands in Saudi Arabia for 'crisis talks'