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Hamza Hendawi

Hamza Hendawi

Foreign Correspondent
Cairo
Hamza joined The National in Cairo in February 2019. A native of Egypt, he's covered the news from nearly 30 countries across the Middle East, Asia and Europe. He's worked for Reuters and The Associated Press, covering nearly every recent Middle East conflict, including Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, South Sudan’s civil war and the US invasion of Iraq.

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Large plumes of smoke rise from a fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan. Reuters
Drone attacks blamed on RSF take Sudan's war to new and dangerous level

The strikes are meant to shatter the army's sense of security and devalue significance of RSF setbacks, analysts say

MENAMay 11, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
Palestinians check the destruction at a UNRWA school housing displaced people, following an Israeli strike in the Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip, on May 7, 2025. AFP
Hamas rejects latest US proposals for a Gaza truce and distribution of aid

Sources say Israel and the US continue to pursue voluntary or forcible eviction of Palestinians in Gaza

MENAMay 10, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
The aftermath of an RSF drone strike in Port Sudan on Tuesday. AP
Sudan's RSF expands drone offensive and attacks fuel depots in south

Naval base in Port Sudan also hit in fifth day of strikes by paramilitary

MENAMay 08, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
Palestinians at a school used as a shelter by displaced people that was hit twice by Israeli army strikes on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, on May 7. AP
US proposes 21-day Gaza truce, release of six hostages and resumption of aid

Israeli and Hamas negotiators expected in Egypt on Thursday to discuss proposal with mediators

MENAMay 07, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, welcomes Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Athens, where a series of agreements was announced and a 'strategy partnership' cemented. AFP
Egypt and Greece aim to turn historic ties into 'strategic partnership'

Announcement was made during Egyptian President El Sisi's visit to Athens

MENAMay 07, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
Since Sunday, drones launched by the RSF have been aimed at key sites in Port Sudan. AFP
RSF targets naval base in fourth day of attacks on Port Sudan

Army chief delivers defiant message in the face of the attacks by rival paramilitary force

MENAMay 07, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
Smoke rises after drone strikes by the RSF hit the northern port in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan on Tuesday. AP
RSF drone strike hits Port Sudan in third day of attacks

Airport, port and military base among sites hit as two-year civil war escalates

MENAMay 06, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
Palestinians ferry their belongings as they arrive in Gaza City to flee neighbourhoods to the east of the city following Israeli evacuation orders on April 11, 2025. Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on March 18, collapsing a truce with the Palestinians Hamas movement brokered by the US, Egypt, and Qatar that took effect on January 19 and saw the return of 33 Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of around 1,800 Palestinian detainees. Since then, more than 1,500 people have been killed, according to the health ministry in the Palestinian territory to which Israel cut off aid more than a month earlier. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)
ExclusiveIsrael to push Gaza's entire population south, laying path to resettlement

Sources say strategy amounts to a new Nakba

MENAMay 05, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
Smoke rises from the airport at Port Sudan following the attack on Sunday. AFP
RSF launches air strike on military base inside Port Sudan airport

The attack is the first by the paramilitary to target the nation's de facto capital on the Red Sea

MENAMay 04, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
Debris covers the grounds of a hospital in Khartoum. The Sudanese capital bears the scars of the war between the army and the RSF. AFP
Sudan's refugees face 'terrifying' realities on return to Khartoum

Destruction and a dearth of basic services greet displaced Sudanese in capital

MENAMay 03, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
A man walks in the shrapnel-riddled ward of a hospital in Khartoum. AFP
AnalysisWhy Sudan's army is allowing Islamists to regain dominance

Analysts say the army's alliance with the Islamists lays the seeds of another conflict

MENAMay 01, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York in September 2019. AFP
Trump’s Suez comments sink Egypt-US relations deeper into uncertainty

President's demand for US ships' free transit of Suez Canal is latest headache for Cairo

MENAApril 30, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
Hamas fighters stand by as Palestinians gather on a street to watch the handover of three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir Al Balah in February. Reuters
Gaza truce talks falter in face of Israeli demands

Israel also wants the right to take military action whenever it identifies a threat

MENAApril 29, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
People queue with pots to receive meals from a charity kitchen in Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza. AFP
Hamas says negotiations under way for a Gaza ceasefire ahead of Trump's visit

US President is set to visit Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar in mid-May

MENAApril 25, 2025
Mohamad Ali Harisi
The site of an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City on Thursday. Reuters
Hamas and Israel discuss proposed five-to-seven-year truce

Talks mediated by Qatar and Egypt include the release of all remaining hostages

MENAApril 24, 2025
Hamza Hendawi
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