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Mohammed Tawfeeq - News Desk Producer

Mohammed Tawfeeq

News Desk Producer

Mohammed Tawfeeq has more than 10 years' experience as an international news editor and producer specializing in the Middle East and North Africa.

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An Israeli flag flies outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 22, 2024.

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An Israeli citizen is missing in the UAE. Israel says ‘information’ suggests a terror incident

Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan citizen who represents a religious movement of Hasidic Jews, has been missing since Thursday afternoon.

Civil defense members work as Lebanese army soldiers stand guard at the site of an Israeli strike in the Basta neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon, on November 23, 2024.

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Dozens killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including 20 in central Beirut

Dozens of people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including 20 who died after a strike flattened a multi-story residential building in central Beirut overnight, according to Lebanese officials.

The IAEA flag flutters in the wind outside of the IAEA headquarters during the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on November 20, 2024.

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Iran says it is activating new centrifuges after being condemned by UN nuclear watchdog

Iran announced Friday it was activating new advanced centrifuges – which enrich uranium for the country’s nuclear program – after the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog criticized the country for not cooperating with the agency.

Two women stand next to the destruction in the city centre of Tyre, following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese port city, killing at least seven, three of whom were deaf and mute over the weekend. Explosion continues in the south of Lebanon as Hezbollah and Israel's conflict has not see an end. (Photo by Ashley Chan / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

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Israel says it has expanded its military ground operation in Lebanon

Israel’s military ground operation in southern Lebanon has been expanded, the country’s defense minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday.

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City on October 26, 2024.

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Qatar says it suspended mediator efforts for Gaza ceasefire due to lack of good-faith negotiations

Qatar announced Saturday that it has paused its role as a mediator for a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas due to a lack of willingness by the sides to reach an agreement.

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Iranian woman detained after taking clothes off at university in Tehran

A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code.

Lebanese naval commandos patrol the sea after a suspected Israeli naval force landed in the northern Lebanese coastal town of Batroun early on Friday and captured one person, a security source said, in Batroun, Lebanon November 2, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

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Israel says it captured senior Hezbollah operative in amphibious special forces raid

The Israeli military says it has captured a senior Hezbollah operative in an amphibious special forces raid in northern Lebanon.

This screen grab obtained from a social media video released on October 3, shows Yazidi woman Fawzia Sido, who was kidnapped by Islamic State in Iraq and was freed from Gaza this week, meeting her relatives at an unknown location.

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Yazidi woman captured by ISIS rescued in Gaza after more than a decade in captivity

A 21-year-old Yazidi woman has been rescued from Gaza where she had been held captive by Hamas for years after being trafficked by ISIS.

A cloud of smoke erupts during Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon on September 25.

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Israeli military preparing for possible Lebanon ground incursion, army chief says

The Israeli military is preparing for a possible ground incursion into Lebanon, its top general said on Wednesday.

People check the damage at the scene of an Israeli strike in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 20.

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Senior Hezbollah commander among 31 killed in Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut

A deadly Israeli airstrike on Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut on Friday has left over a dozen people dead, including a high-ranking Hezbollah commander, sharply escalating the conflict between the two sides and raising fears of all-out war.

The Israeli military said it had struck Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in seven other areas of Lebanon, in the south, on Saturday, September 14.

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Israeli military says it has hit Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in several areas of Lebanon

The Israeli military says it targeted Hezbollah “weapons storage facilities” in multiple airstrikes across Lebanon on Saturday.

People surround two passenger trains which collided in the Egyptian city of Zagazig on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024.

At least three killed as trains collide in Egypt

At least three people have been killed and 49 injured in a train collision in Egypt, the country’s health ministry said Saturday.

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UN staff member among 10 killed during Israel military operation in West Bank

Israel’s military accused Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad of “hurling explosive devices,” while UNRWA said he was shot “on the roof of his house having a coffee.”

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Israel launches multiple airstrikes on southern Lebanon, killing Hezbollah special forces commander

Israel has launched multiple strikes on southern Lebanon over the last day, including one which killed a senior Hezbollah commander.

A view from the area after Israeli airstrikes on a tent encampment Khan Yunis, Gaza on September 10, 2024

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At least 19 killed and more feared buried in Israeli airstrike on Gaza humanitarian zone targeting Hamas militants

The strike hit an area that Israel itself had designated as a humanitarian zone for displaced people. Israel said the operation targeted Hamas fighters there.

Displaced kids sort through trash at a street in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Infected wounds, maggots and no escape. Gaza’s humanitarian crisis hits new lows as sanitary conditions plummet

A 14-year-old boy lies in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, severely burned from an Israeli airstrike. Doctors say nearly his entire body is affected. His wounds have now become infested with maggots.

Mohammed Tawfeeq has more than 10 years’ experience as an international news editor and producer specializing in the Middle East and North Africa. He has covered historic events in the region, including the US-led invasion of Iraq and subsequent sectarian violence, the toppling of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya and the rise of ISIS.

His responsibilities include writing, filming, bureau management and producing for CNN correspondents and anchors.