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, Lebanon and Syria. She has worked in CBC bureaus in Ottawa, London and Toronto. You can reach her at sara.jabakhanji@cbc.ca.

Latest from Sara Jabakhanji

Ford vows to hold Honda 'accountable' after it postpones $15B Ontario EV project

Ontario Premier Ford is vowing to hold auto companies that pull out from Ontario "accountable" after news that Honda announced it is putting a major electric vehicle supply chain planned for the province on hold.

Ontario tables new bill aimed at speeding up development of homes, roads and transit

Ontario's housing minister has announced a plan to speed up new home construction while lowering costs for developers through new legislation that was tabled on Monday. 

Children face starvation in Gaza as Israel's blockade of food, medication reaches 2 months

Roughly 60,000 children in Gaza are showing signs of malnutrition, the territory's Health Ministry said, as a two-month blockade on the besieged Palestinian territory remains in place, with aid groups saying the humanitarian response is on the verge of total collapse.

'We could barely walk,' sisters say after being ordered to evacuate northern Gaza's last major hospital

The United Nations chief is "deeply alarmed" at an Israeli forces strike on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, as groups warn of dire shortages of medicine and hospital supplies in the enclave.

'Ahmad burned in front of the whole world,' says wife of Gaza journalist killed after Israeli strike

Images of journalist Ahmad Mansour appearing to be engulfed in flames flooded social media this week after an Israeli airstrike hit a tent used by local media in southern Gaza.

Fear of famine looms after all Gaza bakeries run out of flour amid month-long Israeli blockade

Bakeries in the Gaza Strip shuttered Tuesday after running out of flour and diesel to operate, as a month-long Israeli blockade on food and aid entering the territory remains in place.

As Ramadan comes to a close, Palestinians say finding and affording food in Gaza a challenge

As Muslims in Gaza prepare to mark Eid this weekend and the end of the holy month of Ramadan, families say they're barely making ends meet with no food entering the territory for nearly a month. 
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As Palestinians look for shelter, some pitch their tents next to landfill in Gaza City

Palestinians in Gaza say they have nowhere to go as Israel's renewed offensive forces thousands to leave their homes and once again face displacement in the war-ravaged territory.

Afghans in Pakistan face 'intensified abusive tactics,' report says, as deportation deadline looms

A new report says that Afghan refugees are facing "intensified abusive tactics" in Pakistan amid ongoing pressure for deportation of illegal foreigners and Afghan citizen card holders.

Palestinians scramble to hospitals after Israeli airstrikes hit homes, encampments across Gaza

Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza scrambled to get their loved ones to hospitals, saying there was no warning before a wave of deadly Israeli airstrikes hit in the early hours of Tuesday, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.