The Palestinian banking system’s heavy dependence on "Israel" has exposed it to growing financial risks, with two Israeli banks processing billions of shekels in transactions each year and controlling a key channel to the Israeli financial system.

UNICEF describes Gaza’s education crisis as a learning crisis affecting every school-age child, with foundational skills eroding and students struggling to reach the level expected for their age.

For the first time since 2003, the Iraqi government has publicly acknowledged a "serious" financial shortfall that disrupted salary payments for public sector employees in July 2026.

Escalating Israeli and Egyptian military deployments around Sinai and Gaza are increasingly seen as stretching or breaching the 1979 peace treaty’s security annex, reflecting rising tensions, disputed interpretations of the agreement, and a shifting border reality driven by the Gaza war.

Amid mounting anger from labor unions and growing opposition from academics and political actors in Morocco, the government of Aziz Akhannouch pushed through a law reshaping higher education and scientific research.