The siege imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israel since the election of Hamas in June 2007 has greatly harmed Gaza’s health system. Many services, specialist and life-saving treatments are not available to Palestinians inside Gaza and access to medical care in hospitals outside Gaza has decreased. In addition, as the security situation worsens for Palestinians treatment of chronic patients, among them cancer and heart patients, is postponed, and the supply of medicines and medical equipment to Gaza is delayed.

As the conflict in Syria continues to intensify, attention is turning to the impact it is having upon Syria’s neighbours. Since it began in 2011, the conflict has forced over 1.3 million Syrians to flee as refugees to Syria’s surrounding neighbours. In this seminar, Mr Ziad Mikati, will share his personal views on the challenges that the Syrian conflict presents for Lebanon and the region.  As an advisor to the former Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, Mr Mikati is well placed to shed light on this increasingly complex situation.

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The Gallipoli Peninsula stands as one of the earliest theatres of joint military operations in the modern era. At Gallipoli, both the Allies and the Ottomans employed their naval, land and air power assets in pursuit of a decisive victory. The campaign, which opened with a naval assault to force a quick capitulation of the Ottoman Empire, turned into a massive land campaign as a result of the allied amphibious landing. However, the naval assault failed, and degenerated into a war of attrition waged increasingly by submarines and aircraft to the end of World War I.