Mel Frykberg

Mel Frykberg is an international journalist and correspondent who has worked for and reported for various international media outlets, including the UN news agency Irin, McClatchy Newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald, Al Jazeera, Inter Press Services (IPS) news agency, the African News Agency (ANA) and SABC TV and Radio as their Mideast-Africa correspondent. She has reported from Lebanon, Libya, South Sudan, Gaza, West Bank, Israel, Egypt, Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Mel is also regularly interviewed on American public radio and takes part in discussions on the Mideast.

An UNRWA employee looks on at Palestinians in a school attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza on May 14, 2024.

INEXCUSABLE

The Sneaky No-Good Tricks Israel Is Using to Block Aid

Aid workers trying to help the people of Gaza are being targeted by intimidation, arrests, torture, tank fire, and low-down bureaucratic tricks.

Mel Frykberg

People gather in support of Iran’s strikes on Israel in Tehran.

‘TEACHING ISRAEL A LESSON’

Palestinians Celebrate Amid Fears the ‘War Will Go Regional’

Some Palestinians gathered in the West Bank chanting “Allahu Akbar” as Iranian missiles soared overhead. Others fear the situation is about to get much worse.

Mel Frykberg

A photo of people waving Israeli flags with a picture of Benjamin Netanyahu poking out through the flags

DANGEROUS GAME

Netanyahu Accused of Risking WWIII to Save His Own Skin

Critics of the Israeli PM say he is so desperate to avoid political consequences that he is prolonging the crisis and raising the specter of a full-blown war.

Mel Frykberg