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Read this story on Gaza by @arwadamon.bsky.social: With Israel’s expanding war and plan to take over aid, my colleagues and friends in Gaza fear a “death blow”: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

The killing of the medics in Gaza by Israel was not an aberration. Read @newhumanitarian.bsky.social article by James Smith www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

Someone tell the Guardian there are multiple genocides concurring as we speak

I did not see any coverage on ICJ proceedings about Israel obligations in occupied Palestine on any major news network!!

With all the caveats about the UN weaknesses and biases, no other humanitarian actor I know of has talked about the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza with the moral and factual clarity of this statement. Still not enough but a step further than all others.

300,000 mines, unknown # explosive remnants: This is the danger Syrians, including those returning to #Syria, face. @ec.europa.eu should urgently support demining efforts, press authorities to set up civil-led mechanism to survey & clear land. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

The suspensions and reductions in ODA are disrupting all health system functions, with the most frequently reported impacts being on health emergency preparedness and response(70%), public health surveillance (66%), service provision(58%), humanitarian aid (56%), and health and care workforce (54%).

A respected humanitarian. A troubling arrest. A death in custody. No explanations. More than 16 months after the death of Hisham al-Hakimi in Houthi custody, many questions remain. Our latest investigation unpacks what happened: ⬇️

Why the US aid defunding crisis threatens to trigger a full collapse for crucial humanitarian data.

What happens when the institutions that hold power are in charge of reforms? 💴 Funding will not follow value 🤼 Organisations will compete to survive, contorting themselves to donor preferences 🇺🇳 UN agencies will out-compete nimbler frontline groups

With Israel stopping all supplies and humanitarian aid to Gaza today, is it time for humanitarian organisations to take an unequivocal stand against a government that is openly and shamelessly instrumentalising aid? Refuse to cooperate? Refuse to give them cover?

🧵News from #Ukraine that you're probably not seeing: Early this morning, Russian forces struck an @msf.ca-supported hospital in #Kharkiv. Four patients were injured and reportedly, over 50 patients had to be evacuated. #NotATarget

It was never an aid freeze for review, it was always going to be sadistic men depriving people of any hope of survival. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

I almost never get off a webcast and say, 'Damn, that was good.' But this was that. My key takeaway: No one cares about soft power, being good anymore. So the hard power orientation forces us to take sides-don't throw out the rules-based order but apply them equally, not following colonial patterns.

The Trump aid freeze isn’t the death of humanitarianism, but restoring funding alone won’t fix a broken system. What comes next? Opinion piece by @tammam.bsky.social

Wy reform (of the humanitarian sector) is not enough and why we need to start remaking humanitarianism Read my opinion article in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

Join me and @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on Wednesday 19 February at 14:00 to discuss the aftermath of the aid freeze by the Trump administration in the US with Lata Narayanaswamy, Deborah Doane, Nidhi Bouri, and Abbas Sheikh. Register here www.thenewhumanitarian.org/events/if-no...

Solar power, in a country like Zambia with lots of sunshine, seems like a common sense solution to energy needs. But that overlooks the number of hurdles in the way. Read about it: ⬇️

Over 100,000 homes have been destroyed across Myanmar, most in Sagaing Region. The Pyusawhti militia is at the heart of this destruction. Learn why: ⬇️

"The Trump administration placed several dozen senior officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave in response to what an official characterized as resistance to President Trump’s policy."

It is shocking how many organisations members of InterAction accept such language to be put forward in their names.

Abductions and enforced disappearances of dissidents by the Kenyan state are nothing new but have in recent months become a political lightning rod for William Ruto's administration, focusing public attention on a highly emotive: ⬇️

Follow our reporters and editors to stay updated on global humanitarian crises and emergencies. go.bsky.app/VVZtDyz

Started reading Technicolonialism by @madianou.bsky.social on technology and innovation in humanitarian aid. Very good start.

NEW—CDC officially ordered by Trump WH to cease working with the @WHO, effective immediately. This is the first time in almost 77 years since WHO’s founding after World War 2. This is a dark day for America and the world. apnews.com/article/cdc-...

"Never Again" should not be a lie from the mouths of war criminals and genocide enablers.

Suspending aid is going to be catastrophic to many humanitarian and development programmes around the world. This should be the trigger for aid agencies to detach themselves from donor who use them towards their political agendas. Aid should be about solidarity not hegemony

#Sudan withdraws from hunger-monitoring system ahead of report on famine... Many more people will be at risk of hunger.. rfi.my/BGVh.X

Our editorial in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social we tell aid agencies that their failure to unambiguously call out Israel’s war crime is complicity. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editorial/20...

CNN has a much bigger space on its front page about robot beetles than about Amnesty International report declaring Israels onslaught in Gaza a genocide.

Our @newhumanitarian.bsky.social investigation exposes how Israel targeted aid and starved Gaza. We spent 7 mths piecing together how UN developed this plan with communities in northern Gaza & how Israel destroyed it. Please read and distribute widely. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

A good metaphor for humanitarian neutrality here by @koenbogaert.bsky.social. It is certainly not « doing nothing »!

The targeting of health facilities seems to have become the new norm from Gaza to Idlib. "The Syria Civil Defence, better known as the White Helmets, have reported airstrikes on displacement camps and multiple healthcare facilities in Idlib." www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2024/12...

Most of the 341 humanitarian workers killed in Gaza are Palestinians. Would there be more reaction from the humanitarian world if they had been foreign aid workers? Is there anything humanitarian org not doing to stop the general massacre and the undermining of their security and basis of existence?

Happy COP: only for some. By Zeina Shahla in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

The situation in Syria is as paradoxical and catastrophic as ever. However, in your savvy political analyses, do not speak of Syrians as if they were bought and paid for by the side you don’t like. We have agency and aspirations DESPITE everyone’s politics and narrow goals.

Save the Children UK - ‘The vast majority of these children are being killed without any clear justification’ news.sky.com/story/boy-9-...

I don’t understand liberals accepting Biden’s pardoning his son who was convicted with due process under his own DoJ! Biden is the one in this video. The Democrats and Republicans are mirror images of each other. youtube.com/shorts/dvsrR...

Palestine and Syria are not very different. Both peoples controlled for decades by totalitarian regimes installed and sustained by the complicity and engagement of the west. Both people crave dignity, agency, and community.

Balochistan, largest province in the country, and a major producer of natural gas and oil. But residents say profits aren’t being fairly distributed back into the remote southwestern province, where 70% of the population is considered “multidimensionally poor”. https://buff.ly/40TJqbn

Watching the rebels in Syria is, for me who once had hoped there would be an end to the tyranny in my country, is a storm of emotions. Yet I get angry at all the “analysts” who know nothing other than parroting assertions without having had the decency to ask a Syrian what they think

Save the Children has come under criticism by staff following a series of alleged missteps during the organisation’s ongoing restructuring. Read more: ⬇️

In the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, residents are digging foxholes to survive missile strikes and eating noxious animal feed to stave off hunger, reports Ahmed Gouja @qoga12: ⬇️

📰 Inklings newsletter: International Criminal Court arrest warrants are hinged to Israel’s aid denials in Gaza. What does this mean for humanitarian groups that prioritise access? ⬇️

Refugees in Amhara are increasingly being stabbed, shot and robbed by Fano militiamen and armed bandits, reports Fred Harter

The leadership in Pakistan has long been accused of disenfranchising and discriminating against any number of minority groups -Pashtuns, Ahmadis, the Baloch people, Hazaras and non-Muslims- many of whom have tried to express their discontent through protest. Read about it ⬇️

Lebanon ceasefire, Haiti evacuations, and some food aid at last in Sudan: The Cheat Sheet. A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues: ⬇️

My podcast on The New Humanitarian. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/podcasts/202...