Today marks 6 months of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza. On the ground, Israel continues to carry out attacks, choke off aid, prevent people from returning to their ruined homes, demolish property on a massive scale, block any kind of reconstruction & directly occupy more than 50% of the Strip.

Harrowing account of yesterday’s Israeli assault on Beirut. 100 strikes in 10 minutes all across the city: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Seeing reports of 250+ people killed by Israel strikes across Lebanon today – utterly devastating. Israel also killed Al-Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in a strike on the Gaza Strip today, bringing the total number of journalists killed in the enclave to over 210.

Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud's latest for The New Humanitarian is subtly powerful and devastating. She writes about the inner measure of the first home we all carry regardless of where we go. What if that home is Gaza, a place that is being erased? www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Palestinian journalist and poet Nour ElAssy with an incredibly powerful essay in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on the meaning of Palestinian Land Day after 30 months of genocide in Gaza. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/2026/03/30/l...

Arguments in Noem v Al Otro Lado are over. A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed sympathetic to giving the government power to block people from seeking asylum at the border. This article is still relevant in terms of spelling out what’s at stake: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/2026/03/23/-...

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in Noem v Al Otro Lado, a case with significant implications for the right to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border. Senator Ted Cruz misused my reporting in a amicus brief in the case. I had to set the record straight. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/2026/03/23/-...

Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case Noem v. Al Otro Lado, about the legal right to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border. I was shocked to see my reporting used by Senator Ted Cruz to support the argument for blocking access: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/2026/03/23/-...

I lived in a building in 2012/2013 exactly at the center of that cloud of smoke caused by a recent Israeli air strike on Beirut. The neighborhood is packed with people and just steps from downtown.

Our investigation "Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza" has been short listed for a 2026 True Story Award! Screen grab is from what the jury had to say. Read the investigation here: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

“Iran war: America’s shame and the continuing ruination of a region” My latest for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editors-take...

Trump has made it nearly impossible to seek asylum in the US. What does that mean for people searching for safety and stability after being forced to flee their countries — often due to crises in which the US has a hand? My report from Tapachula, Mexico www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2026...

A very good read by Adam Shatz over at @lrb.co.uk 👇🏼 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

NGOs currently being given access to Gaza have either bartered silence for access, or seem politically aligned with Israeli authorities. Must read investigation by @sparksriley.bsky.social, with some truly eyebrow raising details 👇 www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

Palestinian journalist Nour ElAssy on the “Board of Peace” and the attempt to shift the narrative on Gaza to a question of management rather than one of rights and accountability 👇🏼 www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

I’ve been thinking about the last line of this @newyorker.com article about Bezos and the Washington Post since I read it a couple days ago. Really puts things (and not just the Post decision) in perspective. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

A really important (and stark) rundown of what's happening beyond the international headlines with Phase Two of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza from @972mag.com www.972mag.com/gaza-ceasefi...

Palestinian journalist @rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social latest article on Trump’s Board of Peace and what’s been happening in Gaza as the world’s attention drifts away is an absolute must read: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Read Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud's latest article on Israel's banning of Gaza aid NGOs & Trump's so-called Board of Peace: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

Read this report about what's been happening with humanitarian aid efforts in Gaza since last month's ceasefire by @sparksriley.bsky.social & Ghada Abdulfattah. It paints a very different picture from narratives promoted by US & Israeli officials. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...

Palestinian journalist Rasha Abou Jalal kept a diary for The New Humanitarian in August and September as her family tried to resist being forced out of Gaza City by Israel's offensive. Now, she writes returning to her hometown after the ceasefire: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Over the past two years, The New Humanitarian has published 36+ first-person articles written by Palestinians in Gaza. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/first-person...

"I’m relieved they’re not being bombed right now, but a truce is not peace. It’s just a pause in death." Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud on the ceasefire in Gaza: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Read @rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social's article on the range of emotion sweeping the displacement camp where she is living in central Gaza following the announcement of a ceasefire: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

“The problem was never that Palestine lacked recognition. The problem is that Palestine lacks freedom and action.” Essential reading from Nour ElAssy: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

Been thinking about line from this podcast a lot recently: "What neoliberalism has done is taken away that thing that secures and holds us in common... So what are we? We're little Hobbesian creatures: diffident, anxious, competitive, and in the end, a little murderous." www.npr.org/2025/07/10/1...

Read @rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social harrowing account of the past week in Gaza City and her family's forced displacement to the south. "I wept because I love my city, Gaza, where I was born and raised, and today I am being forced to leave it." www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Israeli forces have killed nearly 3,000 people attempting to get aid in the Gaza Strip & wounded almost 20,000 others. For over a year, @sparksriley.bsky.social tracked these attacks, which we just published as a publicly accessible database and timeline. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

Don't look away. Read Rasha Abou Jalal's intimate and harrowing diary from Gaza City as the Israeli military intensifies its assault. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Arrests of Sudanese refugees involved in organising protests against dismal conditions and lack of resettlement opportunities on 21 August in Agadez, Niger "may constitute an enforced disappearance", according to the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders.

Another message from journalist Rasha Abou Jalal in Gaza "I was deeply saddened today by the killing of journalist Maryam Abu Daqqa. Maryam was my friend...She loved photographing food, restaurants and the sea." Maryam was one of four journalists killed today in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital

One message I received today from Rasha About Jalal, a journalist I work with in Gaza: "I see fear and terror on the faces of people here in Gaza… they feel that danger and invasion are inevitable... Israeli drones are dropping bombs on the rooftops of people’s homes to force them to flee south."

From this week's @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Cheat Sheet. Read Rasha's article here: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Hello @longreads.com Please consider Rita Baroud's three part diary about surviving 570 days of genocide in Gaza, evacuating, and then navigating survivor's guilt while beginning to adjust to life in France for your editor's picks section. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

"Residents of Gaza City are once again living under the threat of displacement... Most conversations I overhear are about whether to head south or stay no matter the consequences." Urgent from Rasha Abou Jalal from Gaza City as Israel threatens to invade: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

A secret meeting earlier this month between UN agencies, international aid organisations, and the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been met with a mixture of outrage and disbelief by humanitarian figures and observers. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...

“Refugees are wrongly treated as a crisis, while the real crisis is a system that approaches protecting human life as optional and stopping movement across borders as essential.” Urgent view on global refugee protection, by Mustafa Alio & Rez Gardi www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

Read this painfully beautiful article by Sumaya Yasser Saleh about the things Israel's brutal assault on life in Gaza has taken from her that will never be recorded in two-dimensional tallies of death and destruction and the meaning of survival. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Every word of this demands to be read. Read it out loud to yourself. Find a loved one or friend, read it to them. Let the weight of each sentence sink in. "I don’t want to be used as a symbol of triumphant survival. Yes, I survived – but I am not okay." www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

"I had once hoped that the great iron gate of Evin would fall – not from an airstrike, but opened by the people... That the fall of that gate would be a celebration, not a mourning." Read this first-person by former prisoner Saeedeh Fathi: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Tammam Aloudat, @newhumanitarian.bsky.social's CEO, with a bold call to action for humanitarian organizations: 1) Take Western governments to court over complicity in Israeli atrocities 2) Assemble a massive flotilla to break the blockade of Gaza www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

From this week's @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Cheat Sheet. Read Rita's article here: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Every word of Rita Baroud's latest article for The New Humanitarian demands to be read, their magnitude absorbed. "Gaza is not a memory. It is a pulse inside me that will not stop. I feel like I am still there, caught between the rubble and the fire." www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Another absolutely critical, must-read in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social's "Don't look away" series of first-person articles from Gaza. This one by 22-year-old Hani Qarmoot on facing gunfire to get flour. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Civilian volunteers have rescued more than 175,000 people in the central Mediterranean Sea in the past 10 years. Their humanitarian work has also become a flashpoint in Europe's poisonous migration politics. Read this deeply human portrait of one mission: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

My last.. #Gaza

We have reached the point where a family receiving a sack of flour in Gaza without being shot at or shelled is news. Read @rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social's latest for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Despite intense media coverage, the day-to-day human reality of life in Gaza under Israeli assault is difficult to imagine. Journalist Rita Baroud writes about it with heart-wrenching power. I spoke to her for this @newhumanitarian.bsky.social podcast. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/podcasts/202...

At least 549 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get aid from the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the past month. Read Rasha Abou Jalal’s harrowing account of her husband’s experience: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Hajar Harb was a formidable human being. I was privileged to know her and work with her for the brief time that I did. This is my attempt to honor her memory: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editors-take...