Yara M. Asi argues that the killing and imprisonment of US citizens by Israeli forces illustrate Washington’s unwillingness to protect its own nationals. @yara-asi.bsky.social arabcenterdc.org/resource/no-...

Join the @palestinephhr.bsky.social at our next webinar: Understanding genocide through a public health lens: Perspectives from Gaza Date: Weds, Oct 22, 2025 Time: 11A – 12P EDT | 6P-7:30P EEST For more info or to register, visit: fxb.harvard.edu/blog/calenda...

Amid one of the worst periods of mass displacement for Palestinians in our history, I wrote about structural oppression of Palestinian refugees for Health Education & Behavior. Refugee Health Under Protracted Structural Oppression: The Palestinian Story journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.” We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

We've been working on this piece for a long time, and it's finally out! The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination Should be open access but currently behind a paywall, DM if you'd like a PDF! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My latest for @arabcenterdc.org is on the US suspension of the visa process used to bring Palestinian children that need complex surgeries and treatments, in large part due to their injuries from the US-funded weapons used by Israel to devastate Gaza. Read here: arabcenterdc.org/resource/gaz...

The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its 27th annual Palestinian research fellowship competition for research in the humanities and social sciences that will contribute to Palestinian Studies. Apps due Dec 4. Details: www.parc-us-pal.org/fellowships-...

Speaking at the 2nd annual Doctors Against Genocide conference this weekend. Info or register here: doctorsagainstgenocide.org/events

Yara M. Asi outlines the shift to widespread expert consensus that #Israel’s actions in #Gaza constitute #genocide. @yara-asi.bsky.social

Join us on 8/26 to discuss the current situation in #Gaza and what might come next after 22 months of #Genocide. Speakers: @yara-asi.bsky.social, @dianabuttu.bsky.social, Mouin Rabbani, @jeremyscahill.com, and Yousef Munayyer. For more info and to register👇 arabcenterdc.org/event/what-c...

This week we hosted @yara-asi.bsky.social and Bushra Khalidi for a webinar on how Israel's famine is unfolding in Gaza, how it was enabled, and what must be done to address the disaster and its lasting effects. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk1U...

“There is not merely a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in Gaza—there is a crisis of despicable inaction by the people in the world with the power to stop Israel from starving, killing, and maiming the Palestinian people.” — @yara-asi.bsky.social, DAWN Fellow

People have been warning about this for nearly two years. Today, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirms: Worst-case scenario of famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

Agreeing with what Palestinians have been saying for nearly 2 years, & what an increasing chorus of international human rights organizations & experts affirm, today Israeli NGOs @btselem & @PHRIsrael agree: Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip www.btselem.org/press_releas...

They already tried the airdrops. They’re horribly inefficient, especially now in the face of mass starvation, & they killed Palestinians by landing on them. Every humanitarian agency on earth says they’re a bad idea & performative. Stop letting Israel dictate the terms. Open the crossings.

Aid workers in Gaza: "We’re in the death phase...everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying." news.un.org/en/story/202...

In Gaza, ten children per day lose one or both of their legs due to Israeli bombings. More than 875 Palestinians have been killed trying to get aid for their families in recent weeks. Unimaginable, unending cruelty. globalprotectioncluster.org/publications...

"Palestinians must now brave what have been increasingly referred to as ‘killing fields’ just for the chance to retrieve food for their families.” — @yara-asi.bsky.social, DAWN Fellow.

Call for Applications: Palestine Social Medicine Course (virtual this year!) We are proud to host the 3rd annual Palestine Social Medicine Course—a 2-week summer program that explores the determinants of health in Palestine. Apps due July 7. Info: icph.birzeit.edu/events/call-...

Extremely proud of my former student Amro, then a med student & now a physician in Gaza, who wrote about the war on dialysis patients for @nybooks.com “The lives of dialysis patients have become a constant balancing act between hope and exhaustion.” Check it out: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

This happens every day now. Daily massacres of starving people desperate for food, killed by the same state military that has been bombing and besieging them. I wrote about this for @arabcenterdc.org: Hunger in Gaza and the Ongoing Weaponization of Aid Read here: arabcenterdc.org/resource/hun...

Yara M. Asi describes #Israel’s weaponizing humanitarian aid for the people of #Gaza and the role that the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation plays in the process. @yara-asi.bsky.social arabcenterdc.org/resource/hun...

Join the Arab Center Washington DC's discussion tomorrow, June 11, 10:30 AM ET, on Israel's destruction of Gaza and the implications for the legal question of genocide. Speakers: DAWN's @sarahleah1.bsky.social, @yara-asi.bsky.social, @jehadabusalim.bsky.social, Raz Segal, and Yousef Munayyer RSVP:

My latest in @theconversation.com: Israel has promised ‘basic amount’ of food into Gaza − but its policies have already created catastrophic starvation risk for millions Check it out here: theconversation.com/israel-has-p...

I'll be speaking at the upcoming @arabcenterdc.org event: A Historic Juncture: Israel’s Destruction of Gaza and the Palestinian Future Weds, June 11 in DC Join in-person or virtually: arabcenterdc.org/event/a-hist...

Our latest in @whoemro.bsky.social Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal: Food insecurity, starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip It’s only gotten much worse since we wrote this. Read for free here: applications.emro.who.int/EMHJ/V31/04/...

My latest for @arabcenterdc.org: Israel’s False Paramedics Story Exemplifies Its Information War Against Palestinians I write about how narratives have been used to both obscure reality as well as to minimize outrage over harms against Palestinians. Read: arabcenterdc.org/resource/isr...

Contributed to this @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social round table, discussing: “The Inevitable Cost of Ignoring—and Enabling—Human Rights Abuses.” Check it out here: dawnmena.org/the-dangers-...

Join us tomorrow, Thursday April 24, at 10:30am EST for a discussion with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah and the directors of the latest film about him, A State of Passion. Register: hsph.me/SOP-QA

Video showed that before 15 aid workers were killed by Israeli forces, they had their emergency signal lights on, contradicting Israel’s claims.

Absolutely horrific figures from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics: "Estimates have showed that 39,384 children in Gaza Strip have lost one or both parents after 534 days of Israeli aggression, including around 17,000 children who were orphaned." From: www.pcbs.gov.ps/site/512/def...

Israeli forces killed 8 medics, 6 first responders & a UN staff member in Gaza. The 15 bodies were found in a mass grave. Via @unocha.org: "We're digging them out with uniforms, with their gloves on...Their vehicles...are crushed and dumped, covered in sand next to us." www.bbc.com/news/article...

From @costsofwar.bsky.social: "The war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I & II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined." watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

Since last week, nine Palestine Red Crescent crew members have been missing after they came under Israeli fire in Gaza's Rafah aje.io/z8ojqf

Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah

All entry points into Gaza are closed. At the border, food is rotting. Medicine is expiring. Vital medical equipment is stuck. If the basic principles of humanitarian law still count, the international community must act to uphold them.

"At no point were there less than 65 people in ER, all with open wounds, mainly women & children...The floor was awash with blood." "We have never had such a long closure. Literally zero [aid] has come in." Doctors tell of the ongoing horrors in Gaza: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza. There are no words.

Hospitals in Gaza are struggling to respond to the surge of injured patients pouring in one day after Israel broke the ceasefire with Hamas. Dr. Razan al-Nahhas describes the scene as 'pure chaos.' (via @wbur.org)

Horrified that the brief respite of the ceasefire appears to be over—already seeing reports of many injured & killed, including children. This after weeks of Israel blocking aid into Gaza. This after months of escalating violence and displacement in the West Bank. The nightmare continues.

My aunt lives in a village in the north West Bank. About five years ago, an Israeli settlement was built just up the hill from her home. Settlers regularly come down the hill to harass them. A few night ago, she awoke to Israeli soldiers right under their window.

📢 On March 13, at 10:00AM ET, join MEDC & @arab-center-dc.Baku.social for a timely discussion on the impact of the US funding cuts across the MENA region. Speakers: @yara-asi.bsky.social, Nidal Betare, Amy Hawthorne, @alaasayeg.bsky.social & Arwa Shobaki. RSVP here ⬇️ mideastdc.org/events/upend...

Next week, join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for our first webinar of 2025, focusing on children in Gaza. March 12, 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST Register or get more info here: fxb.harvard.edu/calendar_eve...

OUT NOW: The first major update to our Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, by Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar, in over a decade is now live! Read, teach, share!

With an unprecedented escalation in Israeli violence, restrictions, forced displacement, and land seizure-- even the fragile guardrails that allowed for some semblance of normalcy in the West Bank have disappeared. My latest for @arab-center-dc.bsky.social: arabcenterdc.org/resource/the...

Renowned Palestinian surgeon Dr. Khaled Alser describes the moment he was abducted by Israeli soldiers in Gaza last year. He spent seven months in Israeli prison.

Israel is escalating its attacks on Palestinian healthcare in the West Bank. Since the start of 2025: - 4 Palestinians have died waiting for an ambulance - 8 EMTs were injured while trying to reach patients - 82+ Palestinians have been killed

Yara M. Asi discusses the ongoing #Israeli military and settler violence against #Palestinians in the occupied #WestBank, stating that it is part of a plan to displace the indigenous population in order to settle the land. @yara-asi.bsky.social arabcenterdc.org/resource/the...

This past summer was the first time ever that my family in Nablus said it might be too risky to visit. Raids, sieges, demolitions, settler & military violence— all happening at unprecedented rates with complete impunity. My latest for @arab-center-dc.bsky.social: arabcenterdc.org/resource/the...

Director of al-Shifa hospital Dr. Abu Selmia after 7 months in Israeli jails: “There was little to no food...no water, no toilet...I saw people who were dying there...I was beaten so badly I couldn’t use my legs or walk. No day passes without torture.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...