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Kjersti G. Berg

@kgberg.bsky.social
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Ass. Prof. NLA University College, Norway. Palestine, UNRWA, refugee camps, Jerusalem, international aid. Latest books: Palestina. Fakta på bakken (Palestine. Facts on the ground) and Continental Encampment w. Are Knudsen (Berghahn)

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"Despite its name, however, the Board of Peace is not intended to resolve conflict. Rather, it is a form of authoritarian conflict management, subduing war through repressive means." @danaelkurd.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/27/t...
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Trump’s Board of Peace Will Help Strong Countries Dominate Weak Ones
In Gaza, it will legitimize Israeli land grabs and ethnic cleansing.
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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
13 minutt på Studio 2 om UNRWA, kvifor Israel vil avvikle organisasjonen og kva krisa kan føre til radio.nrk.no/serie/studio...
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I går - Studio 2 - NRK Radio
Hvilke konsekvenser kan det få hvis Palestinas hjelpeorganisasjon UNRWA kollapser? Sterke lag er i finalen når finalen i Afrikamesterskapet i fotball går av stabelen - og vår kongehusekspert mener vi ...
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We journalists are taught: Do the reporting, and the story will write itself. But how does one narrate the stories of 20,000 dead children? Samer Badawi writes in @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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The Burden of Metaphor in Gaza
Beyond a lasting ceasefire, what Gaza needs most is to be understood on its own terms — and for its people to be heard
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Why is Israel declaring "victory" in Gaza when many of its aims were not met? @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes that the real goal is the same as it has been for decades: maximum land, minimum Palestinians. Trump's ceasefire plan is another step in that direction. jewishcurrents.org/what-israeli...
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What Israeli “Victory” Looks Like
The Trump deal doesn’t destroy Hamas but it does further Palestinian dispossession.
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Wendy Pearlman @wendy-pearlman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
"Even if it does bring about a welcome respite from the suffering in Gaza in the short term, I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Today's ceasefire withdrawal leaves the IDF in control of a large proportion of Gaza's former urban areas (outlined in white)—all of Rafah; most of Khan Younis; Beit Hanoun; and Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood. Areas where we know nearly all buildings have been demolished are shaded black.
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Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Together with @kgberg.bsky.social I try to explain how we got to the famine in Gaza. www.prio.org/comments/1801
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The starvation of Gaza is a deliberate policy – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
In recent days, Israel has commenced new attacks on Gaza, with humanitarian aid playing a key role in its forced expulsion of Palestinians.
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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Recommended reading - by Christine Evans and Nieves Molina-Clemente opiniojuris.org/2025/09/01/t...
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The European Union Human Rights Sanctions Regime and its Applicability to the Situation in Gaza and the West Bank in Accordance with International Law
[Christine Evans is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the law faculty of Lund University and a human rights practitioner/investigator who has worked for the UN. Nieves Molina is an international lawyer…
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
'A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump admin, modeled on Trump’s vow to “take over” the enclave, would turn it into a trusteeship administered by the S for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.'
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Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population
President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.
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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
«We must not allow the belligerent state to get away with saying this is an accident, collateral damage. … It’s part and parcel of a destruction of peoplehood — a people destroyed, fragmented, eviscerated — it’s the elimination, really, of a people,” @meznaqato.bsky.social
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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Utsultingen av Gaza er en villet politikk Kronikk med @jjensehaugen.bsky.social www.forskersonen.no/gaza-israel-...
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Utsultingen av Gaza er en villet politikk
KRONIKK: De siste dagene har Israel startet nye angrep i Gaza, og nødhjelp spiller en nøkkelrolle i fordrivelsen av palestinerne.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Hauntingly official: Famine has struck Gaza, says global hunger monitor www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Famine has struck Gaza, says global hunger monitor
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system said 514,000 people - nearly a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza - are experiencing famine, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/08/2025
‘Between 7 October 2023 and 13 May this year, according to Reuters, Germany had granted export licences for military equipment worth €485 million. Will anyone be left in Gaza to benefit from the supposed turning of the tide?’ Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary
Throughout my stay in Berlin, I kept hearing from Germans quietly critical of Israel that ‘cracks’ had begun to...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 07/08/2025
The aim is reportedly to ultimately replace humanitarian aid delivery by the UN and aid orgs. Our latest investigation lays out this flawed militarized aid distribution system:
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Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes
Israeli forces at the sites of a new US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza have routinely opened fire on starving Palestinian civilians in acts that amount to serious violations of international l...
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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
«No one should act surprised» www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year
Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’
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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"At this very moment, UNRWA alone has 6,000 trucks waiting just beyond the border with enough food to provide for the entire population of Gaza for three months." "No evidence has been provided to substantiate any of Israel’s countless...weaponized allegations against UNRWA"
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Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza
The region’s most experienced aid agency could feed all of Gaza’s population for three months—if Israel would just let them do their job.
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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“Here, we are not dead, but we are not alive either.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...
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In Egypt, displaced Palestinians have been forgotten
Bombing has forced some 100,000 people to flee from Gaza across the southern border. They are now living in limbo
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
NEW: Human rights lawyer @saribashi.bsky.social spent years litigating against Israeli military restrictions on access to Gaza. She didn't anticipate how quickly this bureaucracy would facilitate the destruction of its people, she writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/thi...
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This Is How You Conduct Genocide by the Regulations
The bureaucracy Israel implemented decades ago to control the population of Gaza has been weaponized to regulate and facilitate its destruction
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements. The time to act is now - me @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach
Symbolic gestures and empty statements are no longer enough. In Israel’s globalised economy, here’s what will shift public opinion, says says senior lecturer in Israeli studies Yair Wallach
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/07/2025
I’m one of many Palestinian doctors in Israel. We’re being persecuted – but we won’t abandon our oath | Lina Qasem-Hassan
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I’m one of many Palestinian doctors in Israel. We’re being persecuted – but we won’t abandon our oath | Lina Qasem-Hassan
We’ve promised to provide equal care to all. Now we’re being punished for speaking out against the killing of medics and patients in Gaza, says Palestinian doctor Lina Qasem-Hassan
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/07/2025
I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak
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I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak
My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to us
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"The social breakdown that we are witnessing, the degrading of human beings, is not a byproduct of the harm that Israel is inflicting. That’s the central element of the crime: destroying Palestinian society." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal
We saw famine in Biafra and Ethiopia. In the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘aid distribution system’ we see an attempt to destroy a whole society, says academic and writer Alex de Waal
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Must read. "In the court of world opinion, a verdict is being handed down every day: the government of Israel is responsible for inhumanities that will scar their state for a long time, perhaps forever."
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/07/2025
‘Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to allow in, as though food were a legitimate bargaining chip. Gazans cannot afford to wait for either.’ New on the blog: Amjad Iraqi on Gaza. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses
Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/07/2025
‘The inability of Western powers to condemn Israel’s conduct – much less bring it to an end – has made a mockery of the rules-based order that they claim to uphold.’ Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October
The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
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Olivier Monnier @olivmon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"The machinery of death must be stopped, not merely slowed." @crisisgroup.org's latest statement on the situation in #Gaza. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...
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Open the Gates to Save a Starving Gaza | International Crisis Group
As ceasefire talks drag on, Gaza is tipping from mass starvation toward mass death. Israel must allow assistance in immediately. But that step alone will not save the strip’s depleted population. Gaza...
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 15/07/2025
“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
www.dci-palestine.org/starving_a_g...
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“Starving a Generation” report indicts Israel for weaponizing starvation as a tool of genocide
New report from Defense for Children International - Palestine on Israel's systematic starvation of Palestinian children in Gaza.
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Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Nytt Babylon ute! I artikkelen Skyggekrigen mot UNRWA etter 7. oktober 2023 viser @kgberg.bsky.social & jeg hvordan Israel undergravde UNRWAs legitimitet. Det beredte grunnen for den katastrofen som er Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. journals.uio.no/babylon/arti...
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Visning av Skyggekrigen mot UNRWA etter 7. oktober 2023
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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
(..)why parts of the Israeli right see UNRWA as such a threat. The fact, in their eyes, that UNRWA perpetuates the idea of the right of return of Palestinian refugees is nothing less than an existential threat to the Israeli state www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
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The Englishman on a crusade to ban UNRWA
Jerusalem's Israeli-British deputy mayor, Arieh King, has been leading the charge against the UN agency that provides aid, food, education and healthc...
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Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
For social scientists, an excellent collection of essays in the latest edition of Daedalus on "The Ethics of Social Research: Perspectives from the Study of the Middle East & North Africa." Open access direct.mit.edu/daed/issue/1...
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Volume 154 Issue 2 | Daedalus | MIT Press
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Yezid Sayigh @yezidsayigh.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Israeli "statements paint the bare avoidance of mass death as humanitarian success. This approach treats famine warnings as ceilings to hover beneath rather than floors to rise above" Crisis Group: The Gaza Starvation Experiment www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-... via @crisisgroup.org
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The Gaza Starvation Experiment | International Crisis Group
Israel’s new U.S.-backed aid scheme in Gaza integrates food into military strategy. Since the war began, Israel has restricted aid, easing up when famine alerts appeared, tightening as attention faded...
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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@danaelkurd.bsky.social every other international power (...) continue to bet on business-as-usual—in which the Palestinian people are robbed of their political agency and right to self-determination, and expected to acquiesce.
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Martin Konečný @martinkonecny.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Europe's dynamics on Gaza finally begin to shift, a human rights review of EU-Israel ties is under way. This is an opportunity to step out of Europe's self-imposed irrelevance and press Israel to reverse its devastating course. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The EU faces a moment of truth. Will it follow through on trade sanctions on Israel – or slide into irrelevance? | Martin Konečný
A human rights review of EU-Israel ties is under way. The results will be significant for both the war and Europe’s reputation, says Martin Konečný, head of the European Middle East Project
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Morgenbladet @morgenbladet.no · 23/05/2025
- Folkeretten er ikke først og fremst innrettet for å beskytte sivilbefolkningers rett til å overleve. Den er innrettet for å beskytte staters rett til å føre krig, sier menneskerettighetsekspert Dirk Moses. (M+)
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(+) – Resultatet er folkemord, uavhengig av hva FN-konvensjonen eller israelske ledere sier
Forvirringen i folkemord-debatten har røtter i en inkonsistens i folkeretten, mener menneskerettighetsekspert Dirk Moses. Loven er rigget i staters favør – mot sivile ofre.
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Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
From the FT today: "The killings on Sunday will deepen doubts about GHF’s ability to replace the UN, which previously delivered aid to families at local distribution sites. MSF International on Saturday described the new system as “disastrous. Ineffective. Dangerous. Reckless. Dehumanising”."
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Dozens of Gazans killed and injured trying to get aid, health ministry says
IDF denies firing on civilians after more than 30 deaths among people headed to controversial humanitarian hubs
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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Mass death through starvation is the certain outcome of Israel’s continued blockade and ongoing military campaign. The only question is when. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
There will be a lot of euphemisms about "voluntary migration" and "humanitarian zones" and whatnot, but this is ultimately a plan for ethnic cleansing www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
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Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip
Trump has effectively given Netanyahu a green light to do as he sees fit, Israeli officials say.
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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Since 2 March, Israeli authorities have reinstated a complete siege on Gaza, blocking all aid and commercial goods from entering for more than six weeks to date. This marks the longest period...Israel has blocked all aid and goods from entering Gaza in history." reliefweb.int/report/occup...
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Besieged - Humanitarian Access Snapshot #11 Occupied Palestinian Territory (19 Jan - 15 Apr 2025) - occupied Palestinian territory
Analysis in English on occupied Palestinian territory about Health, Protection and Human Rights and more; published on 15 Apr 2025 by ActionAid, AFSC and 17ount other organizations
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Erik Skare @erikskare.no · 13/04/2025
This is as close as the UN can get calling it a genocide without using the term itself: “ … Israel appears to be inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...
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Gaza: Increasing Israeli “evacuation orders” lead to forcible transfer of Palestinians
The increasing issuance by Israeli Forces of “evacuation orders” – which are, in effect, displacement orders – have resulted in the forcible transfer of Palestinians in Gaza into ever shrinking spaces...
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Erik Skare @erikskare.no · 07/04/2025
“The ultimate result, however, was the creation of ‘a death zone of enormous proportions”, the report said. “Places where people had lived, farmed, and established industry were transformed into a vast wasteland, a strip of land eradicated in its entirety’.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Israel military razed Gaza perimeter land to create ‘kill zone’, soldiers say
Combatants’ testimonies describe how areas were destroyed to create ‘a death zone of enormous proportions’
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
IDF has long history of denying involvement in civilian killings @peterbeaumont.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Gaza medic deaths just the latest in Israel’s long history of changing its story over civilian killings
After 15 Palestinian medics and civil defence workers were killed by Israeli forces late last month, Israel began a familiar pattern of denial
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Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
While the implementation of Israel's UNRWA ban has been slower than we feared, the current Israeli policies are very much in line with what we predicted.
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Consequences of the Israeli UNRWA Ban – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
MidEast Policy Brief
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Each one of us knows,” Manal said, “that what’s happening in Gaza is going to happen in the West Bank.” No one seemed to be talking about nonviolence anymore. How could they? “It’s all lies,” one veteran activist told me. “Human rights, international law, justice, all of it.”
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Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
As Israel once again pounds Gaza the UNRWA ban looms in the background as something that can be implemented at any time, with disastrous consequences. Our latest in The Cairo Review
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The Consequences and Prospects of Israel’s Ban of UNRWA
As the UN agency’s operations continue to be obstructed, its outright ban will continue the perpetuation of severe human suffering and have multidimensional ramifications, from illegality on the inter...
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Bergen Global CMI/UiB @bergenglobal.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hva skjer med 🇳🇴 støtte til en palestinsk stat? Hvordan har Gaza-krigen formet norsk politisk debatt? Hva vil skje med UNRWA 🇺🇳? Velkommen til lunsj m/ @kgberg.bsky.social @jjensehaugen.bsky.social og Pelle Valentin Olsen ➡️ torsdag 28. nov. ⏰ 11:30 📍 her/zoom 🥐☕️ bergenglobal.no/events/hvem-...
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Hvem er hvem i Midtøsten: Norge, Israel, Palestina og UNRWA - Bergen Global
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Norway will propose a UNGA Resolution to ask the ICJ for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to provide humanitarian assistance for the Palestinians in Gaza in light of the Knesset banning UNRWA from Israeli territory /1 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Norway to ask ICJ for advisory opinion condemning Israel’s stance on Unrwa
Draft resolution for UN general assembly seeks to protect the aid agency and allow it to keep functioning in Gaza
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Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Gjennom den mangeårige israelske blokaden og den pågående Gaza-krigen har UNRWA vært livlinjen som har holdt liv i hundretusenvis av palestinere. Nå skal Israel strupe organisasjonen.
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Kronikk: Israel har trappet opp sin skyggekrig mot Unrwa. Hva skjer nå?
Organisasjonen er blitt et hatobjekt.
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