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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

So much time & money wasted on this ill-fated plan to use aid as a tool for displacement, surveillance and consolidation of Israeli control over Gaza. Israel needs to open Gaza's crossings and let the humanitarian grown-ups do their lifesaving jobs. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Head of US-backed Gaza aid group resigns, saying he will not abandon ‘principles’

Jake Wood’s resignation comes after the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation faced criticism from the UN and other aid groups

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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Sign of our time: many things that should not need saying, now need to be said.

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New Gaza Aid Plan, Bypassing U.N. and Billed as Neutral, Originated in Israel

UN & other experienced groups want to distribute aid throughout Gaza, but the Israeli govt is blocking their supply. They refuse to participate in the new plan. @nytimes.com today reveals Israeli backing for the new "aid" group, which has no such qualms. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w...

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Israel threatens to starve out northern Gaza, U.N. aid agencies say

Last year, Israel used aid as a tool to force Palestinians to leave northern Gaza by blocking aid there but allowing some in the south. It now says aid will be allowed just in policed zones in the south, forcing people to leave the north in order to eat. www.npr.org/2024/10/15/n...

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Israel has allowed almost no food aid into north Gaza for two weeks. Humanitarian groups say it leaves 400,000 people with the choice of eventual starvation or fleeing their homes to the south.

Israeli govt ministers say they'll depopulate Gaza & settle it with Jews, echoing Trump's call to displace Palestinians. Israel's military made 80% of Gaza a no-go zone & told civilians to leave, but there's no safe place to go & no safe way to get there. www.hrw.org/report/2024/...

“Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged”

The 154-page report, “‘Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percen...

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Since the start of the war 597 days ago the Israeli gov't has used starvation as a weapon of war, blocking aid & using it as leverage against Hamas. 1/5 of Gaza's 2 million people, nearly half of whom are children, face starvation. gisha.org/en/aid-acces...

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The US-backed group tapped by Israel to run aid in Gaza says it'll start this week, with sites in Gaza's south. Palestinians in Gaza will be pushed to choose between displacement and starvation. A thread w more details in my recent @nybooks.com piece: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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On May 12 the IPC, the global authority on food security, issued a dire warning. “The Gaza Strip is still confronted with a critical risk of famine,” it

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 24/05/2025

“Given the choice, many people [in Gaza] will seek asylum elsewhere,” writes Sari Bashi. “International law requires Israel to let them do so. But they also have a right to come back.”

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On May 12 the IPC, the global authority on food security, issued a dire warning. “The Gaza Strip is still confronted with a critical risk of famine,” it

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Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A missile over a playground. 9 children dead. A hotel turned to rubble. Aid workers nearly buried. This is not collateral damage. This is a pattern of unlawful attacks. 📢The world must demand accountability. 📄Full @hrw report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 21/05/2025

“The plan to make Palestinians in Gaza accept further displacement as a condition of receiving food parcels is intertwined with another: to press them into leaving Palestine altogether.” —Sari Bashi

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On May 12 the IPC, the global authority on food security, issued a dire warning. “The Gaza Strip is still confronted with a critical risk of famine,” it

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Al-Khalasa helps us understand the problem but also the solution: More than 2/3 of Gaza's 2.3 million residents are refugees & their descendants from what's now Israel. Trump & Netanyahu don't need to find 3rd countries to take them in. They need to respect their right to return.

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Today, Israeli forces continue to destroy towns & displace residents in Gaza, openly endorsing Trump's call to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza. It's part of the same racial superiority logic behind the 1948 Naqba & it won't end when the fighting stops in Gaza- if it ever does.

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77 years later, we know the displacement, destruction and denial of the right to return were part of a well-planned policy to ensure Israeli Jewish dominance over Palestinians, including demographic superiority, through apartheid. This was al-Khalasa's school, also destroyed.

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Al-Khalasa is one of hundreds of Palestinian villages ethnically cleansed in 1948, as the fledgling Israeli state sought to maximize the land under its control while minimizing the number of Palestinians living there. This was the flour mill, a regional resource at the time.

Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This week, guided by the excellent NGO Zochrot, I visited the ruins of al-Khalasa, a Bedouin village destroyed by Israeli forces in 1948 to prevent its residents from returning. A thread on the past, future and present of Palestinian refugees, Gaza's "day after" and Trump's Riviera plan.

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'US policymakers have normalized [denying Palestinian refugees' right to return], to the point that Trump has been looking to Egypt or Jordan .. to absorb Palestinians rather than demand that Israeli authorities respect their right to live in Israel.' www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

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On May 12 the IPC, the global authority on food security, issued a dire warning. “The Gaza Strip is still confronted with a critical risk of famine,” it

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The proposal does “not look like a plan for aid distribution so much as a tool for further pressure, to ensure that life is unlivable in Gaza,” says @taniahary.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/w...

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Amid Blockade, Trump and Israel Mull Divisive Aid Plan For Gaza

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

"When women are involved in peace negotiations, those processes are more likely to lead to agreement ...and are more likely to be implemented." @heatherbarr.bsky.social reminds the 2nd Trump administration what the 1st Trump administration knew: Peace can't exclude women. www.hrw.org/news/2025/05...

Women’s Participation Has Proven Worth in Bringing Peace

At least, we thought ruefully, the women, peace, and security agenda—backed in the United States by the first Trump administration—is safe. We thought this could remain true even amidst the current Tr...

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Just some of the dozens of children killed in the recent Israeli airstrikes on Al-Shuja’iya Massacre, Eastern Gaza City Each one a universe. The light of their parents eyes.

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Emma Daly @emmadaly.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

U.S. Slashes Many of the Aid Programs It Had Promised to Keep The U.N. food program said the new cuts “could amount to a death sentence” for millions of desperate people. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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Trump Administration Cuts Aid Programs It Had Promised to Keep

The U.N. food program said the new cuts “could amount to a death sentence” for millions of desperate people.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I remember seeing the viral footage of Shiri Bibas, terrified, holding her two boys, surrounded by gunmen, on the afternoon of Oct 7, 2023. It was a searing realization of the horrors that would follow. May their memory be a blessing & may these horrific abuses end. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

Bibas Family Funeral in Israel Highlights Illegality of Hostage Taking

Shiri, Kfir, and Ariel Bibas were taken hostage by a Palestinian armed group on October 7, 2023, and buried in Israel on Wednesday as mourners bid them farewell along the funeral procession route.

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Jean-Baptiste Gallopin @jbgallopin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

New @hrw.org report: The Sudan Shield Forces, an armed group fighting alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces, intentionally targeted civilians in a January attack on Tayba village, killing at least 26 people including a child. This constitutes war crimes. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02... 🧵

Sudan: Armed Group Allied to the Military Attacks Village

The Sudan Shield Forces, an armed group that fights alongside the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), intentionally targeted civilians in an attack on January 10, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today.

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

.@hrw.org is looking for a deputy program director to provide strategic oversight for five regional and thematic research divisions, play a leadership role in implementing our global strategy, and ensure the highest research quality. Working closely with me: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

"No amount of public relation efforts by the Egyptian government will change the reality of the country’s dire human rights crisis." @hrw.org's @amrmagdi.bsky.social on the Egyptian government's brutal crackdown on bloggers, cartoonists, poets and political opponents. hrw.org/news/2025/01...

Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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What's happening in Goma and surrounding towns is heartbreaking. Human Rights Watch is offering an opportunity to be part of the solution through rigorous research, advocacy & media work. Please repost our search for a senior DRC researcher based in Kinshasa: job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today Israel’s ban on UNRWA, Gaza’s main aid agency, comes into effect. Its impact will be catastrophic for pregnant women and newborns. Read @hrw.org latest report on the impact of Israel's blockade and attacks on Gaza's pregnant women and newborns www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

Gaza: No Safe Pregnancies During Israeli Assault

The Israeli government’s blockade of Gaza and attacks on healthcare facilities have created serious and sometimes life-threatening danger for women and girls during and after pregnancy and delivery si...

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Belkis Wille @belkiswille.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🚨 New Report by @hrw.org 🚨 Amid Israel’s assault on Gaza, women & girls have faced unimaginable conditions. Shaima's story is a testament to their struggle. Read full report to understand devastating impact of Israel's blockade, attacks on healthcare. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

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Stacy Sullivan @stacysullivan101.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The #ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu. The US doesn't like that and is threatening to sanction court officials. Can the ICC Survive 2025? Tune in to @hrw.org's latest Rights & Wrong's podcast and find out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Can the ICC Survive 2025?

Podcast Episode · Rights & Wrongs · 01/27/2025 · 30m

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Beautiful, bittersweet images of Palestinians in Gaza moving north, to homes from which they were forcibly displaced. Even for those who will camp in front of destroyed homes, the reunion with loved ones offer solace & a response to Trump's offer to exile them to Jordan or Egypt.

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Zama Neff @zamahrw.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Today the US endorsed the #SafeSchoolsDeclaration joining 120 other countries who are promising to protect education during war. Here's why it matters: www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

European Court of Human Rights recognizes that Greek pushbacks - forcing asylum seekers back to Turkiye without hearing their asylum claims - are systematic. My @hrw.org colleague @billfrelick.bsky.social on what the EU and EU countries need to do about it. www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

A Landmark Ruling on Greek Border Pushbacks

On January 7, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Greece violated the rights of an asylum seeker (a Turkish woman identified as A. R. E.) as part of “a systematic practice of ‘pushbacks’ of ...

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

UNRWA statement on the order by Israeli gov't to evict the aid agency helping Palestinian refugees from its Jerusalem offices. Follows a decision by the extreme right Israeli gov't to ban UNRWA from providing schools, health care and food to Palestinian families in need www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

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The Government of Israel orders UNRWA to vacate its premises in occupied East Jerusalem and cease operations in them | UNRWA

The State of Israel ordered UNRWA to vacate all premises in occupied East Jerusalem and cease its operations in them by 30 January 2025. This order is in contradiction to international law obligations...

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Alison Leal Parker @lealparker.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

NEW from #HRW on Trump immigration EOs: "All people, regardless of immigration status or criminal history, have the right to fair treatment before the law and a chance to argue for their liberty and rights when they are detained or face deportation." www.hrw.org/news/2025/01...

Trump’s Executive Orders Promise Systemic Detentions, Deportations

In a nondescript parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, a fifth-grade boy waited in a car while his mom, Natalie Burke, went inside a US government office to sign some paperwork.

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Nir Hasson, نير حسون، ניר חסון @nirhasson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

שחרור האסירים הפלסטינים הוא שפל חדש ביחס המשטרה לחופש העיתונות: - 4 עיתונאיות פלס' זומנו לחקירה והוזהרו שלא להמשיך ולתעד את שחרור האסירים. - צלמים נחסמו והורחקו בכוח מהמקומות בהם שוחררו אסירים ומבתי המשפחות. - המשפחות אויימו שלא לדבר ולא לפרסם שום דבר ברשתות החברתיות.

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The road blocks in the West Bank, imposed since the Israeli gov't reportedly added "security in Judea and Samaria" to its war aims, are jamming up roads, blocking access to schools, health care & jobs--and heightening fears that attacks that devastated Gaza are heading our way, starting with Jenin.

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Sari Bashi @saribashi.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Humanitarian aid should have flooded into Gaza, irrespective of a deal. Civilian hostages should have been released, irrespective of a deal. Hoping the Israeli gov't and Hamas leadership will, as part of this deal, uphold their duties to respect human rights and protect civilians.

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Sarah Saadoun @sarahsaadoun.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Even the G20 now recognizes that inequality is a serious global problem, but efforts to address it are failing miserably. I team up w/ Gene Leon, ED of Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity, in a new oped to propose a development model that centers ppl & planet opiniojuris.org/2025/01/13/n...

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Nations Should Boldly Redefine Development Approach

[Gene Leon is Executive Director of the Development Bank for Resilient Prosperity and former director of the Caribbean Development Bank. Sarah Saadoun is a senior economic development and rights re…

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 14/01/2025

"The damage Trump may do to the cause of human rights could create a temptation to look back on the Biden era with nostalgia. But those rose-colored glasses would obscure the real picture." Read HRW's Sarah Yager on how US President Joe Biden failed on human rights: