Regional Focus: MENA

News & commentary on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza: 

Here are the most recent sitreps from OCHA and UNRWA. Visit ReliefWeb for a much more comprehensive listing of updates and situation reports.

• "4 things to know about UNRWA, Gaza's largest aid organization," NPR, 13 Nov. 2023 [text]
• "Gaza: 'How do we escape the slow death of starvation?'," The New Humanitarian, 7 Nov. 2023 [text]
• "Gaza refugee camps: born during first Arab-Israeli war," France 24, 7 Nov. 2023 [text]
• "Israel Tells Palestinians to Leave 4 Southern Gaza Towns," VOA News, 16 Nov. 2023 [text]
• "Overrun shelters in Gaza become disease risks, as forced flight continues," The New Humanitarian, 15 Nov. 2023 [text]
• Responses to the humanitarian situation in Gaza and Israel (Humanitarian Practice Network, Oct.-Nov. 2023) [access]
• Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Humanitarian chiefs will not take part in unilateral proposals to create “safe zones” in Gaza (IASC, Nov. 2023) [text]
• Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, "We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire" (IASC, Nov. 2023) [text]
• "UN Security Council adopts resolution calling for urgent humanitarian pauses and corridors in Gaza," AP News, 15 Nov. 2023 [text] [see also related Amnesty International statement and VOA News story]
• Why a “humanitarian pause” or “humanitarian corridors” are simply not the answer in Gaza (Views & Voices Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]
• "With 102 Workers Killed, U.N. Agency in Gaza Struggles to Provide Aid," New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023 [text]

Other publications:

Abuse, Corruption, and Accountability: Time to Reassess EU & U.S. Migration Cooperation with Tunisia (Refugees International, Nov. 2023) [text]

A Cascading Crisis: Looming Threats of Mass Internal Displacement from South Lebanon in the Wake of the Israel-Hamas Armed Conflict (RID Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

EU planning new anti-migration deals with Egypt and Tunisia, unrepentant in support for Libya (Statewatch, Nov. 2023) [text]

"In a Tunisian migration hub, asylum seekers find little support," The New Humanitarian, 6 Nov. 2023 [text]

"Problematizing Early Marriages: Development Narratives and Refugee Experiences in Jordan," Chapter in Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life (Leuven University Press, Nov. 2023) [access]

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"Los refugiados palestinos y la UNRWA: encuentros y desencuentros de una relación compleja," Estudios de Asia y África, vol. 58, no. 3 (2023) [open access]

"Youth development and spatial configurations: socio-spatial inequalities in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon," Frontiers in Sociology, 15 Nov. 2023 [open access]

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- Regional Focus: MENA (2 Nov. 2023)