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.

• Aid workers in war zones like Gaza face impossible choices that can leave them traumatized (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]
• Gaza’s next tragedy: Disease risk spreads amid overcrowded shelters, dirty water and breakdown of basic sanitation (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]
• Humanitarian access to Gaza (EJIL Talk Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]
• In the face of death, destruction and displacement, beauty plays a vital role in Gaza (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]
• "Israel-Hamas truce: How much aid has entered Gaza?," Al Jazeera, 29 Nov. 2023 [text]
• Refugee Law (Articles of War Blog, Nov. 2023) [text] (contribution to the Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium) 
• "What the Scale of Displacement in Gaza Looks Like," New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023 [text]

Other publications:

Equal Partnerships: African Intermediary Cities as Actors and Partners in Urban Migration Governance (Samuel Hall, Nov. 2023) 

- City reports have been issued for Oujda, Morocco and Sfax, Tunisia.

"High-risk drug use among Palestinian adolescent refugees in the North West Bank Palestine," Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, Latest Articles, 12 Sept. 2023 [full-text via An-Najah National Univ.]

Inadequate and inequitable: water scarcity and displacement in Iraq (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

*"Refugee Networks, Cooperation, and Resource Access," American Political Science Review, First View, 13 Nov. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan.

Safe, Voluntary, and Dignified Return for Syrian Refugees from Lebanon: A synthesis of ideas and ways forward discussed at a migration policy roundtable in Beirut (UNU, Nov. 2023) [text]

"Saudi Arabia and the International Refugee Regime," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles, 21 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"Who is a Refugee in Jordan? Hierarchies and Exclusions in the Refugee Recognition Regime," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 23 Nov. 2023 [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (16 Nov. 2023)