29 February 2024

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (Gaza)

Focus on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza: 

News/commentary:

"Gaza genocide case: Has Israel complied with ICJ orders?," The New Humanitarian, 26 Feb. 2024 [text]
- See also related Action on Armed Violence report.

"Gaza's death toll now exceeds 30,000. Here's why it's an incomplete count," NPR, 29 Feb. 2024 [text]

"Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says," The Guardian, 27 Feb. 2024 [text]

Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee - Civilians in Gaza in extreme peril while the world watches on: Ten requirements to avoid an even worse catastrophe (IASC, Feb. 2024) [text]

“The time for decisive action is now”: Former U.N. Experts Open Letter on Rafah (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]

UNRWA and the Day After in Gaza (Sada Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]

"A US Call for a Humanitarian Cease-fire in Gaza," New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024 [text]

What Will Happen to UNRWA Funding for Palestinian Refugees? (Wilson Center, Feb. 2024) [text]
- See also related articles in UN News and The New Humanitarian.

Why Egypt refuses to open its border to Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza (The Conversation, Feb. 2024) [text]
- See also related Reuters article.

Reports & journal articles:

"Coerced migration: mobility under siege in Gaza," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 8 Feb. 2024 [open access]

Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact Projections - Report One: 7 February to 6 August 2024 (Johns Hopkins Univ. & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Feb. 2024) [access]

"Gaza and the Political and Moral Failure of the Responsibility to Protect," Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Latest Articles, 16 Feb. 2024 [open access]

Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the  obligation to ensure accountability and justice: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/55/28 (UN Human Rights Council, Feb. 2024) [text]
- See also related statement.

“I Don’t Want to Die”: Bearing Witness to Palestinians Under Siege in Gaza (Refugees International, Feb. 2024) [text]
- See also related commentary.

"UNRWA at the Frontlines: Managing health care in Gaza during catastrophe," The Lancet, vol. 403, no. 10428 (Feb. 2024) [full-text]

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