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. 

• Cutting UNRWA’s funding will have dire humanitarian consequences (The Conversation, Feb. 2024) [text]
• Funding for refugees has long been politicized − punitive action against UNRWA and Palestinians fits that pattern (The Conversation, Feb. 2024) [text]
• "Gaza aid in-depth: Response leaders warn of extreme obstacles, even with a ceasefire," The New Humanitarian, 1 Feb. 2024 [text]
• "Guterres appoints independent UNRWA review panel," UN News, 5 Feb. 2024 [text]
• Humanitarian assistance in Gaza: The difficulties of distribution (BOND, Feb. 2024) [text]
• Palestine: Impact of the conflict on children in the Gaza strip (ACAPS, Feb. 2024) [text]
• "Inside the siege on Gaza’s largest remaining hospital," The New Humanitarian, 1 Feb. 2024 [text]
• Israel isn’t complying with the International Court of Justice ruling — what happens next? (The Conversation, Feb. 2024) [text]
• "Israel seeks to evacuate Palestinians jammed into a southern Gaza city ahead of an expected invasion," AP News, 9 Feb. 2024 [text]
• On Civilians’ Return to North Gaza: What International Humanitarian Law Requires (Just Security Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]
• "Palestinian refugees in West Bank fear UNRWA closure," Reuters, 11 Feb. 2024 [text]
• War on Gaza: twenty-first century's deadliest 100 days? (UN Economic & Social Commission for Western Asia, Feb. 2024) [text]
• "‘When will we be next?’: A dispatch from Rafah," The New Humanitarian, 13 Feb. 2024 [text]

Other publications:

Reports:

City of welcome and transit: Migrants’ and refugees’ livelihoods and migration projects in Sousse, Tunisia (Mixed Migration Centre, Feb. 2024) [text]

Going from bad to worse? Well-being of Syrian refugees in Turkey in the aftermath of the February 2023 earthquakes, BIM News, no. 1 (Berliner Institut für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung, Jan. 2024) [text]

- See also related articles in InfoMigrants and The New Humanitarian.

International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing the Republic of Iraq, Update I (UNHCR, Jan. 2024) [text]

Policy and Practice Updates from the Gulf (International Detention Monitor, Jan. 2024) [text]

“We did not fear death but the life there”: The Dire Human Rights Situation Facing Syrian Returnees (OHCHR, Feb. 2024) [text via Refworld]

Yemen: Selected drivers of the current conflict and their impact on women, men, girls, and boys (ACAPS, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Continuity and change in Saudi Arabia’s development and humanitarian aid," Third World Quarterly, Latest Articles, 15 Dec. 2023 [open access]

"Electoral dynamics, new nationalisms, and party positions on Syrian refugees in Turkey," Turkish Studies, Latest Articles, 9 Feb. 2024 [open access]

"HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes towards HIV and condom use among internally displaced Libyan males: Is there a need to implement sex education?," HIV Research & Clinical Practice, vol. 25, no. 1 (2024) [open access]

"Migrants in the throes of multiple crises: fragmented state authority, informal networks and forced (im)mobilities in Libya," Third World Quarterly, Latest Articles, 29 Dec. 2023 [open access]

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (31 Jan. 2024)