06 June 2024

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

Focus on Gaza: 
(listed in chronological order)
  • Gaza: Israelis Attacking Known Aid Worker Locations (Human Rights Watch, 14 May 2024) [text]
  • Palestine: Conflict in Gaza leaves 83 per cent of the population internally displaced in less than three months (IDMC, 14 May 2024) [text]
  • "New mass displacement in Gaza on Nakba anniversary," The New Humanitarian, 15 May 2024 [text]
  • Egypt’s Gaza Dilemmas, Middle East & North Africa Briefing, no. 91 (International Crisis Group, 16 May 2024) [access] (available in Arabic & English)
  • Why Can’t More Humanitarian Aid Get to Gaza? (Global Dispatches Podcast Series, 19 May 2024) [access]
  • How the Gaza humanitarian aid pier traces its origins to discarded cigar boxes before World War II (The Conversation, 20 May 2024) [text]
  • Halt: The International Court of Justice and the Rafah Offensive (Just Security Blog, 24 May 2024) [text]
  • "Gaza: UN officials condemn Israeli airstrikes on camp for displaced," UN News, 27 May 2024 [text]
  • "Amid ongoing Israeli incursions into Gaza, aid facilities shut ‘one after another’," UN News, 30 May 2024 [text]
  • Gaza: Escalating hostilities and deteriorating humanitarian situation in Rafah (ACAPS, 30 May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
  • "Gaza demands a new kind of humanitarian action," The New Humanitarian, 30 May 2024 [text]
  • "Condemnations mount over Israeli proposal to label UN aid agency a terrorist group," AP News, 2 June 2024 [text]
  • "Conditions in Gaza are ‘unspeakable’ as one million people flee Rafah: UNRWA," UN News, 3 June 2024 [text]
  • Famine risk increases as Israel makes Gaza aid response virtually impossible (Oxfam, 4 June 2024) [text]
  • "Gaza War Refugees Stuck in Limbo in Egypt," AFP News, 6 June 2024 [text]
  • India’s Multilateral Commitment to Gaza through the UNRWA (Observer Research Foundation, 6 June 2024) [text]

Other publications:

Short pieces

"Can MENA Nations Lead the Way in Refugee Aid and Peace Building?," JURIST News, 22 May 2024 [text]

An EU-Lebanon Refugee Deal Amidst an Unprecedented Crackdown on Refugees (Immigration Detention Monitor, May 2024) [text]

High Commissioner’s statement at the Brussels Syria Conference (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]

Lebanon’s Dangerous Campaign against Refugees (CSIS, June 2024) [text]
- See also related news article.

Syria: Disasters compound challenges for IDPs and drive first increase in displacements in four years (IDMC, May 2024) [text]

"Tunisia: Thousands of migrants 'dumped' in the desert," DW, 25 May 2024 [text]
- See also related news story from Amnesty International.

Yemen: Families left without aid as international donor support collapses (NRC, May 2024) [text]

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