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6 days ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Irwin Loy

Republish this article Participating in Israeli plans to enforce a military-controlled aid system in Gaza could implicate the UN in ongoing atrocity crimes and genocide risks, and may set a precedent of “total control” likely to be copied by other countries, an internal UN briefing warns. The fears are outlined in a briefing note circulating among aid organisations this week as Israel pushes plans to fully occupy Gaza and channel all humanitarian aid through militarised hubs. The UN and many...

1 week ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Osama Ahmad

Republish this article When Aminullah and his family finally received their Afghan Citizen Cards in late 2017, they thought their days of evading the police and living in fear of their Pakistani neighbours exposing them as undocumented Afghans had officially come to an end. They were among almost 90,000 Afghans legally registered in Punjab province between 2017 and 2018. Issued only during that year, the cards didn’t entitle them to services, but they did allow them to legally remain in the...

2 weeks ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Ali M. Latifi

Republish this article When author and activist Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on CBS Morning to promote his book The Message last September he was immediately confronted by journalist Tony Dokoupil. Taking command of the interview from his co-anchors, Dokoupil locked in on Coates and said the section of the book about life in the Israeli-occupied West Bank “would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist”. By extremist, Dokoupil clearly meant a Palestinian. More precisely, a Muslim...

2 weeks ago | thenewhumanitarian.org | Irwin Loy

Republish this article The former World Food Programme chief is advising a firm that was involved in that controversial Gaza aid pier (and is led by ex-military and CIA members). This is Inklings, where we explore how aid works in the wilds of humanitarian hubs, on the front lines of emergency response, or in the dark corners of aid punditry. It’s also available as an email newsletter. Subscribe here. Today: UNRWA’s private-sector fundraising, more humanitarian R-words, and can David Beasley...