Humanitarian Issues
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The French 🇫🇷 alone were right and ready to act on Syria in 2013. Had we listened to Hollande, not Obama, we could have prevented one of the greatest humanitarian and geopolitical...
BREAKING: The Government of #Israel submits to the High Court of Justice that after 11 months of - debilitating and atrocious war in #Gaza - it has not accomplished 'effective cont...
🧵 CNN reported on exploitation of Haiti orphans. ca 2017 In 2016 I was visiting my mother and attended Catholic Mass w/her. A priest running a Haiti orphanage was visiting beggin...
BREAKING: This evening (Monday) would-be-settlers plan a massive public prayer in the heart of occupied #Gaza, along the 'Karni-Netzarim Corridor,' a 7 long road severing Gaza cont...
I find this picture of #Israeli coordination with humanitarian organizations in #Gaza (posted just now by COGAT) disturbing. Is the very visible presence of #US military personnel...
Dear friends, It's been a journey filled with despair and disappointment for us Kashmiri Pandits living in these camps. For years, we've clung to the hope that someday our lives m...
If Yesterday’s was about important ports, today it’s about African Nations. Btw, UPSC loves asking questions on Africa Bookmark this for upcoming prelims 2024 Reading Time: 3 mi...
With many of these college protests, I wonder how much they are drawing attention to the plight of Gazans versus to themselves, and distracting from those with real struggles in a...
Opening land crossings like Erez is the only serious way to scale up aid into #Gaza BUT: -like the use of airdrops, this move is not a sign of success but an admission of failure...
🧵 As the humanitarian catastrophe in #Gaza worsens by the day, the EU 27 leaders (#EUCO) unanimously adopted a new unified position Considerable double standards persist, little/n...
There is no famine in Gaza. There might be hungry people who are not receiving supplies from Hamas. But there is no food shortage https://t.co/q7KWdyU5tU
British photographer and peace activist Tom Hurndall. After hearing about how an Israeli bulldozer ran over peace activist Rachel Corrie, he decided to go to Palestine. He was shot...
“'What is the Mossad doing giving humanitarian assistance to blacks in [South Africa]?' I remember asking him. ... 'We’re testing both new infectious diseases and new medication t...
A starving Sudanese child crawls towards a United Nations feeding center while a vulture patiently waits for its next meal. This photo won a Pulitzer Prize, but the photographer, K...
The United Nations Security Council has just voted 13-1 in favor of a humanitarian cease fire in Gaza 🇵🇸. Unfortunately, that single "no" vote was a US veto, meaning one governme...
"Israel’s new grid system for targeted evacuation warnings in southern Gaza risks turning life in the territory into a “macabre game of Battleships”, aid workers have warned." ht...
🇨🇳-🇮🇱-🇵🇸 On November 30, 🇨🇳 issued a position paper on resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. What does it say? Are there any surprises? 🧵 https://t.co/SL6GNm4X2P
🚨 Hamas & Israel both announced that they have reached an agreement on a 4-day humanitarian truce and also a prisoners exchange deal where 50 Israel women & children will be releas...
💣 Humanitarian Crisis all across the globe🌐 🟢 Relevance with respect to UPSC Exam: This topic can be made very interesting for not just upsc aspirants for GS1 World History GS2...
I spoke with Prime Minister @Netanyahu today. I reiterated Canada’s support for Israel and its right to defend itself, in accordance with international law. We also spoke about the...
To those crying over humanitarian aid and wanting a ceasefire, that is not how wars are fought. Håmas has about 500 hostages with about 200 being Americans and Hamas will not allow...
The UN - the biggest aid provider in Gaza – said its work will stop tonight if it doesn't get fresh supplies. On Tuesday, the UN said one third of hospitals and nearly twothirds of...
From the people that orchestrated #Israel annexation of the West Bank and the ancillary "judicial overhaul" come these two position papers, which will likely determine the position...
Emagine a homeless guy knocks on your door Says “the germans destroyed my family don’t destroy my hopes” You let him in out of your kindness Next week you find him killing your fa...
