Today marks 6 months of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza. On the ground, Israel continues to carry out attacks, choke off aid, prevent people from returning to their ruined homes, demolish property on a massive scale, block any kind of reconstruction & directly occupy more than 50% of the Strip.

The deadliest 10 minutes in decades: Lebanese reel from Israeli strikes that killed hundreds Beirut residents and officials say civilians were main casualties in operation that bombed 100-plus targets in 10 minutes

Harrowing account of yesterday’s Israeli assault on Beirut. 100 strikes in 10 minutes all across the city:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Seeing reports of 250+ people killed by Israel strikes across Lebanon today – utterly devastating.

Israel also killed Al-Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in a strike on the Gaza Strip today, bringing the total number of journalists killed in the enclave to over 210.

Between Gaza and Europe: Searching for home For exiled Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud, her life in Gaza before the genocide is an inner measure she carries with her wherever she goes.

Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud's latest for The New Humanitarian is subtly powerful and devastating. She writes about the inner measure of the first home we all carry regardless of where we go. What if that home is Gaza, a place that is being erased? www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Palestinian journalist and poet Nour ElAssy with an incredibly powerful essay in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on the meaning of Palestinian Land Day after 30 months of genocide in Gaza.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/2026/03/30/l...

Excuse me Ted Cruz, I need to set the record straight The senator has distorted my reporting to try to persuade the Supreme Court to give the government expansive power to block access to asylum.

Arguments in Noem v Al Otro Lado are over. A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed sympathetic to giving the government power to block people from seeking asylum at the border. This article is still relevant in terms of spelling out what’s at stake: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/2026/03/23/-...

Excuse me Ted Cruz, I need to set the record straight The senator has distorted my reporting to try to persuade the Supreme Court to give the government expansive power to block access to asylum.

The Supreme Court hears arguments today in Noem v Al Otro Lado, a case with significant implications for the right to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border. Senator Ted Cruz misused my reporting in a amicus brief in the case. I had to set the record straight. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/2026/03/23/-...

Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case Noem v. Al Otro Lado, about the legal right to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border.

I was shocked to see my reporting used by Senator Ted Cruz to support the argument for blocking access: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/2026/03/23/-...

I lived in a building in 2012/2013 exactly at the center of that cloud of smoke caused by a recent Israeli air strike on Beirut. The neighborhood is packed with people and just steps from downtown.

Our investigation "Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza" has been short listed for a 2026 True Story Award!

Screen grab is from what the jury had to say. Read the investigation here: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

“Iran war: America’s shame and the continuing ruination of a region”

My latest for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editors-take...

“City of forced waiting”: Stuck at Mexico’s southern border Every day, people forced to flee countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are arriving in the city of Tapachula, with nowhere else to go.

Trump has made it nearly impossible to seek asylum in the US. What does that mean for people searching for safety and stability after being forced to flee their countries — often due to crises in which the US has a hand?

My report from Tapachula, Mexico www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2026...

A very good read by Adam Shatz over at @lrb.co.uk 👇🏼
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Compliant aid: Who are the Israel-approved NGOs scaling up in Gaza? As established groups that see advocacy as part of their mission are banned, a new cohort is being given preferential treatment to take their place.

NGOs currently being given access to Gaza have either bartered silence for access, or seem politically aligned with Israeli authorities.

Must read investigation by @sparksriley.bsky.social, with some truly eyebrow raising details 👇
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

Palestinian journalist Nour ElAssy on the “Board of Peace” and the attempt to shift the narrative on Gaza to a question of management rather than one of rights and accountability 👇🏼

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

I’ve been thinking about the last line of this @newyorker.com article about Bezos and the Washington Post since I read it a couple days ago. Really puts things (and not just the Post decision) in perspective.

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

How Netanyahu is sabotaging phase two of the Gaza ceasefire By undermining a new Palestinian technocratic body, Israel is trying to make Gaza appear ungovernable — and prove the need for its sustained military rule.

A really important (and stark) rundown of what's happening beyond the international headlines with Phase Two of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza from @972mag.com

www.972mag.com/gaza-ceasefi...

Palestinian journalist @rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social latest article on Trump’s Board of Peace and what’s been happening in Gaza as the world’s attention drifts away is an absolute must read: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Read Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud's latest article on Israel's banning of Gaza aid NGOs & Trump's so-called Board of Peace:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

Hobbled by obstruction and uncertainty: Gaza’s post-ceasefire aid response Palestinians still face extreme deprivation as Israel continues to restrict humanitarian activities amid international jockeying over the future.

Read this report about what's been happening with humanitarian aid efforts in Gaza since last month's ceasefire by @sparksriley.bsky.social & Ghada Abdulfattah. It paints a very different picture from narratives promoted by US & Israeli officials.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...

Return to Gaza City: Hope sprouts from the rubble Two months after being driven out of Gaza City, journalist Rasha Abou Jalal returns to try to build a new home amid uncertainty and destruction.

Palestinian journalist Rasha Abou Jalal kept a diary for The New Humanitarian in August and September as her family tried to resist being forced out of Gaza City by Israel's offensive. Now, she writes returning to her hometown after the ceasefire:

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Don’t look away: Two years of Israel’s war in Gaza in the words of its writers A selection of excerpts from first person pieces we have published from Gaza over the past two years of unimaginable violence and deprivation.

Over the past two years, The New Humanitarian has published 36+ first-person articles written by Palestinians in Gaza.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/first-person...

“A truce is not peace”: Experiencing Gaza’s ceasefire from exile In the media, a truce means the bombing is over. In Gaza, it’s a frightened breath. In exile, it’s the ache of survival, writes journalist Rita Baroud.

"I’m relieved they’re not being bombed right now, but a truce is not peace. It’s just a pause in death."

Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud on the ceasefire in Gaza: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Tears of joy, tears of sorrow and an end (hopefully) to Gaza’s long war Palestinian journalist Rasha Abou Jalal confronts the range of emotion among displaced people at the announcement of a ceasefire.

Read @rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social's article on the range of emotion sweeping the displacement camp where she is living in central Gaza following the announcement of a ceasefire:

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

I survived Israel's genocide in Gaza. This is what recognition of a Palestinian state means to me Recognition is meaningless while Gaza is starved, bombed, and occupied. What we need is action.

“The problem was never that Palestine lacked recognition. The problem is that Palestine lacks freedom and action.”

Essential reading from Nour ElAssy: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

What Makes Us Free? : Throughline What's the role of government in society? What do we mean when we talk about individual responsibility? What makes us free? 'Neoliberalism' might feel like a squishy term that's hard to define and und...

Been thinking about line from this podcast a lot recently:
"What neoliberalism has done is taken away that thing that secures and holds us in common... So what are we? We're little Hobbesian creatures: diffident, anxious, competitive, and in the end, a little murderous."

www.npr.org/2025/07/10/1...

“The steadfastness and will to stay broke”: Rasha Abou Jalal’s Gaza City diary, part two As Israel’s relentless assault continues, the desire to cling to a home that could soon be gone forever gives way to the instinct to survive.

Read @rasha-abou-jalal.bsky.social harrowing account of the past week in Gaza City and her family's forced displacement to the south.

"I wept because I love my city, Gaza, where I was born and raised, and today I am being forced to leave it."

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

Israel’s mass killing of Gaza aid seekers: An undeniable pattern of escalating atrocity crimes The nearly 200 attacks we recorded contribute to the growing evidence that Israel is committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

Also read @sparksriley.bsky.social analysis of how Israel has used attacks on people seeking aid in Gaza as a tactic to achieve specific goals – from deadly crowd control to forced displacement to the destruction of a people’s collective ability to survive: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

EXCLUSIVE: Israel has killed nearly 3,000 Gaza aid seekers Our interactive database shows nearly 200 attacks, and a sharp uptick since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began operations on 27 May.

Israeli forces have killed nearly 3,000 people attempting to get aid in the Gaza Strip & wounded almost 20,000 others. For over a year, @sparksriley.bsky.social tracked these attacks, which we just published as a publicly accessible database and timeline.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

“A battle of identity and existence”: Rasha Abou Jalal’s Gaza City diary As Israel invades the main city in the enclave, a family clings on to a home they fear could soon be gone forever.

Don't look away.

Read Rasha Abou Jalal's intimate and harrowing diary from Gaza City as the Israeli military intensifies its assault.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...