Eric Reidy
@ericreidy.bsky.social
Editor & Reporter for The New Humanitarian, covering migration and Gaza. What I’m reading/listening to, editing, & writing.
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...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...
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.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...
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...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
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.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Over the past two years, The New Humanitarian has published 36+ first-person articles written by Palestinians in Gaza.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/first-person...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/first-person...
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.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Over the past two years, The New Humanitarian has published 36+ first-person articles written by Palestinians in Gaza.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/first-person...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/first-person...
"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...
Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud on the ceasefire in Gaza: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
“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.
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October 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"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...
Palestinian journalist Rita Baroud on the ceasefire in Gaza: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
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...
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.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
“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...
Essential reading from Nour ElAssy: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
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.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“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...
Essential reading from Nour ElAssy: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
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...
"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...
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...
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September 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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...
"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...
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...
"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...
“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.
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September 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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...
"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...
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...
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.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
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...
Read Rasha Abou Jalal's intimate and harrowing diary from Gaza City as the Israeli military intensifies its assault.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
“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.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
September 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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...
Read Rasha Abou Jalal's intimate and harrowing diary from Gaza City as the Israeli military intensifies its assault.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Reposted by Eric Reidy
Arrests of Sudanese refugees involved in organising protests against dismal conditions and lack of resettlement opportunities on 21 August in Agadez, Niger "may constitute an enforced disappearance", according to the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders.
Niger arrests six Sudanese refugees in raid on Agadez camp
Most of the 1,900 people in the camp fled war in Sudan only to become stranded in poor conditions while seeking resettlement to a third country.
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August 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Arrests of Sudanese refugees involved in organising protests against dismal conditions and lack of resettlement opportunities on 21 August in Agadez, Niger "may constitute an enforced disappearance", according to the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders.
Another message from journalist Rasha Abou Jalal in Gaza
"I was deeply saddened today by the killing of journalist Maryam Abu Daqqa. Maryam was my friend...She loved photographing food, restaurants and the sea."
Maryam was one of four journalists killed today in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital
"I was deeply saddened today by the killing of journalist Maryam Abu Daqqa. Maryam was my friend...She loved photographing food, restaurants and the sea."
Maryam was one of four journalists killed today in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital
August 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Another message from journalist Rasha Abou Jalal in Gaza
"I was deeply saddened today by the killing of journalist Maryam Abu Daqqa. Maryam was my friend...She loved photographing food, restaurants and the sea."
Maryam was one of four journalists killed today in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital
"I was deeply saddened today by the killing of journalist Maryam Abu Daqqa. Maryam was my friend...She loved photographing food, restaurants and the sea."
Maryam was one of four journalists killed today in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital
One message I received today from Rasha About Jalal, a journalist I work with in Gaza:
"I see fear and terror on the faces of people here in Gaza… they feel that danger and invasion are inevitable... Israeli drones are dropping bombs on the rooftops of people’s homes to force them to flee south."
"I see fear and terror on the faces of people here in Gaza… they feel that danger and invasion are inevitable... Israeli drones are dropping bombs on the rooftops of people’s homes to force them to flee south."
August 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
One message I received today from Rasha About Jalal, a journalist I work with in Gaza:
"I see fear and terror on the faces of people here in Gaza… they feel that danger and invasion are inevitable... Israeli drones are dropping bombs on the rooftops of people’s homes to force them to flee south."
"I see fear and terror on the faces of people here in Gaza… they feel that danger and invasion are inevitable... Israeli drones are dropping bombs on the rooftops of people’s homes to force them to flee south."
From this week's @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Cheat Sheet.
Read Rasha's article here:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Read Rasha's article here:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
August 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
From this week's @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Cheat Sheet.
Read Rasha's article here:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Read Rasha's article here:
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Hello @longreads.com
Please consider Rita Baroud's three part diary about surviving 570 days of genocide in Gaza, evacuating, and then navigating survivor's guilt while beginning to adjust to life in France for your editor's picks section.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Please consider Rita Baroud's three part diary about surviving 570 days of genocide in Gaza, evacuating, and then navigating survivor's guilt while beginning to adjust to life in France for your editor's picks section.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Rita’s Gaza evacuation diary, part one: The final weeks were the hardest
A series of articles chronicling journalist Rita Baroud’s evacuation from Gaza in her own words.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
August 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hello @longreads.com
Please consider Rita Baroud's three part diary about surviving 570 days of genocide in Gaza, evacuating, and then navigating survivor's guilt while beginning to adjust to life in France for your editor's picks section.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Please consider Rita Baroud's three part diary about surviving 570 days of genocide in Gaza, evacuating, and then navigating survivor's guilt while beginning to adjust to life in France for your editor's picks section.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
"Residents of Gaza City are once again living under the threat of displacement... Most conversations I overhear are about whether to head south or stay no matter the consequences."
Urgent from Rasha Abou Jalal from Gaza City as Israel threatens to invade: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Urgent from Rasha Abou Jalal from Gaza City as Israel threatens to invade: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Will we ever return? Facing down Israel’s invasion of Gaza City
Flee to an uncertain fate of potentially permanent displacement or stay and risk death. This is the impossible choice confronting me and my family.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
August 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Residents of Gaza City are once again living under the threat of displacement... Most conversations I overhear are about whether to head south or stay no matter the consequences."
Urgent from Rasha Abou Jalal from Gaza City as Israel threatens to invade: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Urgent from Rasha Abou Jalal from Gaza City as Israel threatens to invade: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
A secret meeting earlier this month between UN agencies, international aid organisations, and the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been met with a mixture of outrage and disbelief by humanitarian figures and observers.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...
Outcry as aid sector risks normalising the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
A secret meeting with the GHF has fuelled fears that the humanitarian system is being bent to serve the interests of the United States and Israel.
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August 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A secret meeting earlier this month between UN agencies, international aid organisations, and the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been met with a mixture of outrage and disbelief by humanitarian figures and observers.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...
“Refugees are wrongly treated as a crisis, while the real crisis is a system that approaches protecting human life as optional and stopping movement across borders as essential.”
Urgent view on global refugee protection, by Mustafa Alio & Rez Gardi
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
Urgent view on global refugee protection, by Mustafa Alio & Rez Gardi
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
Protection or prevention? The global refugee system is at a crossroads
The infrastructure of refugee protection is being retooled to stop people from moving, not to help them survive displacement.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
August 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“Refugees are wrongly treated as a crisis, while the real crisis is a system that approaches protecting human life as optional and stopping movement across borders as essential.”
Urgent view on global refugee protection, by Mustafa Alio & Rez Gardi
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
Urgent view on global refugee protection, by Mustafa Alio & Rez Gardi
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
Read this painfully beautiful article by Sumaya Yasser Saleh about the things Israel's brutal assault on life in Gaza has taken from her that will never be recorded in two-dimensional tallies of death and destruction and the meaning of survival.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Fragments of survival: A Gaza woman’s chronicle of unseen loss
Sumaya Yasser Saleh’s dreams have been progressively crushed by Israel’s brutal onslaught. Now she is asking herself: What does it mean to survive?
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
August 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Read this painfully beautiful article by Sumaya Yasser Saleh about the things Israel's brutal assault on life in Gaza has taken from her that will never be recorded in two-dimensional tallies of death and destruction and the meaning of survival.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Every word of this demands to be read. Read it out loud to yourself. Find a loved one or friend, read it to them. Let the weight of each sentence sink in.
"I don’t want to be used as a symbol of triumphant survival. Yes, I survived – but I am not okay."
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
"I don’t want to be used as a symbol of triumphant survival. Yes, I survived – but I am not okay."
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Rita’s Gaza evacuation diary, part three: I survived, but I haven’t truly left
A series of articles chronicling journalist Rita Baroud’s evacuation from Gaza in her own words.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
July 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Every word of this demands to be read. Read it out loud to yourself. Find a loved one or friend, read it to them. Let the weight of each sentence sink in.
"I don’t want to be used as a symbol of triumphant survival. Yes, I survived – but I am not okay."
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
"I don’t want to be used as a symbol of triumphant survival. Yes, I survived – but I am not okay."
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
"I had once hoped that the great iron gate of Evin would fall – not from an airstrike, but opened by the people... That the fall of that gate would be a celebration, not a mourning."
Read this first-person by former prisoner Saeedeh Fathi: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Read this first-person by former prisoner Saeedeh Fathi: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
I had hoped that the gate of Iran’s Evin prison would be opened by the people
For former political prisoner Saeedeh Fathi, Israel’s strike on the ultimate symbol of the Iranian regime’s oppression stirred complicated emotions.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
July 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"I had once hoped that the great iron gate of Evin would fall – not from an airstrike, but opened by the people... That the fall of that gate would be a celebration, not a mourning."
Read this first-person by former prisoner Saeedeh Fathi: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Read this first-person by former prisoner Saeedeh Fathi: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Tammam Aloudat, @newhumanitarian.bsky.social's CEO, with a bold call to action for humanitarian organizations:
1) Take Western governments to court over complicity in Israeli atrocities
2) Assemble a massive flotilla to break the blockade of Gaza
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
1) Take Western governments to court over complicity in Israeli atrocities
2) Assemble a massive flotilla to break the blockade of Gaza
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
Why humanitarians must act to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza
With all other actors abdicating responsibility, a broad coalition of aid organisations must take bold steps to halt Israeli atrocities.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Tammam Aloudat, @newhumanitarian.bsky.social's CEO, with a bold call to action for humanitarian organizations:
1) Take Western governments to court over complicity in Israeli atrocities
2) Assemble a massive flotilla to break the blockade of Gaza
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
1) Take Western governments to court over complicity in Israeli atrocities
2) Assemble a massive flotilla to break the blockade of Gaza
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
From this week's @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Cheat Sheet.
Read Rita's article here: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Read Rita's article here: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
July 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
From this week's @newhumanitarian.bsky.social Cheat Sheet.
Read Rita's article here: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Read Rita's article here: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Every word of Rita Baroud's latest article for The New Humanitarian demands to be read, their magnitude absorbed.
"Gaza is not a memory. It is a pulse inside me that will not stop. I feel like I am still there, caught between the rubble and the fire."
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
"Gaza is not a memory. It is a pulse inside me that will not stop. I feel like I am still there, caught between the rubble and the fire."
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Rita’s Gaza evacuation diary, part two: Crossing the gate to exile
A series of articles chronicling journalist Rita Baroud’s evacuation from Gaza in her own words.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
July 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Every word of Rita Baroud's latest article for The New Humanitarian demands to be read, their magnitude absorbed.
"Gaza is not a memory. It is a pulse inside me that will not stop. I feel like I am still there, caught between the rubble and the fire."
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
"Gaza is not a memory. It is a pulse inside me that will not stop. I feel like I am still there, caught between the rubble and the fire."
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Another absolutely critical, must-read in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social's "Don't look away" series of first-person articles from Gaza. This one by 22-year-old Hani Qarmoot on facing gunfire to get flour.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
Under fire for flour: A night of survival in Gaza
Hani Qarmoot, a 22-year-old writer, recounts risking his life to get flour from one of the rare aid convoys Israel has allowed into northern Gaza.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
July 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Another absolutely critical, must-read in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social's "Don't look away" series of first-person articles from Gaza. This one by 22-year-old Hani Qarmoot on facing gunfire to get flour.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...