Sari Bashi
@saribashi.bsky.social
Writer, human rights lawyer, ex Program Director @hrw.org, author of מקלובה-אהבה הפוכה & Umm Forat blog (www.ummforat.com), cofounder of gisha.org, ultramarathoner, lover of freedom of movement in Gaza and beyond.
UN & other experienced groups want to distribute aid throughout Gaza, but the Israeli govt is blocking their supply. They refuse to participate in the new plan.
@nytimes.com today reveals Israeli backing for the new "aid" group, which has no such qualms. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w...
@nytimes.com today reveals Israeli backing for the new "aid" group, which has no such qualms. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w...
New Gaza Aid Plan, Bypassing U.N. and Billed as Neutral, Originated in Israel
www.nytimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
UN & other experienced groups want to distribute aid throughout Gaza, but the Israeli govt is blocking their supply. They refuse to participate in the new plan.
@nytimes.com today reveals Israeli backing for the new "aid" group, which has no such qualms. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w...
@nytimes.com today reveals Israeli backing for the new "aid" group, which has no such qualms. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/w...
Last year, Israel used aid as a tool to force Palestinians to leave northern Gaza by blocking aid there but allowing some in the south. It now says aid will be allowed just in policed zones in the south, forcing people to leave the north in order to eat. www.npr.org/2024/10/15/n...
Israel threatens to starve out northern Gaza, U.N. aid agencies say
Israel has allowed almost no food aid into north Gaza for two weeks. Humanitarian groups say it leaves 400,000 people with the choice of eventual starvation or fleeing their homes to the south.
www.npr.org
May 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Last year, Israel used aid as a tool to force Palestinians to leave northern Gaza by blocking aid there but allowing some in the south. It now says aid will be allowed just in policed zones in the south, forcing people to leave the north in order to eat. www.npr.org/2024/10/15/n...
Israeli govt ministers say they'll depopulate Gaza & settle it with Jews, echoing Trump's call to displace Palestinians. Israel's military made 80% of Gaza a no-go zone & told civilians to leave, but there's no safe place to go & no safe way to get there. www.hrw.org/report/2024/...
“Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged”
The 154-page report, “‘Hopeless, Starving, and Besieged’: Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in Gaza,” examines how Israeli authorities’ conduct has led to the displacement of over 90 percen...
www.hrw.org
May 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Israeli govt ministers say they'll depopulate Gaza & settle it with Jews, echoing Trump's call to displace Palestinians. Israel's military made 80% of Gaza a no-go zone & told civilians to leave, but there's no safe place to go & no safe way to get there. www.hrw.org/report/2024/...
Since the start of the war 597 days ago the Israeli gov't has used starvation as a weapon of war, blocking aid & using it as leverage against Hamas. 1/5 of Gaza's 2 million people, nearly half of whom are children, face starvation. gisha.org/en/aid-acces...
gisha.org
May 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Since the start of the war 597 days ago the Israeli gov't has used starvation as a weapon of war, blocking aid & using it as leverage against Hamas. 1/5 of Gaza's 2 million people, nearly half of whom are children, face starvation. gisha.org/en/aid-acces...
Al-Khalasa helps us understand the problem but also the solution: More than 2/3 of Gaza's 2.3 million residents are refugees & their descendants from what's now Israel. Trump & Netanyahu don't need to find 3rd countries to take them in. They need to respect their right to return.
May 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Al-Khalasa helps us understand the problem but also the solution: More than 2/3 of Gaza's 2.3 million residents are refugees & their descendants from what's now Israel. Trump & Netanyahu don't need to find 3rd countries to take them in. They need to respect their right to return.
Today, Israeli forces continue to destroy towns & displace residents in Gaza, openly endorsing Trump's call to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza. It's part of the same racial superiority logic behind the 1948 Naqba & it won't end when the fighting stops in Gaza- if it ever does.
May 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Today, Israeli forces continue to destroy towns & displace residents in Gaza, openly endorsing Trump's call to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza. It's part of the same racial superiority logic behind the 1948 Naqba & it won't end when the fighting stops in Gaza- if it ever does.
77 years later, we know the displacement, destruction and denial of the right to return were part of a well-planned policy to ensure Israeli Jewish dominance over Palestinians, including demographic superiority, through apartheid. This was al-Khalasa's school, also destroyed.
May 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
77 years later, we know the displacement, destruction and denial of the right to return were part of a well-planned policy to ensure Israeli Jewish dominance over Palestinians, including demographic superiority, through apartheid. This was al-Khalasa's school, also destroyed.
Al-Khalasa is one of hundreds of Palestinian villages ethnically cleansed in 1948, as the fledgling Israeli state sought to maximize the land under its control while minimizing the number of Palestinians living there. This was the flour mill, a regional resource at the time.
May 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Al-Khalasa is one of hundreds of Palestinian villages ethnically cleansed in 1948, as the fledgling Israeli state sought to maximize the land under its control while minimizing the number of Palestinians living there. This was the flour mill, a regional resource at the time.