Riley Sparks
@sparksriley.bsky.social
Journalist. Migration/borders, human rights & aid. Work in The New Humanitarian etc. Research @ Canada Press Freedom Project.
Signal: sparksriley.01
sparksriley@gmail.com
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Signal: sparksriley.01
sparksriley@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/sparksriley
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Ghada Abdulfattah and @sparksriley.bsky.social for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on the ways Israel continues to throttle aid to Gaza, even post-ceasefire: 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.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Ghada Abdulfattah and @sparksriley.bsky.social for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on the ways Israel continues to throttle aid to Gaza, even post-ceasefire: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...
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THREAD: What does it mean to seek food in Gaza today? For many Palestinians, it means risking death. These are the stories behind the hundreds killed. #Gaza #HumanRights www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
August 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM
THREAD: What does it mean to seek food in Gaza today? For many Palestinians, it means risking death. These are the stories behind the hundreds killed. #Gaza #HumanRights www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...
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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...
"Maybe they will say they did not know. But we will know the truth: They knew. They all knew. And they chose to look away."
“The war that never ended returns to Gaza”. Palestinian journalist Nour ElAssy writes about the shattering of a ceasefire that brought anything but the relief she had hoped for.
The war that never ended returns to Gaza
Palestinian journalist Nour ElAssy writes about the shattering of a ceasefire that brought anything but the relief she had hoped for.
buff.ly
March 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
"Maybe they will say they did not know. But we will know the truth: They knew. They all knew. And they chose to look away."
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Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
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Our @newhumanitarian.bsky.social investigation exposes how Israel targeted aid and starved Gaza.
We spent 7 mths piecing together how UN developed this plan with communities in northern Gaza & how Israel destroyed it.
Please read and distribute widely.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
We spent 7 mths piecing together how UN developed this plan with communities in northern Gaza & how Israel destroyed it.
Please read and distribute widely.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza
Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 3, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Our @newhumanitarian.bsky.social investigation exposes how Israel targeted aid and starved Gaza.
We spent 7 mths piecing together how UN developed this plan with communities in northern Gaza & how Israel destroyed it.
Please read and distribute widely.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
We spent 7 mths piecing together how UN developed this plan with communities in northern Gaza & how Israel destroyed it.
Please read and distribute widely.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...