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Briefing
Female genital mutilation among Sudanese displaced populations in Egypt ar
A Key Considerations brief considering the drivers and dynamics of FGM practices in the context of forced displacement to inform culturally sensitive strategies for FGM prevention and response.
Briefing
Mutual aid lessons and experiences from Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan arfr
A Key Considerations brief based on the first case study of the volunteer networks known as Emergency Response Rooms, conducted June to August 2024.
Infographic
Alleviating chronic food insecurity in South Sudan arfr
This infographic summarises the Key Considerations briefing on responding to food insecurity in South Sudan, highlighting the importance of investment in agriculture and livelihoods, market access and infrastructure, and promoting sustainable peace.
Report
Scarcity and fear: A gender analysis of the impact of the war in Gaza on vital services essential to women’s and girls’ health, safety, and dignity – water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
One in a series of UN Women gender alerts begun at the start of the war in Gaza, this one focusing on WASH services.
Blog
Gaza is not a humanitarian crisis: on self-defence, depoliticising language, and contextualisation
A 'Public Anthropologist' blog by Heidi Mogstad, a researcher for the 'War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience' research project.
Comment
Why ‘Framing Gaza’?
Allegra essayists write that the facts of war can no longer be disputed; instead, what is at stake is how violence and harm are framed.
Research paper
Health in the crossfire – Analyzing and mitigating the multifaceted health risks of the 2023 war on Gaza
This paper examines the multifaceted and escalating health risks associated with the ongoing war in Gaza, employing a systems thinking approach to understand and address these complex challenges.
Research paper
Mitigating risks of slow children development due to war on Gaza 2023
This paper explores multifaceted approaches to mitigate severe risks to children's physical, cognitive, emotional and social development, emphasising the need for comprehensive support systems for children in conflict zones.
Research paper
Children on the Gaza-Israel border: Victims of war
This commentary highlights the impact of armed conflict on children at the Gaza-Israel border.
Briefing
Alleviating chronic food insecurity in South Sudan arfr
This Key Considerations brief analyses the causes of food insecurity in South Sudan and the responses by government and non-government actors and partners, and offers considerations for these actors to support ending food insecurity, especially via bolstering agriculture and livelihoods.
Research paper
Psychosocial concerns in a context of prolonged political oppression: Gaza mental health providers’ perceptions
This qualitative exploratory study investigated the perspectives of mental health providers in Gaza regarding the primary concerns of their clients who are exposed to low-intensity warfare and structural violence.
Research paper
Coping with trauma and adversity among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip: A qualitative, culture-informed analysis
In this article, the authors propose that coping is not only an individual property but also a structural feature.
Report
‘Stop the war and let me return to my home, even if it is destroyed.’ Community priorities and perceptions of aid and support in Gaza (January 2024)
This report contains insights from a Ground Truth Solutions and Arab World for Research and Development study talking to people in Gaza to find out what the humanitarian situation looked like from their perspective.
Blog
A Palestinian poet’s perilous journey out of Gaza ar
A 'letter from Gaza' from Mosab Abu Toha, who fled his home with his wife and three children, before the IDF soldiers took him into custody.
Blog
In the face of genocide, the intifada must be globalised
Chloe Skinners writes that the ‘shaking off’ of colonial dynamics of racism, violence, dehumanisation and division must be globalised.
Blog
Contextualising Gaza: Colonial violence and occupation
Chloe Skinner, Philip Proudfoot and Ali Reda write that while 7 October events precipitated a declaration of war, it is paramount to remember that a constant state of war, displacement and oppression has shaped Palestinian reality for over seven decades.
Blog
Tectonic shifts: A conversation with Darryl Li
A conversation about the unfolding crisis in Gaza and some of its wider implications for the Palestinian struggle and the solidarity movement..
Blog
Language is a powerful weapon in the Israel-Palestine conflict
Ammara Maqsood and Amandas Ong describe how the terminology of the powerful too often trivialises war, dehumanises those who suffer and erases the past.
Blog
Voices from Gaza
Translated transcripts of personal text messages, voice notes, and social media posts Gazan friends and loved ones have managed to send.
Research paper
The anthropological rise of Palestine
This article traces the rise of anthropological scholarship on Palestine and/or Palestinians from 2011, providing a comprehensive bibliography of anthropological publications related to Palestine over that period.
Blog
War on Palestine
In this blog post, Cultural Anthropology gathers together published articles on Palestine/Israel.
Report
Trapped: The impact of 15 years of blockade on the mental health of Gaza’s children
A Child's Rights Resource Centre report on the impact that living through five escalations in violence and a pandemic, as well as a life-limiting land, air and sea blockade, has had on children’s psychosocial wellbeing.
Blog
Beyond grief: To love and stay with those who die in our arms
Devin G. Atallah asks, 'What does it take to love our babies, our living, and our dead in the midst of Israel's genocidal colonial conquest?'
Factsheet
Frequently asked questions on ICRC’s work in Israel and the occupied territories
This web page aims to make information accessible to all those who feel the ICRC can help them, as well as address frequently asked questions about ICRC's work and international humanitarian law.
Article
Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel’s starvation of Gaza
An interview with the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the US, and an expert of famine and humanitarian crises.
Multimedia
From Israel’s blockade to the siege on Al Shifa Hospital: Public health in Gaza
In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP's Sarah Anne Minkin speaks with 2023 FMEP Palestinian Non-Resident Fellow Dr. Yara Asi about public health in Gaza.
Research paper
State of the health-care system in Gaza during the Israel–Hamas war
This article details how the Israel–Hamas conflict has exacerbated a health care system in an already critical condition.
Article
The humanitarian health effects of the Israel-Hamas war among Gaza civilians
Frayed health care and an overwhelmed global humanitarian system imperil the health of civilians in Gaza, cautions John Hopkins University expert Paul Spiegel.
Policy document
On the brink: War and public health in Gaza ar
A document detailing Gaza's urgent and immediate need for all necessities of life, including recommendations of public health priorities.
Multimedia
Health crises in Palestine – Panel Discussion
A FAIR network panel discussion with panellists Professor Yara M. Asi, Halla Keir, Professor Francesco Checchi and Zeina Jamaluddine, chaired by Professor Shelley Lees.
Research paper
Social and political determinants of health in the occupied Palestine territory (oPt) during the COVID-19 pandemic: who is responsible?
This article discusses the situation after the Palestinian authority reacted to the coronavirus outbreak, introducing strict lock down measures to limit community transmission.
Background report
War in the Gaza Strip: Public health situation analysis
A public health situation analysis concerning the population living within the Gaza Strip and affected by the acute emergency resulting from large-scale military operations by Israel and Hamas.
Article
Gaza conflict: how children’s lives are affected on every level
An article describing how children living in Gaza have never known anything but overcrowding, shortages, conflict and danger.
Report
Participatory vulnerability analysis in the north of the Gaza Strip
This report draws on a workshop, focus group discussions and key informant interviews to understand the vulnerability of communities and livelihoods in the northern Gaza Strip, including how this enabled the design of resilience-oriented actions.
Report
Gender alert: The gendered impact of the crisis in Gaza ar
This document provides an overview of the situation in Gaza and articulates UN Women’s work as part of its six-month multisectoral response to the crisis.
Research paper
Gender relations and power dynamics in WFP Palestine beneficiary households study – WFP and UN Women 2022
A study to assess gender dynamics and power relations in WFP Palestine beneficiary households and propose recommendations to improve the gender transformative potential of WFP programming.
