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🎥 AOAV’s film Voice Notes from Palestine gives Palestinian students with disabilities in Gaza a platform to tell their own stories of life under siege and bombardment. One participant, Aya Kafafi, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2024.
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Two men convicted in UK of trying to send weapons to conflict zones
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UN warns civilian protection in war failing, citing AOAV’s data on how explosive violence continues to devastate cities aoav.org.uk/2026/un-warns-ci…
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Their resignations have been treated by much of the UK press as justified. But can Britain afford its military ambitions, overseas bases, and ever-growing defence demands? Is this, in the end, an echo chamber that assumes more spending = more security?
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For Healey and Carns, enough was never enough in the world of defence spending aoav.org.uk/2026/for-healey-…
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For Healey and Carns, enough was never enough in the world of defence spending
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Patterns of civilian harm, displacement, and institutional targeting by Israel of Lebanon, October 2023 to June 2026: a data-driven assessment of the war’s human impact
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🎥 AOAV’s film Voice Notes from Palestine gives Palestinian students with disabilities in Gaza a platform to tell their own stories of life under siege and bombardment. One participant, Aya Kafafi, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2024.
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People with disabilities face heightened risks in war: loss of assistive devices, barriers to evacuation, disrupted healthcare, and greater exposure to violence. In Gaza, damaged infrastructure and repeated displacement have made these challenges even more acute.
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Israel, as a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, has obligations to protect Palestinians with disabilities. Voice Notes from Palestine highlights the human impact of the conflict through first-hand testimony.
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In our first joint work, @Michael_Spagat & I take a deep dive into the Lebanese casualty count since October 8 2023 in a new article published in @AOAV.
Casualties, demographics and health care sector impact due to Israeli attacks on Lebanon is summarized below in Table 1.
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Patterns of civilian harm, displacement, and institutional targeting by Israel of Lebanon, October 2023 to June 2026: a data-driven assessment of the war’s human impact aoav.org.uk/2026/patterns-of…
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For years, Israel's strategy in Gaza was to "mow the grass": periodic military operations designed to weaken Hamas without addressing the political roots of the conflict. Our analysis argues that this doctrine did not deliver security.Rather, it entrenched a cycle of violence, strategic drift and humanitarian catastrophe, culminating in profound failure for Israelis and Palestinians alike. Read more: aoav.org.uk/2026/how-israeli…
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A new analysis of the war in Lebanon by @Michael_Spagat and Nicolas Sawaya for @aoav finds that between 8 Oct 2023 and 7 June 2026, Israeli strikes killed at least 8,246 people and wounded 29,312. They identified five distinct phases of conflict, with two so-called "ceasefire" periods still marked by significant levels of killing.
Patterns of civilian harm, displacement, and institutional targeting by Israel of Lebanon, October 2023 to June 2026: a data-driven assessment of the war’s human impact
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Their report documents at least 403 attacks on emergency medical services and 161 attacks on hospitals and primary healthcare centres. Since October 2023, at least 348 health workers have been killed and 713 wounded. Researchers argue the pattern is consistent with systematic targeting of protected medical infrastructure.
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Thire study also finds major gaps between official casualty records and claims made by both Israel and Hizballah about the number of fighters killed. Because those claims cannot be reconciled with available data, the researchers conclude that no reliable civilian-to-combatant ratio can currently be established.
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The British bases behind the bombs: how much has the UK enabled US strikes on Iran? aoav.org.uk/2026/the-british…
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