Journalist. Staff Editor & Reporter @NewHumanitarian. Focus on migration. Other bylines @WIRED @NewRepublic @MotherJones @thenation & others.
Joined December 2012
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25 Apr 2023
1000s of people stranded in northern Mexico by US policies are living in makeshift camps in tents made of tree branches, blankets, tarps, and garbage bags – and the situation is poised to get worse. My latest for @newhumanitarian from the US-Mexico border: thenewhumanitarian.org/news-…
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For a few days, a patchwork system to get food into northern Gaza was working. Then, the Israeli military began what appear to be a series of targeted strikes on people helping with the aid. ➡️ This @newhumanitarian investigation pieces it together: thenewhumanitarian.org/inves…
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3 Dec 2024
A must-read to understand how emergency aid for starving people in northern Gaza became impossible. Killings, gangs, and lawless looting didn't happen by accident. This @newhumanitarian investigation shows how Israeli forces systematically destroyed aid. thenewhumanitarian.org/inves…
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3 Dec 2024
Our @newhumanitarian 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.
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3 Dec 2024
As northern Gaza hurtled toward famine earlier this year, UN agencies partnered with local communities to deliver aid to the north of Gaza. For a few days the plan worked before a series of Israeli strikes brought it crashing down. This is the untold story: ⬇️
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11 Nov 2024
"More people will die"
The impact of the Israeli ban of @UNRWA on people in Gaza and Beyond by @Eric_Reidy in @newhumanitarian
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31 Oct 2024
The crises in #Sudan and #Gaza have made it abundantly clear that the current systems of global humanitarianism are failing.
Last September at #UNGA79, we joined the @newhumanitarian @cftchange to challenge these failings head on. More from @Eric_Reidy.
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30 Oct 2024
“If Israel wanted every child in Gaza to have breakfast tomorrow morning, it would do it. I think we just have to ask, why is it not doing it?” Alex de Waal on a panel during last month's UN high-level week via @Eric_Reidy @newhumanitarian:
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29 Oct 2024
'Israel just wants UNRWA to go away, hoping that that will undermine the whole claim of Palestinians having a right to return.'
Read our March in-depth look at Israel's efforts to dismantle the UN's agency for Palestine refugees:
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20 Aug 2024
Read this powerful first-person story by Rita Baroud, a 21-year-old journalist from Gaza City, Palestine for The New Humanitarian. It reads like Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel "The Road" – except it's real life.
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22 Jul 2024
How Israel's invasion of #Rafah practically collapsed the aid response in #Gaza. Must read by @newhumanitarian on how the Gaza aid response was "shot through the knees" w/ comments from myself and other aid officials. #CeasefireNOW
22 Jul 2024
‘Shot through the knees’: How the Rafah invasion broke Gaza’s aid response. Israel’s invasion of Rafah at the beginning of May upended already limited aid efforts in the Gaza Strip. They have yet to recover.
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17 Jul 2024
The Pentagon just officially announced that its Gaza aid pier has been permanently shut down. Here's my analysis for @newhumanitarian of why the ill-conceived project, which cost $230m and delivered only one day's worth of aid, was doomed from the start:
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16 Jul 2024
"It was a boondoggle from start to finish." @JeremyKonyndyk
Billed as an effort to drastically increase the amount of aid entering the enclave, the #Gaza pier project was mired in controversy from the onset. Read more from @Eric_Reidy @newhumanitarian
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16 Jul 2024
The US is shutting down it's Gaza aid pier. The project was a distraction that did not address the real issues preventing a meaningful humanitarian response – the conduct of the Israeli military and its siege of Gaza.
My latest for @newhumanitarian
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10 Jul 2024
If overwhelming evidence isn’t enough to move the needle, what else is needed to force Greece to end this cycle of border violations?- I wrote an article about this for @thenewhumanitarian edited by @Eric_Reidy
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9 May 2024
I spoke to Sam Rose of @UNRWA about the situation on the ground in Rafah and how Israel's escalating attacks on the city are affecting civilians and the ability of humanitarian organizations to continue their already hobbled aid response
9 May 2024
“Everyone will have lost everything if this goes ahead, and there’s very little we can do as a humanitarian community.” What will happen if Israel launches a full-scale invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza?
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30 Apr 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Israeli military demolished homes to make way for US Gaza aid pier. The destruction of civilian property to make way for a politically and logistically contentious aid delivery project could violate international law: ⬇️ thenewhumanitarian.org/news-…
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30 Apr 2024
‘Our feelings are very difficult as we talk about seeing the rubble of our homes being used to build this port, without even taking into consideration our memories and our lives.’ @muhammadshehad2 @EuroMedHR thenewhumanitarian.org/news-…
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18 Apr 2024
1. We spent months investigating how European countries wrongfully classify children seeking asylum as adults. @isobelvthompson @we_are_solomon @IPapangeli This resource-intensive piece was edited by @Eric_Reidy & supported by #IJ4EU
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23 Feb 2024
"We met countless seasoned #aid workers who told us the same thing:
#Gaza is the worst #humanitarian situation they have ever seen"
IDC Chair @SarahChampionMP writes in @newhumanitarian today
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2 Feb 2024
This is a great podcast episode from @newhumanitarian. @Eric_Reidy with a pessimistic outlook on migration & borders developments this year 2024. But he also points to ways out of the political misery. 🎧 👇
1 Feb 2024
“Migration itself isn't a crisis. It's a normal part of human history and societies. It has benefits,” says @Eric_Reidy on a new episode of the What’s Unsaid podcast, discussing deaths and negative narratives around migration. Listen here ⬇️
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