Eric Reidy
@Eric_Reidy
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Journalist. Staff Editor & Reporter @NewHumanitarian. Focus on migration. Other bylines @WIRED @NewRepublic @MotherJones @thenation & others.
Joined December 2012
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:
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Rights activists have long called for the scrapping of Title 42, but what’s coming next for asylum seekers and migrants could be even worse.
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Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza: https://t.co/qog0nxKaDx (@newhumanitarian)
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Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.
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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:
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Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.
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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.
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Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.
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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. https://t.co/6tZm1t4gmO
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Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.
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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"More people will die" The impact of the Israeli ban of @UNRWA on people in Gaza and Beyond by @Eric_Reidy in @newhumanitarian
https://t.co/GWbNRawhkY
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We spoke to Juliette Touma, communications director of the UN’s agency for Palestine refugees, about the existential crisis it is facing.
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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. https://t.co/ZFXqQi2ERC
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The systems designed to prevent the worst effects of conflict on civilians are utterly failing. What next?
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“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: https://t.co/Wh7QbAaGGB
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The systems designed to prevent the worst effects of conflict on civilians are utterly failing. What next?
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'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: https://t.co/zu8T8H1GGH
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The UN’s agency for Palestine refugees has long been a lightning rod for controversy. Now, Israel is intensifying efforts to dismantle it.
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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. https://t.co/EyXob6jxsS
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A 21-year-old journalist opens a window into daily life for Palestinians struggling to survive Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
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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
‘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. https://t.co/pPU9dsw4VK
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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: https://t.co/9icDuf8pBt
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The ill-fated project was beset from the start by unrealistic expectations and logistical problems.
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"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
https://t.co/kWWUJQd6ap
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The ill-fated project was beset from the start by unrealistic expectations and logistical problems.
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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
https://t.co/9icDuf7RLV
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The ill-fated project was beset from the start by unrealistic expectations and logistical problems.
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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
https://t.co/60I2H4pcFx
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A year ago, an investigation proved that Greece was violating international law by forcing asylum seekers back to Türkiye. Has anything changed?
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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
“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? https://t.co/j0nSIPcZUW
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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: ⬇️
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The destruction of civilian property to make way for a politically and logistically contentious aid delivery project could violate international law.
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‘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 https://t.co/e9g7NuNKPw
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The destruction of civilian property to make way for a politically and logistically contentious aid delivery project could violate international law.
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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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https://t.co/aflp8nnwye
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Thousands of children seeking protection in Greece, Italy, and Britain have likely been registered as adults – a failure with serious consequences.
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"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 📖👉🏾 https://t.co/iJQpiBWWXI
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The situation is already unbearable but it is about to get much worse, UK MP Sarah Champion writes following a visit to Egypt’s border with Gaza.
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