Jan Egeland
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Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council @NRC_Norway @Flyktninghjelp
Oslo, Norway
Joined August 2013
All eyes must be on Al Fashir, Sudan. The international community must send a clear message: further attacks on civilians, aid workers, or essential services will not be tolerated. Thousands remain trapped under siege, running out of food, water & medicine. We call on all
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This week in the West Bank, I have witnessed how Israeli settler violence is driving vulnerable Palestinian communities from their homes. Courageous NRC colleagues are active on the ground and working to support communities at existential threat. But the international community
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Humanitarian leader Jan Egeland has just returned from his latest trip to the West Bank, where he says Israel is entrenching its occupation of Palestinian land each day. "You see how the place is annexed and the occupation deepens," says @NRC_Egeland.
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Gaza: $50 million worth of essential aid from operational NGOs — food, medical supplies, hygiene items, and shelter materials — remain stuck at crossings and warehouses, unable to reach those in need. Vulnerable Palestinians in Gaza's ruins are now bracing for winter, in
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See more about the forcible transfer threats facing communities here, and what NRC is doing to help: https://t.co/prWSM3jm29
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Occupied East Jerusalem, where NRC is providing legal support to Palestinians being evicted from their homes to make way for settlers. NRC's legal aid works to prevent the forcible transfer of people, here and around the world. With your support we can help Palestinians across
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Secretary General, @NRC_Egeland, reports from the #WestBank where families are being driven from their homes by unrelenting settler violence.
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In Muarrajat East, on the West Bank: a vulnerable Palestinian community torched to the ground by gangs from the illegal settlements that violently expand their territories.
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The same violence and impunity we saw in Gaza is dispossessing whole communities on the West Bank. I’ve witnessed how Israeli settler violence, backed by the authorities, is driving vulnerable Palestinian communities from their homes. See our latest ⬇️
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West Bank: Heartbreaking to see Bedouin community housing in ashes. They were torched by violent Israeli settlers who also stole their livelihoods, and who are diverting the scarce water to their ever-increasing illegal settlments. Palestinians told us that settler violence is
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I’m back on the West Bank, where conditions for Palestinian communities and refugees have become much worse since I was last here, 3 years ago. Bedouin and other rural communities are violently harassed by armed gangs from the growing number of illegal settlements. Entire
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Russian strikes on Kyiv’s energy infrastructure killed 6 people last night, leaving thousands in the cold. Attacks on energy are attacks on civilians. Winter is closing in and every day without power risks lives. See NRC’s new statement: ⬇️
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UN convoy in Kherson region attacked by Russia while delivering lifesaving aid. Outrageous and unacceptable. Humanitarian workers are not targets, we must protect those who bring relief to civilians in crisis. https://t.co/k3cFRw9Ndr
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Today, an inter-agency convoy of four humanitarian trucks, clearly marked as belonging to the UN, carrying aid, came under attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when delivering aid to...
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«We stand today at what is a rare good chance for an enduring peace: the best opportunity since 1993 to prevent future generations from being consumed by the hatred and violence that have defined much of recent decades.»
economist.com
To succeed, the process will require new leadership and sustained external pressure, writes the peace-deal veteran
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My courageous NRC colleagues in Gaza have endured hell as they have done everything to support others. Today there is hope, but a very long road ahead. Listen to Salma here: ⬇️
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Gaza aid plan will fail without full access for humanitarian groups, l Norwegian Refugee Council @NRC_Norway head @NRC_Egeland tells @ReutersWorld
https://t.co/YBIMGFVvpd
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The Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the largest independent aid groups working in Gaza, said President Donald Trump's plan to increase aid to starving people as part of a ceasefire will fail unless...
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We welcome the ceasefire warmly. Now good words must be followed by concrete actions on the ground. Humanitarian organisaitons must be given full, impartial access. Israel’s continued refusal to grant access to major international aid organisations under its re-registration
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