Natasha Hall
@NatashaHallDC
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Senior Associate CSIS Geopolitics, former USG, Mayday Rescue, CIVIC, RAND & founder of Art in Exile. Proud Arab American. All views my own.
Joined July 2020
RT @SkyNews: BREAKING: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK will recognise Palestine as a state by the United Nations meeti….
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That was b4 every hospital in Gaza became inoperable or only partially operable, b4 people were starving, b4 markets collapsed, b4 90% of structures were damaged or destroyed, b4 the desal & WWTPs were destroyed, b4 90% of the population was displaced multiple times. Imagine now.
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Prior to the war, people could access clean water through water treatment facilities & sewage treatment plants were operational. Even with these services, b/w 500 & 600 truckloads of aid & commercial goods entered Gaza daily b4 the war - so around 350,000 tons of supplies. .
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These graphs are devastating but don't even tell the whole story. "Tons of aid" is not a good metric. 100,000 tons of flour does not provide needed nutrition for a family, doesn't supply clean water or sanitation, or health facilities and medical treatment. 🧵.
WSJ chart on the dramatic reduction in aid to Gaza after Israel upended the UN’s aid distribution system
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EVENT: Looking forward to participating in this panel on Thursday with friends and colleagues that know more about Syria than most! @JosephDaher19 @ibrahimhamidi @LaithAlajlouni w/ Amb. Roebuck. #Syria #reconstruction What now?.
agsi.org
On July 31, AGSI hosted a discussion on Syria's reconstruction efforts.
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This is a false narrative. Gaza is more logistically accessible than other major crises I've worked on incl. Syria, DRC, Tigray, & Sudan. It's a tiny area & pop. Aid orgs can scale for immediate impact & have done so in more "complicated" areas. The complication here is his govt.
The Gaza Strip is the most complicated humanitarian challenge in the world. The only warzone where aid is expected to be delivered into active combat zones, which civilians are not allowed to flee. This would have looked completely different if Egypt had opened its border.
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RT @GulfStatesInst: Event 7/25: Rebuilding Syria: Opportunities and Challenges of Postwar Reconstruction with @JosephDaher19 and @NatashaHa….
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On July 31, AGSI hosted a discussion on Syria's reconstruction efforts.
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"the guards at Saydnaya Prison would call the names of the condemned, usually dozens at a time. They wrapped nooses around their necks, then dragged tables from beneath their feet with a scraping that echoed through the building." #Syria.reporting @jmalsin
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Under the Assad regime, Saydnaya prison became a mass-killing machine; ‘a symbol of shame for the whole world.’
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RT @John_Hudson: The Post is now confirming this CNN scoop that a preliminary U.S. intel report found that Trump's strikes likely only set….
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Over Doha’s skies now. Around 6 missiles launched from Iran. Appears all were intercepted and there might have been advanced warning.
Taken by a very good friend of mine from the pearl five minutes ago
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RT @timourazhari: BREAKING - BLAST ROCKS CHURCH IN CENTRAL DAMASCUS — WITNESSES. It took place at Mar Elias Church in Dweilaa neighborhood….
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BBC confirms for the first time that missing American journalist Austin Tice was imprisoned by the Assad regime. We knew this but it's probably bigger than Tice. Many others were likely taken by different groups & handed to the regime.
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The BBC has uncovered top secret files that confirm Austin Tice was imprisoned by Syria's Assad regime.
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Washington allows Syria to merge 1000s of foreign fighters into the new army. @timourazhari . A big switch from insisting all foreign fighters leave, which always seemed problematic. Methinks this decision happened after conversations w/ countries that might be taking them.
EXCLUSIVE -- Washington has OK'd Syrian plans to merge 1000s of foreign fighters into the new army. That's according to US Syria envoy Thomas Barrack, who told me @Reuters: "There is an understanding, with transparency," on the issue. Barrack said it was better to keep the.
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Talked to @BBCNews on US Ambassador to Turkey’s visit to Damascus, another set of announcements and deals, and the road ahead in Syria
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US Syria envoy Barrack calls Kurdish SDF chief Mazloum as Turkey proposes a meeting in Damascus with Mazloum and either Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan or Turkey's intelligence chief.@amberinzaman.
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RT @TVietor08: Excellent piece about what the international community can do to help Syria recover from more than a decade of civil war.
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Spoke to @kaileyleinz and @JMathieuReports @bloomberg on Iran nuclear talks and Syria's future. It's about the new red line: uranium enrichment. And if the Iranians can convince him that he's getting a better deal than the JCPOA & override Israel.
bloomberg.com
Natasha Hall, Senior Fellow With the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the US and Iran concluding their fifth round of nuclear talks with no...
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RT @timourazhari: DOHA, May 28 (Reuters) - The Syrian government is set to sign deal on Thursday with four companies to expand its electric….
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My latest with colleague @ninarfawal on the next steps for Syria in @ForeignAffairs. In short, clear the path of spoilers to allow Syria to recover. The announcement of sanctions relief is an incredible first step but it isn't the only one.
foreignaffairs.com
Sanctions relief is not enough.
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