James Denselow
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Head of Policy Team @TheHALOTrust / Middle East Analyst / @SyriaStudies Fellow / Lived & worked in Syria & Lebanon
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More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago -
@Save_GlobalNews
Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed
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It is with profound sadness we confirm that a staff member of Save the Children and his family have been killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Sameh Ewaida, 39, was the proud father of four children – Mohammad (12), Heba (11), Zeina (3), and Zein (2)
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Incredible picture on front page of today’s
@guardian
showing the moment a six-year old was rescued from her home after seven hours trapped in the rubble
#StopTheWarOnChildren
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Gaza is currently the most dangerous place in the world to be a:
✍️ Journalist (31 killed -
@pressfreedom
)
⛑️ Aid worker (62
@UNRWA
staff killed)
👧 Child (3,195 killed -
@save_children
)
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Hope that today's
#Aleppodebate
is more action-orientated than simply reflective; urgent need to protect humanitarians/civilians in the city
I hope the UK reflects as deeply on the consequences of the 2013 vote against intervention in Syria as it does on the 2003 vote on Iraq.
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A sight we should never have to see - child sized graves for the 29 victims of an airstrike on their school bus in Yemen
#NotATarget
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Amazing picture in today's Guardian of buses being set up vertically to provide a sniper shield in Aleppo
#Syria
http://t.co/azWU500DBv
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Children in Yemen urgently need your support to help them survive.
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A single image captures the terror of a child fleeing violence in Idlib - around 350,000 people have fled their homes since early December - but there are no safe places (via
@guardian
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U.S downing Syrian jet just the latest twist in complex conflict map of Syria - made up of unofficial no-fly zones & unsafe 'safe zones'
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.
@WHO
has verified 43 attacks on hospitals and medical facilities in Ukraine and 46 elsewhere in the world in other conflicts - the highest ever rate of attacks on healthcare
#UkraineUnderAttack
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Perhaps the best official statement in history - Egpytian Foreign Ministry: Hijacker of
#EgyptAir
'not a terrorist but an idiot'
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There is no safe place for over a million children in Gaza
The Israeli military is dropping leaflets on southern
#Gaza
warning people to leave Khan Younis city. This was the ‘safe’ area civilians were told to go to from the north.
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Yemen - ‘a broken country now a graveyard for its young’
@OrlaGuerin
- heartbreaking coverage of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
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The prospect of another 100 days of carnage is what we fear the most.
In November last year the UN Secretary General described Gaza as a "graveyard for children"
Our fears are that it could become a mass grave for children
@AJEnglish
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Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: UN aid chief says there is famine
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Large numbers of children in Gaza with need help with prosthetic limbs once the conflict ends
We're working with researchers at
@imperialcollege
to develop a pioneering polycentric knee joint which will have the ability to grow with the child
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“This map is not going to provide Palestinians with the protections that are their right under international law. It is more akin to a macabre game of battleships in which terrified civilians will be left guessing which square will save their life.”
-
@rohantalbot
#Gaza
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Detected structural damage map of Gaza from
@TheEconomist
a reminder that there are no safe places for over a million children who live there
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell
#CharlieHebdo
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Exciting news! Thrilled to announce my next chapter as I bid farewell to
@savechildrenuk
and embark on a new journey with
@TheHALOTrust
.
Grateful for the incredible colleagues, experiences and lessons learned
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"Children and families who wish to leave Raqqa city must be allowed to do so in safety and in dignity" -
@UNICEF
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As the bombs continue to rain down on Syria silhouettes of children start appearing around London
#dontbombchildren
#SaveSyrianChildren
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How a "international Shia jihad" won in Aleppo & helped ISIS - fascinating from
@hxhassan
&
@michaeldweiss
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This week's Syria peace talks featured no Syrians and no women
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Great to see
@Gemma_Chan1
witnessing first hand how
@savechildrenuk
is tackling
#InvisibleWounds
of Syrian children
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Three children confirmed killed so far in Ukraine - via
@SaveUKNews
Children are at unique risk from explosive weapons
Paediatric Blast Injury Field Manual available here -
#UkraineCrisis
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Today we mark 57th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child - thoughts are with the 100,000 children in e.Aleppo
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Great to spend the week helping to prepare
@WillJMeddings
and his troops ahead of their deployment to
@UN_MINUSMA
Strong focus on child protection, safe schools & sexual violence issues.
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#Aleppo
- "entire families sleep in one room, because they prefer to die together" - must read
@LizSly
@leloveluck
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A giant puppet of a child, made by the War Horse creators, is to embark on a 5,000-mile walk from Syria to the UK to "rewrite the narrative about refugees"
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A woman removes her niqab as her village in Syria is liberated from ISIS by Opposition fighters via
@DailyStarLeb
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Pretty major caveat to new Russian-Turkish Syria deal is that it excludes al-Nusra which means Idlib is very much in play
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Looking forward to new
@StaceyDooley
documentary on ISIS and latest from Mosul - on at
@frontlineclub
on 9th Feb
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Israeli bombing is killing and maiming children at a record pace, warn human rights groups -
@Beltrew
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Eight years of war in Syria =
-Half a million dead 💀
-3m people living with permanent disabilities ♿️
-Half of the population have fled their homes 🏠
-4m Syrian children have known nothing but war ⚔️
-Nearly 3m children do not attend school 🏫
-40% of schools unusable🙍🏼♂️
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Huge congratulations to
@Veroaubert
who has been recognized by the
@RoyalFamily
with an OBE for her services to children living in conflict
#StopTheWarOnChildren
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Whatever the outcome of today's UK vote on bombing Syria - the decision is far more about UK politics that any genuine impact on Syria's war
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Heartbreaking
Sandbags in the windows protect a newborn child in Ukraine’s Okhmatdyt Hospital
@GettyImages
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Great to spend time talking child protection with the next British army battle group preparing to deploy to
@UN_MINUSMA
- with rates of grave violations at record levels it’s crucial that
@UNPeacekeeping
champions this issue
#StopTheWarOnChildren
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Last year 82 states - including the UK - endorsed the Political Declaration on the Protection of Civilians from the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas
Today
@explosiveweapon
kicked off a important conversation with
@FCDOGovUK
&
@DefenceHQ
colleagues on implementation
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Amal Clooney urges
@HaiderAlAbadi
to agree to U.K. led UNSC resolution to prosecute ISIS in Iraq
@ChathamHouse
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As we mark
#HumanitarianDay
168 million people worldwide need humanitarian assistance and protection.
That represents about one person in 45 on the planet.
@TheLancet
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Two million of Yemen's seven million school-age children do not get to go to school at all, according to the United Nations. More than 2,500 schools have been put out of commission.
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Campaigners in London show solidarity with children in Yemen killed in yesterday’s airstrike on a school bus
#NotATarget
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Well worth watching new ‘Mosul’ film on
@netflix
featuring a searing quote from an Iraqi SWAT team when deciding not to call in a US air strike -
“They flatten everything because they don’t have to rebuild anything”
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Over the last week we've seen:
Children killed by airstrikes whilst playing football in Yemen
Children used as human shields by ISIS in Syria
Numbers of dangerously malnourished children in Afghanistan doubling
+400,000 children in need of humanitarian assistance in Ukraine
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Head of
@SyriaCivilDef
leaves a white helmet as a mark of respect for Jo Cox and a symbol of peace in Syria
#MoreInCommon
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“Another precious Yemeni child who died a needless death” - the life and death of three-year-old Abdul Rahman - as told by
@OrlaGuerin
#YemenCantWait
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Iraq celebrates the defeat of ISIS & declares the 10th December a new National Holiday
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A full tank of petrol in Syria now costs half a civil servants monthly wage -
@TheEconomist
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If you're interested in
#WhatIsAleppo
well worth visiting
@Channel4News
excellent resource page
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Great to be at
@NATO
this week at an event focusing on Grave Violations against children in Ukraine.
Thanks so much to
@BelgiumNATO
and
@irenefellin
for championing protecting children in conflict and to
@SaveCEO_UK
for her powerful words
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Potentially as many as 12,500 children stuck in the middle of this - you don't win cities by destroying them
Satellite footage of Raqqa city shows scale of the devastation there:
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Awful sight of a destroyed school in Kharkiv
Over the last three years the Education Cluster reports that at least 118 attacks on schools have taken place in the east of the country
Ukraine has endorsed the Safe School Declaration
Russia has not
#UkraineCrisis
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Western media far more interested in the small number of people trying to get into Syria than the far larger number trying to get out
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BIMCO, the world's largest international shipping association, said the tension in the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf "is now as high as it gets without being an actual armed conflict".
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Gaza - the most dangerous place to be a child or an aid worker today
Agree with
@SecBlinken
that the cost of conflict on children is "far too high"
@BBCWorld
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Sad news about axing of DFID - very short sighted - whichever adviser came up with that policy needs their eyes tested
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“Humanitarian policy should not simply see the many ways civilians suffer but also respect and support the many ways they act alone and together to survive and change the world around them” -
@HSlim_Oxford
in his excellent book ⭐️
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“There is clear evidence that keeping children separated from their families causes long-lasting psychological, health, social and developmental damage for children of any age.” -
@DanielaReale3
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7.5 million Ukrainian children, 1 year of total war
+4 children a day killed or injured
4.1 million children in need of humanitarian assistance
Children living in poverty up from 43% to 82% (
@unicef
)
2,619 educational institutions damaged & 406 entirely destroyed
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al-Sisi with his 96.9% must be laughing at Assad with his 88.7%
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Today as we mark a decade of conflict in Syria - triggered by the arrest and torture of children - solidarity is needed more than ever
#Syria10
#WithSyria
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Trump on the problems of the Middle East - "I will get it all done"
Will be speaking to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey this morning about bringing peace to the mess that I inherited in the Middle East. I will get it all done, but what a mistake, in lives and dollars (6 trillion), to be there in the first place!
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33 Iraqi mine-clearers have died since the liberation of
#Mosul
- the UN estimate it could take ten years to clear the explosive remnants of war in the battered city
@adnansarwar
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Powerful film from
@IsobelYeung
highlighting the insidious issue of Ukrainian children being taken to Russia and the efforts to bring them home
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The world's first Paediatric Blast Injury Field Manual will soon be available in Arabic where sadly it's much needed in Syria and Yemen
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.
@mk8287
is spot on that for hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrians this earthquake is "a crisis, within a crisis within a crisis"
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World’s largest refugee camp solar power plant in Jordan goes online providing power to +80,000 Syrians
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Excellent piece - “Syria’s war is moving toward a conclusion without any sense of closure”
In Syria, stories often speak louder than statistics. A mother in Latakia captured a widespread experience:
"I gave one martyr, and another son is half-dead. I hope for god to end this war; the graveyards are filled with young men."
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"How can you trust a government that is bombing you every day?" - Resident of Aleppo tells
@guardian
#AngerForAleppo
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Eight years into the war in Syria and 4 million children have known nothing but conflict
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Love this - Rohingya children are shown how their drawings of the violence that they fled from in Myanmar has made its way into British newspapers
#rememberrohingya
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400,000 children in Yemen are suffering from life threatening severe acute malnutrition - as some of the world’s richest countries wage war in one of the world’s poorest - h/t
@UNICEF
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East Aleppo has now been cut off from the outside world for 127 days according to the UN. There are 100,000 children living there.
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