Kjersti G. Berg

The Burden of Metaphor in Gaza Beyond a lasting ceasefire, what Gaza needs most is to be understood on its own terms — and for its people to be heard

We journalists are taught: Do the reporting, and the story will write itself. But how does one narrate the stories of 20,000 dead children? Samer Badawi writes in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

What Israeli “Victory” Looks Like The Trump deal doesn’t destroy Hamas but it does further Palestinian dispossession.

Why is Israel declaring "victory" in Gaza when many of its aims were not met? @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes that the real goal is the same as it has been for decades: maximum land, minimum Palestinians. Trump's ceasefire plan is another step in that direction.

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"Even if it does bring about a welcome respite from the suffering in Gaza in the short term, I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."

Today's ceasefire withdrawal leaves the IDF in control of a large proportion of Gaza's former urban areas (outlined in white)—all of Rafah; most of Khan Younis; Beit Hanoun; and Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood.

Areas where we know nearly all buildings have been demolished are shaded black.

The starvation of Gaza is a deliberate policy – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) In recent days, Israel has commenced new attacks on Gaza, with humanitarian aid playing a key role in its forced expulsion of Palestinians.

Together with @kgberg.bsky.social I try to explain how we got to the famine in Gaza. www.prio.org/comments/1801

The European Union Human Rights Sanctions Regime and its Applicability to the Situation in Gaza and the West Bank in Accordance with International Law [Christine Evans is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the law faculty of Lund University and a human rights practitioner/investigator who has worked for the UN. Nieves Molina is an international lawyer…

Recommended reading - by Christine Evans and Nieves Molina-Clemente
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Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.

'A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump admin, modeled on Trump’s vow to “take over” the enclave, would turn it into a trusteeship administered by the S for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.'

«We must not allow the belligerent state to get away with saying this is an accident, collateral damage. … It’s part and parcel of a destruction of peoplehood — a people destroyed, fragmented, eviscerated — it’s the elimination, really, of a people,” @meznaqato.bsky.social

Utsultingen av Gaza er en villet politikk KRONIKK: De siste dagene har Israel startet nye angrep i Gaza, og nødhjelp spiller en nøkkelrolle i fordrivelsen av palestinerne.

Utsultingen av Gaza er en villet politikk
Kronikk med @jjensehaugen.bsky.social
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Famine has struck Gaza, says global hunger monitor The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system said 514,000 people - nearly a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza - are experiencing famine, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave.

Hauntingly official: Famine has struck Gaza, says global hunger monitor www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary Throughout my stay in Berlin, I kept hearing from Germans quietly critical of Israel that ‘cracks’ had begun to...

‘Between 7 October 2023 and 13 May this year, according to Reuters, Germany had granted export licences for military equipment worth €485 million. Will anyone be left in Gaza to benefit from the supposed turning of the tide?’

Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes Israeli forces at the sites of a new US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza have routinely opened fire on starving Palestinian civilians in acts that amount to serious violations of international l...

The aim is reportedly to ultimately replace humanitarian aid delivery by the UN and aid orgs.

Our latest investigation lays out this flawed militarized aid distribution system:

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

«No one should act surprised» www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza The region’s most experienced aid agency could feed all of Gaza’s population for three months—if Israel would just let them do their job.

"At this very moment, UNRWA alone has 6,000 trucks waiting just beyond the border with enough food to provide for the entire population of Gaza for three months."

"No evidence has been provided to substantiate any of Israel’s countless...weaponized allegations against UNRWA"

In Egypt, displaced Palestinians have been forgotten Bombing has forced some 100,000 people to flee from Gaza across the southern border. They are now living in limbo

“Here, we are not dead, but we are not alive either.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

This Is How You Conduct Genocide by the Regulations The bureaucracy Israel implemented decades ago to control the population of Gaza has been weaponized to regulate and facilitate its destruction

NEW: Human rights lawyer @saribashi.bsky.social spent years litigating against Israeli military restrictions on access to Gaza. She didn't anticipate how quickly this bureaucracy would facilitate the destruction of its people, she writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach Symbolic gestures and empty statements are no longer enough. In Israel’s globalised economy, here’s what will shift public opinion, says says senior lecturer in Israeli studies Yair Wallach

By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements.
The time to act is now - me @theguardian.com

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I’m one of many Palestinian doctors in Israel. We’re being persecuted – but we won’t abandon our oath | Lina Qasem-Hassan We’ve promised to provide equal care to all. Now we’re being punished for speaking out against the killing of medics and patients in Gaza, says Palestinian doctor Lina Qasem-Hassan

I’m one of many Palestinian doctors in Israel. We’re being persecuted – but we won’t abandon our oath | Lina Qasem-Hassan

I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to us

I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak

Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal We saw famine in Biafra and Ethiopia. In the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘aid distribution system’ we see an attempt to destroy a whole society, says academic and writer Alex de Waal

"The social breakdown that we are witnessing, the degrading of human beings, is not a byproduct of the harm that Israel is inflicting. That’s the central element of the crime: destroying Palestinian society."
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Must read.
"In the court of world opinion, a verdict is being handed down every day: the government of Israel is responsible for inhumanities that will scar their state for a long time, perhaps forever."

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...

‘Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to allow in, as though food were a legitimate bargaining chip. Gazans cannot afford to wait for either.’

New on the blog: Amjad Iraqi on Gaza.

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Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...

‘The inability of Western powers to condemn Israel’s conduct – much less bring it to an end – has made a mockery of the rules-based order that they claim to uphold.’

Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"

Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

Open the Gates to Save a Starving Gaza | International Crisis Group As ceasefire talks drag on, Gaza is tipping from mass starvation toward mass death. Israel must allow assistance in immediately. But that step alone will not save the strip’s depleted population. Gaza...

"The machinery of death must be stopped, not merely slowed."

@crisisgroup.org's latest statement on the situation in #Gaza.

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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

“Starving a Generation” report indicts Israel for weaponizing starvation as a tool of genocide New report from Defense for Children International - Palestine on Israel's systematic starvation of Palestinian children in Gaza.

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Nytt Babylon ute! I artikkelen Skyggekrigen mot UNRWA etter 7. oktober 2023 viser @kgberg.bsky.social & jeg hvordan Israel undergravde UNRWAs legitimitet. Det beredte grunnen for den katastrofen som er Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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