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Riley Sparks

@sparksriley.bsky.social

Journalist. Migration/borders, human rights & aid. Work in The New Humanitarian etc. Research @ Canada Press Freedom Project. Signal: sparksriley.01 sparksriley@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/sparksriley πŸ“ Paris

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HonestReporting Canada’s targeted harassment machine - J-Source A self-professed media watchdog has been weaponizing antisemitism and trying to poison journalistic standards on covering Palestine. Media workers on the perils of the relentless intimidation and disi...

A self-professed media watchdog has been weaponizing antisemitism and trying to poison journalistic standards on covering Palestine.

Media workers spoke with @sparksriley.bsky.social about the perils of the relentless intimidation and disinformation manufactured by a β€˜digital army for Israel:’

03.02.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Hobbled by obstruction and uncertainty: Gaza’s post-ceasefire aid response Palestinians still face extreme deprivation as Israel continues to restrict humanitarian activities amid international jockeying over the future.

Ghada Abdulfattah and @sparksriley.bsky.social for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on the ways Israel continues to throttle aid to Gaza, even post-ceasefire: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2025...

21.11.2025 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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THREAD: What does it mean to seek food in Gaza today? For many Palestinians, it means risking death. These are the stories behind the hundreds killed. #Gaza #HumanRights www.hrw.org/news/2025/08...

01.08.2025 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Under fire for flour: A night of survival in Gaza Hani Qarmoot, a 22-year-old writer, recounts risking his life to get flour from one of the rare aid convoys Israel has allowed into northern Gaza.

Another absolutely critical, must-read in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social's "Don't look away" series of first-person articles from Gaza. This one by 22-year-old Hani Qarmoot on facing gunfire to get flour.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

15.07.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Maybe they will say they did not know. But we will know the truth: They knew. They all knew. And they chose to look away."

25.03.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

06.02.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5245    πŸ” 2681    πŸ’¬ 119    πŸ“Œ 191
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Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza Experts say the series of Israeli attacks that violently dismantled a UN-backed humanitarian effort shows β€œa pattern of apparent war crimes”.

Our @newhumanitarian.bsky.social 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.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

03.12.2024 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0