Tammam Aloudat

Good idea @silkeroth.bsky.social.
@jannisgrimm.bsky.social, why don’t you send a pitch (summary) in English to my email tammam(at)theenewhumanitarian.org

Title: Quiet Morning
Creator: Suleiman Mansour
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With Israel’s expanding war and plan to take over aid, my colleagues and friends in Gaza fear a “death blow” People in Gaza fear being permanently corralled into an even smaller pen of misery where they have to beg their occupiers for a loaf of bread.

Read this story on Gaza by @arwadamon.bsky.social: With Israel’s expanding war and plan to take over aid, my colleagues and friends in Gaza fear a “death blow”: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

Israel’s massacre of Gaza paramedics was not an aberration The killing of 15 emergency workers in March was part of a pattern of systematic violence and impunity that James Smith witnessed first-hand.

The killing of the medics in Gaza by Israel was not an aberration. Read @newhumanitarian.bsky.social article by James Smith
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

Someone tell the Guardian there are multiple genocides concurring as we speak

I did not see any coverage on ICJ proceedings about Israel obligations in occupied Palestine on any major news network!!

With all the caveats about the UN weaknesses and biases, no other humanitarian actor I know of has talked about the Israeli genocidal war in Gaza with the moral and factual clarity of this statement. Still not enough but a step further than all others.

Mines: The deadly legacy of Syria’s war As Syrians head home in large numbers, they are unearthing new dangers in mines, bombs, and other explosive remnants of war.

300,000 mines, unknown # explosive remnants: This is the danger Syrians, including those returning to #Syria, face.

@ec.europa.eu should urgently support demining efforts, press authorities to set up civil-led mechanism to survey & clear land.

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Countries are already experiencing significant health system disruptions – WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) issues warning on health service disruptions reported in 70% of its surveyed country offices as a result of sudden suspensions and reductions in official developmen...

The suspensions and reductions in ODA are disrupting all health system functions, with the most frequently reported impacts being on health emergency preparedness and response(70%), public health surveillance (66%), service provision(58%), humanitarian aid (56%), and health and care workforce (54%).

What unexplained deaths in Houthi detention mean for aid work in Yemen Given the level of risk, how should aid organisations balance their need to deliver lifesaving assistance with their duty of care to protect employees?

A respected humanitarian. A troubling arrest. A death in custody. No explanations. More than 16 months after the death of Hisham al-Hakimi in Houthi custody, many questions remain. Our latest investigation unpacks what happened: ⬇️

The data streams that underpin humanitarian response are about to collapse Famine warning, needs assessments, health data: Humanitarian action will be groping in the dark if vital data sources are allowed to crumble.

Why the US aid defunding crisis threatens to trigger a full collapse for crucial humanitarian data.

Reforming humanitarianism can’t be left to today’s decision-makers The problem isn’t a “humanitarian reset” but who is pushing the button. The leadership needed to revamp the system must come from elsewhere.

What happens when the institutions that hold power are in charge of reforms?
💴 Funding will not follow value
🤼 Organisations will compete to survive, contorting themselves to donor preferences
🇺🇳 UN agencies will out-compete nimbler frontline groups

With Israel stopping all supplies and humanitarian aid to Gaza today, is it time for humanitarian organisations to take an unequivocal stand against a government that is openly and shamelessly instrumentalising aid? Refuse to cooperate? Refuse to give them cover?

🧵News from #Ukraine that you're probably not seeing: Early this morning, Russian forces struck an @msf.ca-supported hospital in #Kharkiv. Four patients were injured and reportedly, over 50 patients had to be evacuated. #NotATarget

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

It was never an aid freeze for review, it was always going to be sadistic men depriving people of any hope of survival.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

I almost never get off a webcast and say, 'Damn, that was good.' But this was that. My key takeaway: No one cares about soft power, being good anymore. So the hard power orientation forces us to take sides-don't throw out the rules-based order but apply them equally, not following colonial patterns.

I’m not suggesting that this is what you’re saying. What I’m saying is that radical act towards humanitarianism needs to balance both sides. How to get out of co-opted to the humanitarianism while not causing harm at the same time.

MSF, for example, treats about 15 million patients a year. I doubt that we are in a moral position that would allow us to say: something else is needed, and those patients not being treated as a fair price.

All very good questions. The issue I have with if the reform is possible or whether something else should be built is how can we deal with the services that are already rendered? If we flip the switch on humanitarianism today, who provides for the millions that are served by it tomorrow?

Why reform isn’t enough: From rethinking to remaking humanitarianism The Trump aid freeze is not the end of humanitarianism. But simply restoring funding won’t fix what’s broken. What comes next?

The Trump aid freeze isn’t the death of humanitarianism, but restoring funding alone won’t fix a broken system. What comes next? Opinion piece by @tammam.bsky.social

Why reform isn’t enough: From rethinking to remaking humanitarianism The Trump aid freeze is not the end of humanitarianism. But simply restoring funding won’t fix what’s broken. What comes next?

Wy reform (of the humanitarian sector) is not enough and why we need to start remaking humanitarianism
Read my opinion article in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

If not (US) aid, then what? We hope this will be one conversation of many, as we reimagine the future of humanitarian aid in an era of mounting challenges and transformative opportunities. The event is moderated by TNH CEO Tamma...

Join me and @newhumanitarian.bsky.social on Wednesday 19 February at 14:00 to discuss the aftermath of the aid freeze by the Trump administration in the US with Lata Narayanaswamy, Deborah Doane, Nidhi Bouri, and Abbas Sheikh.
Register here www.thenewhumanitarian.org/events/if-no...

How climate smart is solar in meeting Africa’s power needs? The roll-out of large-scale solar projects is fraught with challenges over cost, efficiency, and an increasingly unpredictable climate.

Solar power, in a country like Zambia with lots of sunshine, seems like a common sense solution to energy needs. But that overlooks the number of hurdles in the way. Read about it: ⬇️

Why the name Pyusawhti is sowing fear in central Myanmar Accused of extrajudicial killings and waves of violence against opponents of the junta, the militia has been forcing civilians to join its ranks.

Over 100,000 homes have been destroyed across Myanmar, most in Sagaing Region. The Pyusawhti militia is at the heart of this destruction. Learn why: ⬇️

Trump Administration Puts Dozens of U.S.A.I.D. Officials on Paid Leave An email to the aid agency’s employees cited actions “that appear to be designed to circumvent” an executive order by President Trump.

"The Trump administration placed several dozen senior officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave in response to what an official characterized as resistance to President Trump’s policy."

It is shocking how many organisations members of InterAction accept such language to be put forward in their names.

Kenya’s youth cannot stop state abductions on their own The edifice that allows abductions to happen, from its colonial set-up to the complicity of Western actors, should be addressed and dismantled.

Abductions and enforced disappearances of dissidents by the Kenyan state are nothing new but have in recent months become a political lightning rod for William Ruto's administration, focusing public attention on a highly emotive: ⬇️

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Started reading Technicolonialism by @madianou.bsky.social on technology and innovation in humanitarian aid. Very good start.