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E-Communications and Websites
The New Humanitarian—Analysis Section
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis
This analysis section of The New Humanitarian brings together reporting and commentary on humanitarian crises across different regions. It presents regularly updated analytical pieces that explore humanitarian conditions, operational challenges, and the evolving dynamics of crises. It highlights how humanitarian action is shaped by political conditions, access limitations, and funding constraints across multiple contexts. The section also offers comparative perspectives that help place Gaza within a broader landscape of humanitarian crises and contested response frameworks.
Outsourcing Occupation: US Private Contractors in Gaza
Safa Joudeh, Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, 2025 https://al-shabaka.org/policy-memos/outsourcing-occupation-us-private-contractors-in-gaza/
This policy memo examines the growing role of US private contractors in Gaza's aid distribution and security arrangements. It focuses on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and related aid-delivery models, arguing that the privatization and securitization of humanitarian assistance sidelines established UN bodies and humanitarian organizations while deepening external control over Gaza's civilian and governance structures. The memo moves beyond documenting humanitarian need to interrogate the political architecture through which aid is organized, restricted, and delivered. As a Palestinian-led policy analysis, it also offers a critical perspective on local agency, humanitarian principles, outsourced governance, and the relationship between relief delivery, external control, and Palestinian self-determination.
Palestinian NGO Network
The website of the Palestinian NGO Network serves as a coordination and information platform for Palestinian civil society organizations working across humanitarian and development sectors. It provides access to statements, updates, and publications issued by member organizations, particularly in relation to ongoing humanitarian conditions in Gaza. The platform reflects how local organizations document and communicate humanitarian conditions from within the context itself. It brings together perspectives that highlight constraints related to access, coordination, and service provision, while also indicating how local actors position themselves within broader humanitarian response structures.
Arab Reform Initiative—Publications
https://www.arab-reform.net/publication/
This publications platform, hosted by the Arab Reform Initiative, brings together research articles, commentaries, interviews, and statements addressing political, economic, and social developments across the Arab region. The platform includes materials engaging with conflict, governance, and regional political dynamics. It places humanitarian questions within broader political and institutional contexts. The platform's regional focus makes it useful for readers interested in how crises are interpreted and debated across Arab policy and research spaces.
Conflict in Sudan
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), 2025
https://www.msf.org/conflict-sudan
This MSF resource provides ongoing updates on the conflict in Sudan and its humanitarian consequences, drawing on field-based operational reporting from an organization directly involved in emergency medical response. It brings together information on access constraints, attacks on civilians and health facilities, displacement, and the practical difficulties of delivering care in an active conflict setting. As a current resource, it documents how insecurity and operational disruption affect humanitarian action on the ground. It is particularly useful for readers seeking an operationally grounded account of how medical and humanitarian work is shaped by violence, restricted access, and the wider breakdown of essential services in Sudan.
Book Notices
Yemen at the Crossroads: Crisis and Reconstruction
Edited by Khalil Fadl Osman and Mona Hedaya
Routledge, 2026
Hardback ISBN: 9781041051824
eBook ISBN: 9781003631644
This edited volume examines Yemen's current crisis through the interconnected lenses of conflict, political deadlock, recovery, and reconstruction. It addresses the historical roots of the conflict, its geopolitical implications, and the local dynamics that continue to shape Yemen's present condition. The book is organized around two broad areas: the evolution of the conflict and peacemaking processes, and questions of postconflict recovery and sustainable development. It brings together discussions of mediation, governance, health, education, and reconstruction, making it a useful resource for readers interested in how prolonged conflict shapes both humanitarian conditions and recovery efforts.
Civil Society and Local Ownership in the Global South: Responses to Conflict and Militarism
Edited by Ibrahim Natil
Routledge, 2025
Hardback ISBN: 9781032932415
eBook ISBN: 9781003565048
This edited volume is an assessment of local civil society responses to conflict, militarism, climate change, and disease across the Global South. Its broad empirical scope includes cases from Sub-Saharan Africa, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Palestine, and Syria. The book foregrounds local ownership, grassroots initiatives, peacebuilding, and postconflict consensus-building. It engages with local humanitarianism, connecting debates on humanitarian strain and external response to broader questions of agency, local participation, and political context.
Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding (2nd Edition)
Edited by Roger Mac Ginty
Routledge, 2025
Hardback ISBN: 9781032275772
eBook ISBN: 9781003293408
https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Peacebuilding/MacGinty/p/book/9781032275772
This handbook is an updated and revised second edition that addresses key concepts, debates, and practices in the field of peacebuilding. It is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary reference work covering conceptual and applied issues across the field. The book provides a broader conceptual framework for understanding contemporary challenges in humanitarian and peacebuilding practice. The volume places current debates about crisis response, institutional limits, and conflict dynamics within longer-standing discussions in the field.
Reports
Gaza Strip: Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, April 2026
World Bank, European Union, and United Nations, 2026
This Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment provides a comprehensive and current assessment of the impact of the conflict on Gaza's population, physical assets, infrastructure, service delivery, economy, and recovery needs. Conducted jointly by the World Bank, the European Union, and the United Nations, the report estimates direct physical damages at US$35.2 billion, economic losses at US$22.7 billion, and recovery and reconstruction needs at approximately US$71.4 billion. It covers social, infrastructure, productive, and cross-cutting sectors, including housing, health, education, water and sanitation, agriculture, employment, governance, land, and the environment. The report connects immediate humanitarian devastation with longer-term questions of reconstruction, institutional capacity, recovery planning, and development. It also provides a technical evidence base for understanding the scale and sequencing of Gaza's immediate-term, medium-term, and long-term recovery needs.
The Gaza Strip Amidst Genocide and Displacement: Mapping Two Years of Systematic Warfare
Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, 2025
https://chs-doha.org/en/Publications/Pages/Report-Two-years-after-Genocide.aspx
This report provides an overview of humanitarian, social, and institutional conditions in Gaza following prolonged conflict. It documents the consequences of two consecutive years of violence and presents a comprehensive assessment across infrastructure, health, education, the economy, and social systems. The report presents a structured account of how conflict affects civilian life and institutional systems, linking sectoral impacts to broader humanitarian conditions. It is especially useful for understanding the cumulative effects of prolonged violence and displacement.
Myanmar–Bangladesh: Trends in Rohingya Cross-Border Displacement and Outlook for 2025
ACAPS, 2025
This ACAPS report examines trends in Rohingya cross-border displacement in 2024 and early 2025, together with humanitarian needs during displacement and upon arrival in Bangladesh. It also identifies the main drivers of movement and the variables shaping the displacement trends. The report addresses a prolonged humanitarian crisis through the combined lenses of displacement, protection, and operational response. It is a current analytical resource on how conflict, insecurity, and movement restrictions shape humanitarian needs and regional response dynamics.
Palestine: Potential Implications of the Indefinite Partial Closure of Border Crossings in Gaza
ACAPS, 2026
https://www.acaps.org/en/countries/palestine
This ACAPS analysis examines the potential humanitarian implications of continued restrictions on border crossings in Gaza. This assessment informs humanitarian planning under current conditions, with particular attention to how access restrictions may reshape needs and response options. The report also highlights how humanitarian conditions are shaped by the political and operational constraints surrounding access. By focusing on the likely consequences of continued border restrictions, it offers a current analytical perspective on how response possibilities, service provision, and essential supplies are affected in situations where humanitarian relief is structurally constrained.
UNRWA Situation Report #224: Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem
UNRWA, 2026
This situation report provides a recent institutional update on humanitarian conditions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Covering developments from May 26, 2026, to June 2, 2026, it documents the continuing scale of displacement, emergency shelter needs, service provision, and operational constraints affecting humanitarian response. The report shows how humanitarian action is being shaped by restricted access, insecurity, institutional pressure, and the continuing strain on essential services. It offers a current reference point for understanding immediate humanitarian needs and also the practical limits faced by one of the main UN agencies operating in the Palestinian context.
Humanitarian Situation Report | 5 June 2026
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2026
https://www.ochaopt.org/content/humanitarian-situation-report-5-june-2026
This humanitarian situation report provides a recent operational update on conditions in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, with particular attention to the evolving situation in Gaza. It highlights continuing insecurity, displacement, restricted access to safe water, public health risks linked to sanitation and solid waste conditions, constraints on crossings, and funding shortfalls affecting humanitarian response. The report is particularly useful for understanding how humanitarian needs are shaped by the scale of destruction and deprivation, as well as by the practical constraints facing aid delivery, including restrictions on the movement of supplies, congestion at crossing points, reduced fuel availability, and the scaling down or suspension of some critical services. It serves as a practical resource for readers interested in the everyday operational limits of humanitarian action under conditions of insecurity, restricted access, and institutional strain.
Documents
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 (2025)
United Nations Security Council, 2025
https://docs.un.org/en/s/res/2803(2025)
This Security Council resolution addresses developments related to the conflict in Gaza, including ceasefire considerations, humanitarian access, and broader political processes. It forms part of the official UN documentary record on the crisis. It reflects how humanitarian concerns are addressed within international political frameworks and diplomatic processes.
Safety and Security of Humanitarian Personnel and Protection of United Nations Personnel
United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/80/112, December 12, 2025
https://docs.un.org/en/A/RES/80/112
This resolution addresses the safety and security of humanitarian personnel and the protection of United Nations personnel. As an official UN document, it is directly concerned with the conditions under which humanitarian actors operate and the risks they face in crisis and conflict settings. The resolution speaks to a core theme running through the special issue: the vulnerability of humanitarian action under conditions of violence, obstruction, and institutional strain. It establishes a formal international framework for considering humanitarian worker protection and addressing the broader pressures affecting humanitarian work in contemporary conflicts.
Footnotes
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