“On Lesvos, the architecture of migration deterrence laid bare” My latest for @newhumanitarian.bsky.social: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/editors-take...
Riley Sparks
@sparksriley.bsky.social
Journalist. Reporting on Gaza, migration/borders, human rights & aid @newhumanitarian.bsky.social. Researcher @ Canada Press Freedom Project. Signal: sparksriley.01 sparksriley@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/sparksriley 📍 Paris
🚨New Gaza investigation @sparksriley.bsky.social & Ghada Abdulfattah spent months documenting Israel’s systematic erasure of communities & farmland in eastern Gaza and speaking to Palestinians who own the land and whose property rights are being usurped. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
Israel’s campaign of erasure: The demolition of eastern Gaza
Analysis of satellite images points to a pattern of systematic destruction designed to lay the groundwork for annexation rather than reconstruction.
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personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.
Our investigation "Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza" has been short listed for a 2026 True Story Award! Screen grab is from what the jury had to say. Read the investigation here: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...
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 ‘digital army for Israel:’
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...
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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...
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.
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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...
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...
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.
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"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."
“The war that never ended returns to Gaza”. Palestinian journalist Nour ElAssy writes about the shattering of a ceasefire that brought anything but the relief she had hoped for.
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.” From our @science.org news team 🧪
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...
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 “a pattern of apparent war crimes”.
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