Jørgen Jensehaugen
@JJensehaugen
Research Professor @PRIOresearch, Arab-Israeli conflict. Board member @babylonnorden Author Arab-Israeli Diplomacy under Carter @ibtauris
The Carter presidency will continue to be revisited–whether it comes to his solar panels on the White House, his insistence that the Palestinians mattered or his Camp David success–he left an often unrecognized mark. Some highlights in my research on his presidency: A thread
Is a Gaza ceasefire around the corner? The question exhausts me because the answer is that I don't know, and it is far too late. The offical Palestinian deathtoll stands at over 57.000, with research points to 40% underreporting. And this, this is the food situation in Gaza.
🚨BREAKING: Oxfam and over 130 organizations demand an immediate end to Israel's deadly distribution scheme, a return to UN-led coordination, and the lifting of the brutal blockade on Gaza. Read our joint statement 👉oxf.am/3TksrtE
It is a bittersweet announcement that our Special Issue co-edited with Tiina Järvi on Palestine, Israel and ethnography in the Middle East is out in Babylon Journal. journals.uio.no/babylon/issue/…
We are grateful to amazing colleagues who made important contributions to the SI. @JJensehaugen and Kjersti Berg write about Israeli shadow war against UNRWA that only escalated recently.
Nytt @babylonnorden ute! I artikkelen Skyggekrigen mot UNRWA etter 7. oktober 2023 viser @kjerstig_berg & jeg hvordan Israel undergravde UNRWAs legitimitet. Det beredte grunnen for den katastrofen som er Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. journals.uio.no/babylon/articl…
What is Gazas real deathtoll? New study confirms previous findings that official figures are almost 40% too low. Already on 5 January 2025 the real number of deaths was probably 75.200. The study confirms that 56.2% of killed are women, children&elderly medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
#Syria's economy is officially open -- SWIFT transactions have begun. Yesterday, Central Bank Governor Hasriyeh chaired a meeting with @USAMBTurkiye & officials from @jpmorgan, @MorganStanley & @Citibank All of this just 1 month on from #Trump's sanctions lifting announcement.
B'Tselem reminds us of what Israel is doing in Gaza while attention is on the war with Iran:
BREAKING: US vetoes UN Security Council Resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire and unhindered aid access
This is the grim reality - in Israel, support for ethnic cleansing is the norm. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza on Channel 4
The OCHA brief for Gaza should be read daily. 54.000 killed, with credible estimates suggesting that this is 40% below real number. 470.000 facing catastrophic food insecurity. ochaopt.org/content/report…
#Gaza: We warned against the militarized & politicized «aid» hubs that today ended in chaos and aid stolen & diverted from families in need. This fiasco could have been averted if our normal humanitarian system had not been blocked for months by Israel. timesofisrael.com/gazans-overrun…
The situation for Palestinians in Gaza is beyond description, beyond atrocious & beyond inhumane. A policy of siege & starvation makes a mockery of international law. The blockade against humanitarian aid must end immediately. This is a moment for moral clarity & action.
As #Israel moves to make its occupation of #Gaza permanent, a humanitarian catastrophe deepens. Yet during Donald Trump’s Middle East tour, “it seems that Gaza was hardly on the agenda,” writes @JJensehaugen in a new PRIO blog. Read more ⬇️ prio.org/blogs/1776
Forced displacement is now official Israel policy, and the refugees will not be allowed to return after the fighting. And all the while Israel is enforcing a policy of starvation against Gaza. My latest @PRIOresearch blogpost prio.org/blogs/1776
Status Gaza blir stadig verre. Utenfor står nødhjelpen, men den slipper ikke inn. Det er villet politikk. Min spalte i @panoramanyheter @PRIOresearch panoramanyheter.no/gaza-israel-jo…
