Golnar Motevalli
@golnarM
Iran coverage at Bloomberg. Erstwhile Tehraner. Native cockney. Priors: Afghanistan and Turkey. Formerly BBC and Reuters. All opinions are mine.
Dropping food from the air in Gaza is an ineffective sideshow. During my time as UN relief chief we had to stop such aid. Minimal amounts were delivered and chaos and accidents occurred on the ground. All entries into Gaza have to be opened and distribution handed back to UN.
This is a must read from my colleague @RESCUEorg . Starvation in Gaza is the phrase “man made catastrophe” brought to life. There needs to be a united call and united action to end the blockade on aid and commercial traffic NOW. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/opi…
Gaza aid site offered a 'women only' day. It didn't stop the killing bbc.in/46p3FAn
"There was a huge crowd of women and the place seemed out of control, they couldn't offload and distribute the aid," Khawla said. "They started spraying the women with pepper spray, then they brought stun grenades and started throwing them on the women…" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Breaking News: Israeli military officials say they have no proof Hamas routinely steals UN aid, undercutting a claim Israel has used to limit food for Gaza. nyti.ms/4opoK4n
Damning @nytimes exposé: Israeli officials privately confirm Israel never had evidence of diversion from UN/NGOs. In fact, they saw how effective the humanitarian response was in saving lives in #Gaza. Now we’re 5 months into an Israeli blockade of aid. nytimes.com/2025/07/26/wor…
NEW: An internal U.S. government assessment last month found NO systematic aid diversion by Hamas Yet that myth has been used to justify blocking most humanitarian aid, as Gaza's children starve to death Important reporting by @JonathanLanday @Reuters👇 reuters.com/world/middle-e…
החלטה אומללה, פזיזה, יהירה ופוליטית של נתניהו והקבינט בחודש מרץ על הפסקת הכנסת הסיוע לעזה הכתיבה מדיניות הרסנית שנמשכה ארבעה חודשים, כללה ביצוע פשעי מלחמה, הביאה למותם של מאות פלסטינים חפים מפשע וקלעה את ישראל למשבר בינלאומי חסר תקדים. השינוי כעת מאוחר הרבה יותר מדי
BBC’s Verify team located the following footage, which has been circulating online, to an area less than 750 metres from aid site “SDS2” of the US-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. It’s thought to have taken place on Saturday.
Mass starvation is spreading in Gaza. Our colleagues and the people we serve are wasting away. It is time for governments to take decisive action and save lives: msf.org/mass-starvatio…
"The Israeli government is not allowing us the access and the space to be able to scale up," says @RESCUEorg's head of international programs @donnciar. He gives an update on the starvation crisis in Gaza as the US and Israel step away from ceasefire talks with Hamas…
What's happening in #Gaza is not just a humanitarian crisis. It is a moral crisis that challenges the global conscience. We will continue to speak out at every opportunity. @antonioguterres' tells @amnesty's Global Assembly: un.org/sg/en/content/…
Children hollowed up by hunger are overwhelming the Patient's Friends Hospital, the main emergency center for malnourished kids in northern Gaza. Five deaths last weekend also marked the first seen by the center in children who had no preexisting conditions.
E3 and EU PDs met Iranian DFMs to discuss Iran’s nuclear programme. E3 are ready to trigger snapback, however we offered a snapback extension should Iran meet their legal obligations and specific criteria. We urge Iran to choose the path of diplomacy.
“For infants, we have virtually no baby formula. Children are being given sugar water, often their mothers are too malnourished to breastfeed. When an international colleague tried to bring baby formula into Gaza, Israeli authorities confiscated it” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Gaza: UK and 27 other nations condemn Israel over civilian suffering - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
This is v much worth reading
The deadline is looming for Britain, France and Germany to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran. They are right to consider an extension to this “snapback” mechanism—and China could play a crucial role in what comes next, writes Ellie Geranmayeh, deputy director of…
News organizations Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Reuters and the BBC issued today a rare joint statement calling on Israel to allow journalists to move in and out of Gaza, and to provide more food for civilians in the besieged Strip. politico.eu/article/worlds…