Hugh Lovatt
@h_lovatt
Senior Policy Fellow @ecfr. Middle East analysis and European foreign policy, with focus on Israel/Palestine and Western Sahara. Mountain runner. Usual caveats.
Along with a lot of in depth research and interviews, our new @ECFRMena report includes this custom made map showing Israel's deliberate strategy of fragmenting and cleansing Gaza ecfr.eu/publication/de…
#BREAKING Oxfam says what we need in Gaza is opening crossings, lifting restrictions and arbitrary delays and denials by Israel, just dumping aid at the border is meaningless when none of it reaches people.
An Israeli settler just shot Odeh Hadalin in the lungs, a remarkable activist who helped us film No Other Land in Masafer Yatta. Residents identified Yinon Levi, sanctioned by the EU and US, as the shooter. This is him in the video firing like crazy.
Gaza: Some aid by some agencies is better than nothing, but the complicated system of pauses, corridors & ineffective airdrops is NOT going to avert famine and mass death. Only a ceasefire and full access by ALL aid groups across all border points may work.reuters.com/world/middle-e…
This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important
🧵 As in earlier wars, Israelis are being offered the mass killings in Gaza as a spectacle. They come to a mound in Sderot to enjoy the show and take selfies, using the genocide as a backdrop as you and I would a waterfall or a rainbow. @BowenBBC visited the place.
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
📄 NEW: USAID Review Found No Evidence Hamas Systematically Diverted U.S. Aid Credit: Reuters | July 25, 2025 ➤ An internal review by USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) examined 156 incidents of theft of U.S.-funded aid in Gaza, from October 2023 through May 2025.…
🚨BREAKING : Thousands of starving Palestinians in Gaza are crowding around aid trucks in the Al-Mouraj axis of the southern Gaza Strip, desperately trying to secure food for their families amid a famine deliberately imposed by Israel.
Trump's ambassador says Macron's recognition of a Palestinian state is "a blow to peace." Huh? The moribund "peace process" has produced only endless settlements, entrenched apartheid, and now threats of mass forced deportation. Which Trump enables. x.com/USAmbFrance/st…
France’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state is a gift to Hamas and a blow to peace. I’ve just arrived, and I’m deeply disappointed. @EmmanuelMacron – I hope to change your mind before September. Free the hostages. Focus on a ceasefire. This is the path to lasting peace.
This clip with @PeterBeinart will become historic. A voice of conscience in an era of inhumanity and insanity. "The blood is on our hands as Americans because it is our weapons that are responsible for those children starving to death."
Breaking: Israeli forces are carrying out large-scale demolitions of civilian homes in the eastern Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Saeed Naji Zomlot, the cousin closest to my heart, was killed by Israel. We last spoke four days ago. Saeed told me his children were starving and he had no choice but to go north of #Gaza in search of food. I asked him to be careful. He went—and never came back. Today, the…
Airdrops are very expensive (money spent on flights instead of food), volumes are too small, distribution is impossible as hungry crowds rush to get something, aid can’t be distributed fairly, people get killed. This is more distraction and deflection: it allows Israel to…
Israel will now allow Arab countries to resume the airdrops of food into Gaza. This is a step that hasn't happened for many months. It happened last year when the humanitarian situation was extremely dire. At the same time Israeli officials continue to claim there is no…
There has been some progress in the latest round of #Gaza #ceasefire talks, mediators Qatar and Egypt say in a joint statement. ara.tv/iil9b
Israeli soldier from Givati Brigade posted a photo to his Instagram story yesterday morning, depicting a semi-destroyed displacement camp in Gaza that looks a lot like the destroyed camp where Tayseer Obaid's mother's tent was razed (see quoted tweet). Captioned: "A day of fun"
Via @tayseerobaid88's Instagram: "The army entered the displacement camp where my mother camped. They destroyed everything, even my mother's tent."
🚨Mediators were shocked by Witkoff's statement about the collapse of the ceasefire talks because they had found significant flexibility in Hamas' latest response to their proposal & considered it as "paving the way to deal" Mediators were very optimistic until Witkoff's remarks…
This is really significant. A cross-party committee of TDs & Senators, Govt & opposition, spent weeks scrutinising the OTB in detail and hearing from experts. They've said clearly: services must be in. Hugely important support and a strong message to Govt - time #PassTheOTB.
Foreign Affairs Committee expected to recommend services be included in Occupied Territories Bill irishtimes.com/politics/2025/… via @IrishTimesPol
“As the architect and guardian of the landmark 2015 JCPOA, Europe faces a critical choice: Reassert its role as an honest broker of multilateral diplomacy aimed at nuclear non-proliferation, or follow Israel’s U.S.-backed military revisionism and sleepwalk into a confrontation”
As European leaders meet with Iran for nuclear talks in Istanbul today, @NathalieTocci and I explain in @POLITICOEurope why we face a critical defining test: will Europe once again take the diplomatic lead or be swayed by the illusion that might makes right?…
President Macron has called for demilitarising Hamas as part of broader push to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is is how to do it by @muhammadshehad2: ecfr.eu/article/decomm…
