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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 5h

Outside actors should seize the opportunity of Gaza ceasefire diplomacy to act on Israel quickening annexation of the West Bank. They should use their leverage, including trade and arms sales, to press the country to stop the entrenchment. crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 6h

Israel’s far-right government is restructuring the occupation of the West Bank. Outside actors should squarely face the reality of annexation, and impose meaningful costs on the country. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

Sovereignty in All but Name: Israel’s Quickening Annexation of the West Bank | International Crisis Group

With prominent members serving in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the settler movement is steering the Israeli state toward establishing formal permanent control of the occupied West B...

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 6h

NEW REPORT | Sovereignty in All but Name: Israel’s Quickening Annexation of the West Bank

Netanyahu’s government is moving towards establishing permanent control of the occupied West Bank. Outside powers should commit to pushing Israel to change course.

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 7h

🎊 30 years ago, @crisisgroup.org was born from the international community’s failure to prevent war in Bosnia.

Last weekend, we returned to Sarajevo - where it all began - for our board meeting, joined by every past president.

Here’s to the next 30 years of peacebuilding.

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Olya Oliker aka Dr. Olga Oliker (she/her) @olyaoliker.bsky.social · 2d

The logic of Russian military assistance (including deployments of Wagner and Africa Corps), explained in a short video, with excellent maps, from @crisisgroup.org w/the erudite Pauline Bax narrating! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0yI...

MAPPING CONFLICT | Russia’s Growing Influence in Africa

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

Pour les dernières analyses de nos experts, abonnez-vous ici. ⬇️

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

📨 La troisième édition de notre newsletter trimestrielle en français est désormais disponible.

Au menu : élections présidentielles au Cameroun et en Côte d’Ivoire, les répercussions de la guerre au Soudan sur le Tchad et dix défis majeurs pour l’ONU en 2025-2026.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Important commentary from my @crisisgroup.org colleague @mairavz.bsky.social.

I will add that American domestic politics are slowly shifting on this relationship.

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Opinion | Israel Cannot Go On Winning Like This

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

🎧 SPECIAL EPISODE | Hold Your Fire!

We speak with Rob Malley about the latest Gaza talks, his new book on the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and the region after 7 October 2023.

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Special Episode: Rob Malley on Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wider Middle East | International Crisis Group

Richard speaks with Rob Malley, former Crisis Group president and former official in several U.S. Democratic administrations about the latest Gaza talks, his new book on the collapse of the Israeli-Pa...

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

🔴 ‘Our message over the past two years has been consistent: securing a ceasefire in Gaza, linked to the hostages’ release and massive humanitarian access, is the necessary first step for stabilising the region.’

Read @comfortero.crisisgroup.org’s message on Gaza.

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Two Years on: Gaza Has Paid the Price for Global Inaction

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

‘The grim trajectory in Gaza since October 7 was not inevitable. The fact is that the world let this disaster happen.’

Absent immediate action by the outside world, Gaza could soon be physically erased. Such an outcome would stain a generation of world leaders

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

🔴 ‘These multiple conflicts have shattered long-standing assumptions of deterrence and pushed the Middle East toward an arms race. Each pause in fighting in Gaza was squandered, broken either by renewed military operations or by the absence of a sustainable political framework.’

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

‘Gaza has spurred deadly violence in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, reaching a peak with war in June between Israel and Iran.’

In this recent event, our experts unpacked how October 7 reshaped the region. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtYi...

A New Middle East Order?

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

🔴 ‘Israel has serially uprooted, starved and bombed its people, and flattened entire cities. At least 67,000 Palestinians have been killed and 170,000 injured, numbers that are 50 times the toll among Israelis.’

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The Gaza Starvation Experiment | International Crisis Group

Israel’s new U.S.-backed aid scheme in Gaza integrates food into military strategy. Since the war began, Israel has restricted aid, easing up when famine alerts appeared, tightening as attention faded...

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

‘The shock and sorrow of October 7 left Israelis with a profound sense of vulnerability. But the nature of that response has brought a wholly different scale of catastrophe to Gaza.’

Our recent statement on the strip. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

The World’s Shame in Gaza | International Crisis Group

Israel’s Gaza campaign has entered an even more nightmarish phase. The world must press Israel harder to stop the war regardless of “day after” questions – lest its offensive destroy Palestinian life ...

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

‘@crisisgroup.org experts are watching the situation minute-by-minute, and offering thoughts on how best to make something out of the proposal from President Trump that has at long last put the machinery of diplomacy in motion.’

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

‘Although the prospect of a truce has, just in the last week, drawn tantalisingly close, the bombardment of Gaza continues, and so does the captivity of hostages with all the anguish it entails.’

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What to Make of Trump’s Gaza Plan? | International Crisis Group

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard talks with Crisis Group experts Michael Hanna, Max Rodenbeck, Amjad Iraqi and Mairav Zonszein about Donald Trump’s proposed Gaza peace plan, who might benefit fro...

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

‘Two years on, Gaza has paid the price for global inaction.’

As we mark Hamas’s attacks against Israel on 7 October 2023, @crisisgroup.org’s CEO and President @comfortero.crisisgroup.org reflects on what has unfolded since - and the urgent choices now before us. 1/9 🧵

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 3d

🗒️ NEW ANALYST’S NOTEBOOK | Parliamentary Elections in Post-Assad Syria

Nanar Hawach analyses Syria’s 5 October parliamentary elections – the first since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.

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Parliamentary Elections in Post-Assad Syria | International Crisis Group

Crisis Group expert Nanar Hawach analyses Syria’s 5 October parliamentary elections – the first since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 3d

NEW UPDATE | CrisisWatch: October

Our monthly conflict tracker highlights seven conflict risks and one resolution opportunity.

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 3d

Our latest Analyst’s Notebooks are out.

🇬🇳 Franklin Nossiter on Guinea’s political divisions.
🇭🇹 Daniel Forti on the UN vote to create a Gang Suppression Force in Haiti
🇲🇩 Marta Mucznik on Moldova’s pro-European integration party.

Read the latest insights here: www.crisisgroup.org/latest-updat...

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 5d

“Hamas has actually made rather a smart move by saying 'yes and' or 'yes but'. In that kind of approach, they helped to kind of throw the ball back into the courts of Netanyahu.”

Our analyst with @reuters.com on whether the war in Gaza is close to ending.

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After Trump's intervention, how close is the Gaza war to ending?

President Donald Trump has urged Israel to halt its bombing of Gaza after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accepted some key parts of a U.S. peace plan — a shift that could mean a two-year-old war is finally coming to a close.

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 5d

NEW UPDATE | On Our Radar

🔴 Donald Trump unveils a 20-point plan for ending the war in Gaza.
🔴 Washington revokes Colombian President's visa to visit the U.S.
🔴 The UN Security Council reimposes UN sanctions on Iran.

www.crisisgroup.org/global/our-r...

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 6d

🚨 New update from our global conflict tracker.

⚡️ 7 risk alerts in October

↘️ 12 conflict deteriorations

🕊️ 1 resolution opportunity

www.crisisgroup.org/crisiswatch?...

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Complex Risk Analytics Fund @crafddata.bsky.social · 6d

#UNGARecap With CRAF’d support, @crisisgroup.org is launching eEARTH which helps decision-makers act before violence erupts.

Explore how leaders are reimagining crisis response through collaboration and technology.

Watch here: tinyurl.com/52rvtpxr

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