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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 9h

📨 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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Opinion | Israel Cannot Go On Winning Like This

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14h

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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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 9h

🎧 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...

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

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

🔴 ‘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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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

‘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 · 1d

🔴 ‘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 · 1d

‘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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The Gaza Starvation Experiment | International Crisis Group

Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

🔴 ‘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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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...

The World’s Shame in Gaza | International Crisis Group

Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

‘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-...

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 · 1d

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

Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

‘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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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...

Parliamentary Elections in Post-Assad Syria | International Crisis Group

Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 1d

‘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 · 2d

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

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

Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

NEW UPDATE | CrisisWatch: October

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

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 2d

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 · 3d

“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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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 · 4d

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.

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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 4d

🚨 New update from our global conflict tracker.

⚡️ 7 risk alerts in October

↘️ 12 conflict deteriorations

🕊️ 1 resolution opportunity

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Complex Risk Analytics Fund @crafddata.bsky.social · 5d

#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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Crisis Group @crisisgroup.org · 5d

🗒️ NEW ANALYST’S NOTEBOOK | Guinea’s Call to Elections Exposes Military Bid to Cling to Power

@franklinnoss.bsky.social analyses General Doumbouya’s designs on securing victory in presidential polls despite an earlier promise not to seek an electoral mandate.

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Guinea’s Call to Elections Exposes Military Bid to Cling to Power | International Crisis Group

Crisis Group expert Franklin Nossiter analyses General Doumbouya’s designs on securing victory in presidential polls despite an earlier promise not to seek an electoral mandate.

Una nueva fuerza para combatir las pandillas en Haití recibe el respaldo del Consejo de Seguridad | International Crisis Group

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Crisis Group Latinoamérica @latam.crisisgroup.org · 6d

Una nueva fuerza para combatir las pandillas en #Haití recibe el respaldo del Consejo de Seguridad

El experto de @crisisgroup.org @fortid.crisisgroup.org analiza la votación en la ONU para crear una Fuerza de Represión de Pandillas y los retos que se avecinan para restablecer la seguridad en Haití.

El experto de Crisis Group Daniel Forti analiza la votación en la ONU para crear una Fuerza de Represión de Pandillas y los retos que se avecinan en su intento por restablecer la seguridad en Haití.