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Yara M. Asi

@yara-asi.bsky.social

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Asst Prof, global health. My book "How War Kills": http://tinyurl.com/How-War-Kills فلسطين Fellow, Arab Center DC Fellow, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) US Fulbright Scholar, West Bank Co-Director, Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Nov 18

🧵 With all the movement over to this app, I wanted to take a minute to share a few of my (and my amazing co-authors) most recent (from 2024) publications on #Palestine, some peer-reviewed articles (all open access) and some shorter policy briefs and pieces for popular media.

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · 13h

Amid one of the worst periods of mass displacement for Palestinians in our history, I wrote about structural oppression of Palestinian refugees for Health Education & Behavior.

Refugee Health Under Protracted Structural Oppression: The Palestinian Story journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 12d

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.”

We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

MSF forced to suspend activities amid Israeli offensive in Gaza City | MSF

The intense Israeli forces' offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at an unacceptable level of risk to continue our lifesaving activities.

www.msf.org

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · 12d

We've been working on this piece for a long time, and it's finally out!

The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination

Should be open access but currently behind a paywall, DM if you'd like a PDF!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Abstract for article "The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination"

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · 12d

My latest for @arabcenterdc.org is on the US suspension of the visa process used to bring Palestinian children that need complex surgeries and treatments, in large part due to their injuries from the US-funded weapons used by Israel to devastate Gaza. Read here: arabcenterdc.org/resource/gaz...

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · 14d

The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces its 27th annual Palestinian research fellowship competition for research in the humanities and social sciences that will contribute to Palestinian Studies. Apps due Dec 4.

Details: www.parc-us-pal.org/fellowships-...

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · 18d

Speaking at the 2nd annual Doctors Against Genocide conference this weekend. Info or register here: doctorsagainstgenocide.org/events

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Arab Center Washington DC @arabcenterdc.org · Aug 19

Yara M. Asi outlines the shift to widespread expert consensus that #Israel’s actions in #Gaza constitute #genocide. @yara-asi.bsky.social

The Growing Consensus over Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

Just one week after October 7, 2023, more than 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and genocide studies signed a public statement “to sound the alarm about the possi...

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Arab Center Washington DC @arabcenterdc.org · Aug 18

Join us on 8/26 to discuss the current situation in #Gaza and what might come next after 22 months of #Genocide.

Speakers: @yara-asi.bsky.social, @dianabuttu.bsky.social, Mouin Rabbani, @jeremyscahill.com, and Yousef Munayyer.

For more info and to register👇
arabcenterdc.org/event/what-c...

What Comes Next in Gaza?

Experts discuss the current situation on the ground in Gaza and around the world as a growing number of states continue to break with Israel over its conduct in the besieged strip.

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Aug 1

This week we hosted @yara-asi.bsky.social and Bushra Khalidi for a webinar on how Israel's famine is unfolding in Gaza, how it was enabled, and what must be done to address the disaster and its lasting effects. Watch here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk1U...

Israel’s Famine in Gaza: What the World Must Know

YouTube video by Institute for Palestine Studies

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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · Jul 30

“There is not merely a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in Gaza—there is a crisis of despicable inaction by the people in the world with the power to stop Israel from starving, killing, and maiming the Palestinian people.”
— @yara-asi.bsky.social, DAWN Fellow

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you for sharing @danaelkurd.bsky.social 🙏

Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Jul 29

People have been warning about this for nearly two years. Today, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirms: Worst-case scenario of famine unfolding in the Gaza Strip

www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Jul 28

Agreeing with what Palestinians have been saying for nearly 2 years, & what an increasing chorus of international human rights organizations & experts affirm, today Israeli NGOs @btselem & @PHRIsrael agree: Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip

www.btselem.org/press_releas...

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Jul 25

They already tried the airdrops. They’re horribly inefficient, especially now in the face of mass starvation, & they killed Palestinians by landing on them. Every humanitarian agency on earth says they’re a bad idea & performative.

Stop letting Israel dictate the terms. Open the crossings.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Jul 25

Israel will allow foreign countries to airdrop aid into Gaza, an Israeli security source says, as the country faces mounting backlash over a spiraling hunger crisis in the Palestinian enclave.

Israel says it will let foreign countries drop aid into Gaza as hunger crisis spirals

Airdrops into Gaza have previously been criticized as insufficient and impractical. The United Nations has called for an urgent ceasefire, though talks appeared Friday to have collapsed.

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Jul 21

Aid workers in Gaza: "We’re in the death phase...everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying."

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Terror and chaos for Gaza’s people now entering the ‘death phase’

After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, UN aid teams on Monday described “mayhem” and starvation in the enclave as the Israeli milit...

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Jul 15

In Gaza, ten children per day lose one or both of their legs due to Israeli bombings.

More than 875 Palestinians have been killed trying to get aid for their families in recent weeks.

Unimaginable, unending cruelty.

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oPt (Gaza) Protection Analysis Update | Global Protection Cluster

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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · Jul 11

"Palestinians must now brave what have been increasingly referred to as ‘killing fields’ just for the chance to retrieve food for their families.”
— @yara-asi.bsky.social, DAWN Fellow.

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Jun 30

Call for Applications: Palestine Social Medicine Course (virtual this year!)

We are proud to host the 3rd annual Palestine Social Medicine Course—a 2-week summer program that explores the determinants of health in Palestine.

Apps due July 7.

Info: icph.birzeit.edu/events/call-...

Call for Applications: Palestine Social Medicine Course | ICPH

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Jun 25

Extremely proud of my former student Amro, then a med student & now a physician in Gaza, who wrote about the war on dialysis patients for @nybooks.com

“The lives of dialysis patients have become a constant balancing act between hope and exhaustion.”

Check it out: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Gaza: The War on Dialysis | Amro Hamada

Getting sick in Gaza means entering a system that is itself on life support. To see a doctor in the first place, if you can’t afford the outrageous cost

www.nybooks.com

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · Jun 24

This happens every day now. Daily massacres of starving people desperate for food, killed by the same state military that has been bombing and besieging them.

I wrote about this for @arabcenterdc.org: Hunger in Gaza and the Ongoing Weaponization of Aid

Read here: arabcenterdc.org/resource/hun...

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Arab Center Washington DC @arabcenterdc.org · Jun 20

Yara M. Asi describes #Israel’s weaponizing humanitarian aid for the people of #Gaza and the role that the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation plays in the process. @yara-asi.bsky.social

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Hunger in Gaza and the Ongoing Weaponization of Aid

“Hunger slowly crushes you. It feels like dying alone in a desert that no foot has ever touched. I cannot sleep properly or sit still long enough to read. I feel I’m coming apart.” These words were wr...

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DAWN @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social · Jun 10

Join the Arab Center Washington DC's discussion tomorrow, June 11, 10:30 AM ET, on Israel's destruction of Gaza and the implications for the legal question of genocide.

Speakers: DAWN's @sarahleah1.bsky.social, @yara-asi.bsky.social, @jehadabusalim.bsky.social, Raz Segal, and Yousef Munayyer

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A Historic Juncture: Israel’s Destruction of Gaza and the Palestinian Future - Arab Center Washington DC

Experts address the status of human rights after genocidal violence was unleashed on Gaza, the scale and scope of destruction and loss, as well as the need for accountability.

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · May 21

My latest in @theconversation.com: Israel has promised ‘basic amount’ of food into Gaza − but its policies have already created catastrophic starvation risk for millions

Check it out here: theconversation.com/israel-has-p...

Israel has promised ‘basic amount’ of food into Gaza − but its policies have already created catastrophic starvation risk for millions

Before Oct. 7, 2023, Gaza’s food system was at a breaking point. Now, 18 months of war and Israeli siege have helped create the conditions for mass starvation.

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · May 20

I'll be speaking at the upcoming @arabcenterdc.org event: A Historic Juncture: Israel’s Destruction of Gaza and the Palestinian Future

Weds, June 11 in DC

Join in-person or virtually: arabcenterdc.org/event/a-hist...

A Historic Juncture: Israel’s Destruction of Gaza and the Palestinian Future - Arab Center Washington DC

Experts discuss destruction of Gaza through multiple perspectives and the future for Palestinian society and international relations.

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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · May 7

Our latest in @whoemro.bsky.social Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal:

Food insecurity, starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip

It’s only gotten much worse since we wrote this.

Read for free here: applications.emro.who.int/EMHJ/V31/04/...

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