In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP Fellow Rania Batrice speaks with Palestinian communication and advocacy specialist Riham Jafari about Gaza and the West Bank, focusing specifically on the impact of the last nine months on women and girls, on the health system in Gaza, and on the use of starvation as a weapon against the Palestinians in Gaza.

Rania Batrice is an activist and strategist for progressive change, a public relations specialist, and a political consultant. She is one of two FMEP 2024 Palestinian non-resident Fellows.

Riham Jafari is a Palestinian communication and advocacy specialist with more than 14 years experience working with the UN and international NGOs. She currently works with ActionAid -Palestine as communication and advocacy coordinator conveying messages of marginalized groups as Palestinian women and youth and advocating for freedom, rights, and independence of Palestinian people in local and international forums.

 

Resources on the topics addressed in this podcast:

FMEP podcasts:

• “Incitement, Displacement, Destruction, Willful Flouting of International Law”: Israel’s Assault on Al Shifa Hospital; (Yara Asi & Sarah Anne Minkin)
• Dead, Disabled, Displaced, Detained, Orphaned: The Toll of Israel’s War on Palestinian Children (Yara Asi with Miranda Cleland and Hamdi Shaqqura)
• “Famine is a Massacre in Slow Motion:” On Mass Hunger & Israel’s Culpability in Gaza; (Alex de Waal & Yara Asi)
• From Israel’s Blockade to the Siege on Al Shifa Hospital: Public Health in Gaza ; (Yara Asi & Sarah Anne Minkin)

FMEP 2024 Congressional Briefing, “The Gaza Catastrophe”

On the health crisis in Gaza, see resources from Medical Aid for Palestinians