A quick take on where things are standing now between #Iran and #Israel , with the qualification that details re the overnight attacks in #Isfahan are still contested by each side 🧵

This is a link to a full table of all vetoes cast since 1946:
scprocedure.org/table-4-vetoes…

And find below a summary of all vetoes, including on applications for UN membership ⬇️

Unfortunately, this has come to pass.

Results of today’s vote:
Yes: 🇩🇿🇪🇨🇨🇳🇫🇷🇬🇾🇲🇹🇲🇿🇸🇱🇸🇮🇷🇺🇯🇵🇰🇷
Abstain:🇨🇭🇬🇧
No: 🇺🇸

'There's an urgent need for diplomacy and access to vital aid.'

Our CEO & President Comfort Ero talks about the situation in Sudan a year into the devastating civil war.

I talk to Elizabeth Hagedorn Al-Monitor about Palestine's bid for full UN membership 👇

al-monitor.com/originals/2024…

In our new report, ‘Stopping Famine in Gaza’, we provide granular data through mapping and satellite imagery on the extent of the damage and destruction and the severity of the food insecurity crisis.

Our key findings: 1/9
crisisgroup.org/middle-east-no…

Interesting The New Yorker (@IChotiner) interview with my colleague Sarah Elaine Harrison on whether the Biden Administration is ignoring American laws by continuing to provide Netanyahu with military aid 👇

newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/w…

Very helpful overview from my colleague Sarah Elaine Harrison on the laws and policies that govern US security assistance and arms sales and how they are being interpreted in the context of the war in Gaza.

I talk to Michelle Langrand Geneva Solutions about the UN liquidity crisis:

There is a 'dichotomy where member states are continuing to mandate things for the UN but then not giving them the funding and resources in order to do [their jobs] properly'

genevasolutions.news/global-news/be…

📢 Required reading for anyone following Gaza, by Lahib Higel لهيب هيجل and Rob Blecher

TLDR: Famine = mass death. Only a prolonged ceasefire can avoid this. Regardless, we need unimpeded, sustained and safe humanitarian access overseen by Gaza's civic authorities

crisisgroup.org/middle-east-no…