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Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow for the MENA Programme at Chatham House. The “truce” in Gaza reads more like a reduction in intensity, while the conditions of civilian life remain precarious: Ongoing military operations, persistent hunger, inadequate shelter. He sees the humanitarian picture as a collective failure of governance and international mobilisation. All-out bans on dozens of key humanitarian providers, including UNRWA, translate directly into the daily suffering of ordinary people, especially children.

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