E. Mark Windle 18 February 2026. Last year’s nutrition-related headlines in Gaza were hardly in short supply. In the spring of 2025, there was a three-month complete aid blockade on a background of chronically restricted border access. By August, over 54,600 children were acutely malnourished, 40% of pregnant and breastfeeding women were severely malnourished, andContinue reading “Malnutrition Relief or Empty Calories? Gaza Food Aid Composition, Distribution and Effectiveness”
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Failure, Fatalities and Falsehood: The Dire Legacy of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
E. Mark Windle 2 January 2026 From a chronological perspective, my previous book The Hundred Year Hunger ended tracking events in Gaza with its publication during Spring 2025. At that point, Trump’s idea of a US takeover of Gaza was being proposed, and a separate “Arab Plan” for reconstruction was under discussion in Cairo. Meanwhile,Continue reading “Failure, Fatalities and Falsehood: The Dire Legacy of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation”
Gaza and the Floating Pier: The 230 Million Dollar Turkey
E. Mark Windle 22 June 2025. Following the events of 7 October 2023, the effects of Netanyahu’s declaration of war and instructions of a complete blockade by Defence Minister Yoav Gallant were immediate. The water supply via the Mekerot pipeline network into the Strip was halted. Gazans were now wholly dependent on existing stocks ofContinue reading “Gaza and the Floating Pier: The 230 Million Dollar Turkey”
The Hundred Year Hunger. Reflecting on a Work in Progress
The paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve. Ilan Pappé, On Palestine E. Mark Windle 17 December 2024 When I started out on theContinue reading “The Hundred Year Hunger. Reflecting on a Work in Progress”