In focus
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Much-needed emergency aid and sanitation assistance provides hope and dignity
The al-Saftawi neighborhood in Gaza got a glimmer of hope in an otherwise desperate situation when a truck loaded with food parcels and dignity kits, including sanitary products, safely arrived into a part of Gaza City, a community that has been systemically impacted by the ongoing war.
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Humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate
-We have team members who have lost relatives over the weekend as well as family members seriously injured. The resilience of our colleagues on the ground is simply indescribable, says Flynn.
![REFORMs frivillig maler et palestinsk flagg på en jente](https://www.npaid.org/media/files/featured/_390x245_crop_center-center_82_none/1364686/IMG_9099.jpg?c=20240530104612)
REFORM in times of crisis
What do you do when the war puts restrictions on how you do your job? For project coordinator Esra Obaid in REFORM, with an office in the West Bank, she and her colleagues had to think in new ways. The answer was training volunteers who in turn teach other volunteers how to protect themselves from explosives - both when they rain down around you, but also what to do when you find them undetonated on the ground.
![Hinamoeura som barn sitter på armen til moren sin](https://www.npaid.org/media/files/featured/_390x245_crop_center-center_82_none/PHOTO-2024-04-11-23-44-44.jpg?c=20240523221929)
Decolonizing the mind
The Tahitian parliamentarian Hinamoeura Morgant-Cross, or Hina as friends call her, was seven years old when the last nuclear bomb was tested in French Polynesia in 1996. Well, test is a word Hina wouldn’t use. – It wasn’t tests; it was bombs. And France detonated a lot of them, 193 to be exact, from the 1960s to the 1990s.
![Distribution of NFI's (Non-food items) by emergency response rooms in Zam Zam IDP Camp in North-Darfur, December 2023.](https://www.npaid.org/media/files/featured/_390x245_crop_center-center_82_none/Sudan3-Zam-Zam-Camp-ERR-Distribution.jpg?c=20240415125659)
Grave concern over the situation in Sudan
On the 15th of April, one year will have passed since full scale civil war broke out in Sudan. The situation is beyond dire, over 8 million people are displaced from their homes and the UN recently warned that the population is facing catastrophic hunger. The hope of a democratic Sudan now seems far away, and the country is a glaring example of how fragile democratic transitional periods can be after a peaceful people led revolution.
![Israeli bulldozer demolishing house of Palestinian family in the West Bank](https://www.npaid.org/media/files/featured/_390x245_crop_center-center_82_none/NTB_J2uO4LeBzWw.jpg?c=20240704185218)
Important signal from Norwegian government on trade with, and investments in, illegal settlements
On Thursday, March 7th, the Norwegian government issued an official recommendation to Norwegian companies to avoid trade and business activities with and in the illegal Israeli settlements.