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How to Think About Solutions in Gaza and Sudan

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this week, thousands of Palestinians stormed an aid distribution site in Gaza, underlining the ongoing humanitarian crisis there and prompting the question: Why isn’t the world doing more? Martin Griffiths served as the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator at the United Nations from 2021 until 2024. He is currently with the Mediation Group International and joins Ravi Agrawal to push for solutions to the multiple crises spanning our globe. Suggested reading: Neha Wadekar: The World’s Refugee Relief Is Utterly Broken David E. Rosenberg: The Old War Is Over in Gaza, and a New One Is Underway Michael Hirsh: A New Authoritarian Era in the Mideast? Robbie Gramer: How the U.S. Fumbled Sudan’s Hopes for Democracy Brought to you by: nordvpn.com/fplive (Exclusive NordVPN Deal: Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.9

So we are in such a siloed news ecosystem that it is genuinely hard to keep track of things.

0:48.6

The reality is there is a long list of global humanitarian crises right now.

0:56.6

Many of them are man-made. Most of them get very little attention. Almost all of them feel intractable. According to the

1:02.9

UN's refugee agency, 120 million people are displaced worldwide by violence or persecution. That is 1.5% of humanity.

1:14.6

And these people come from countries like Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and many others.

1:21.6

I want to shine a spotlight on two in particular today, Sudan and Gaza. Sudan has been in the throes of civil war for two years now.

1:31.6

An estimated 150,000 people have been killed and upwards of 14 million people have been displaced from

1:38.6

their homes. A famine is underway. Disease is spreading. This is the world's biggest humanitarian crisis,

1:47.1

but you wouldn't know it from media coverage. And then there's Gaza. The Israeli defense

1:52.6

force is threatening a new ground offensive while continuing its air assault. Last weekend,

1:58.5

it said it struck 200 sites across Gaza in 48 hours, targeting what it called terrorist organizations.

2:05.6

But one of those targets included a school in which 54 Palestinians were killed, including many children.

2:12.6

After 600 days of war, the death toll in Gaza has now ticked well past 50,000.

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