Stand With
Coverage isn’t distributed by need. A war gets sustained attention when it suits the people reporting on it, and silence when it doesn’t — and that has very little to do with how many people are dying in it.
Six places are listed below. Some of what was done to them came from outside. Some came from their own governments. Several have had both at once, and each entry says plainly which.
🇵🇸 Palestine
Sumoud — Palestine will not be forgotten.
Palestine is here because it is the longest-running unresolved question in modern international politics, and because the last three years have made the cost of that unresolved status impossible to misplace. The US-brokered plan adopted in November 2025 established a ceasefire in Gaza that is broadly holding, though it remains in the first of three phases, Israeli forces remain inside the strip along the “yellow line,” and the deadliest incidents continue to occur around sites sheltering civilians. In the occupied West Bank, raids and settlement expansion have not paused at all. In January 2024 the International Court of Justice found a plausible risk of genocide and ordered provisional measures; Amnesty International and other rights organisations have since concluded the threshold was met. Israel rejects the characterisation. What gets left out of most coverage is the length of the Palestinian tradition of unarmed resistance — the 1936 general strike, the mass civil disobedience and boycotts of the First Intifada, the weekly village demonstrations at Bil’in and Nabi Saleh, the BDS call of 2005. It should also be said that Palestinians live under two authorities that suppress their dissent: the occupation, and their own governing bodies in Ramallah and Gaza.
🇱🇧 Lebanon
Libnan ma bymout — Lebanon never dies.
Lebanon is on this list because it demonstrates both halves of the argument at once. From outside: Israeli invasions in 1978, 1982 and 2006, Syrian military occupation from 1976 to 2005, and the war that ran from 2023 until the ceasefire announced in June 2026, under which the Lebanese army has begun a phased disarmament and Israel continues to hold territory. From inside: a sectarian power-sharing class that has governed the country as a shared inheritance for three decades. In 2019 the currency lost the overwhelming majority of its value and the banks simply closed to ordinary depositors. In August 2020, 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that officials had been warned about for six years detonated in the port of Beirut, killing more than 200 people and flattening half the city. No senior official has been convicted. The Lebanese response was the October 2019 uprising — the thawra — which was cross-sectarian, largely leaderless, and aimed at the entire political establishment rather than one faction of it. Its slogan was kellon yaani kellon: all of them means all of them.
🇸🇩 Sudan
Tasqut bas — Sudan rises.
Sudan is the largest humanitarian catastrophe on earth and receives a fraction of the coverage of conflicts a tenth its size. Since April 2023 the country has been torn apart by two generals — the Sudanese Armed Forces under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces under Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo — who had jointly seized power from Sudan’s civilian transition before turning on each other. In October 2025 the RSF took El Fasher after an eighteen-month siege; the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab’s satellite analysis estimated 30,000 to 60,000 killed there alone, and in July 2026 a UN fact-finding mission concluded the RSF’s campaign in Darfur amounts to genocide. Famine is confirmed in El Fasher and Kadugli, and 24.6 million Sudanese face acute hunger. The RSF’s principal external backer is the United Arab Emirates, which took roughly 90% of Sudan’s official gold exports in the first half of 2025 and which Sudan has formally accused before the International Court of Justice of complicity; the UAE denies supplying any party. The SAF is not clean either — it has conducted indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilian areas. Against all of this, Sudan’s neighbourhood Resistance Committees — the same networks that brought down Omar al-Bashir in 2019, after the uprisings of 1964 and 1985 — are still running communal kitchens and clinics under fire. It is the most remarkable civil resistance story of the six, and almost nobody outside Sudan can name it.
🇾🇪 Yemen
Samoud — Yemen endures.
Yemen has been called the forgotten war for so long that the phrase has stopped registering. Around 22 million people — roughly half the population — need humanitarian assistance in 2026, and 18.3 million are acutely food insecure, with conditions deteriorating rather than improving. The country’s modern history is one of repeatedly removing whoever is ruling it: the 1962 revolution against the imamate, the campaign that ended British colonial rule in Aden in 1967, and the 2011 uprising in which mass nonviolent protest forced out Ali Abdullah Saleh after thirty-three years and won Tawakkol Karman the Nobel Peace Prize. What followed was not liberation. The Houthi movement took Sanaa in 2014; a Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015 with Emirati forces and with arms, targeting support and logistics from the United States and United Kingdom. Both sides have made civilians the cost of the war. The coalition’s airstrikes and import restrictions have been documented at length; the Houthi authorities detain UN and aid workers on espionage accusations, to the point that the World Food Programme terminated operations across the north. In July 2026 the war escalated again, with strikes on Sanaa airport and a Houthi blockade on shipping linked to Saudi Arabia.
🇦🇲 Armenia
Yes hishum yem yev pahanjum yem — I remember and I demand.
Armenia is on this list because of what happened in September 2023 and because of how directly it connects to everything above. After a nine-month blockade of the Lachin corridor cut Nagorno-Karabakh off from food, fuel and medicine, Azerbaijan launched a twenty-four-hour offensive. Within about a week, more than 100,000 Armenians — effectively the entire population — had left. The connection worth naming is the arms trade: according to SIPRI, Azerbaijan sourced 69% of its major weapons imports from Israel in the years leading up to the 2020 war, including the Harop and Harpy loitering munitions used in both offensives, paid for in significant part with Azerbaijani oil that supplies a substantial share of Israel’s needs. CNN and Israeli outlets reported Azerbaijani military cargo flights running between a southern Israeli airbase and Azerbaijan in the weeks before the 2023 assault. Armenians are also still waiting for acknowledgement of the 1915 genocide from the Turkish state — the phrase above is the slogan carried every 24 April. And the pattern of resistance holds here too: the 2018 Velvet Revolution removed a government through weeks of sustained street protest without a single protester killed. A peace agreement was initialled in Washington in August 2025 but remains unsigned, and Armenia has in practice given up on the return of Karabakh’s displaced.
🇮🇪 Ireland
Tiocfaidh ár lá — our day will come.
Ireland is last on this page deliberately, and it deserves an explanation rather than a slogan. Nobody in Ireland today is under bombardment or facing famine. It is a prosperous European democracy, and putting it in a straight line with Sudan or Gaza in 2026 would be dishonest. It is here for two other reasons. The first is that Ireland is the template — eight centuries under a neighbouring power, and every instrument that shows up elsewhere in this list appears there first: plantation and settlement, laws written to strip a population of land and language, partition imposed as a settlement, and a famine between 1845 and 1852 in which roughly a million people died and another million emigrated while food was exported from Irish ports. The response ran from the 1798 rebellion through the Land War, the 1916 Rising, and the Northern civil rights movement of 1968, which modelled itself explicitly on the American one and was met at Derry in 1972 with thirteen unarmed people shot dead. The second reason is what came afterwards. Irish solidarity with Palestine is among the most consistent in Europe — Ireland was among the first EU states to recognise Palestinian statehood in 2024 — and it is not an accident. It is what a country does when it still remembers. Ireland is last on this page because it is the one that came out the other side, and that is precisely the argument: this is what survival looks like, and this is what you owe once you have it.
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