A-Dub 🥝the NZ government's Marae Emergency Response Fund should get continuing funding at a hefty level - marae responses to civil defence emergencies have been lifesaving and hugely important to communities up and down the motu. this will become only more important with time as the climate emergency progresses
StrypeyMaybe a sensible government would be swap the budgets for military defence and Civil Defence at this point? Requiring any defence purchases to be suitable for the latter, since that's what they're going to be used for almost all the time.
In the rare event Aotearoa needs military defence, the armed forces could requisition the gear they need from CD. But natural disasters have killed far more kiwis in the last 100 years than military threats.
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Big love to everyone around Te Whanganui-a-Tara who is coping with the extreme weatherbomb hitting the area over the last couple of days, and apparently forecast to continue today;
You folks are in my thoughts. If there's anything folks in The Tron and elsewhere who haven't been hit so hard can do for you - *anything* please sing out! I'll see what I can organise, even if it means heading up there.
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mama.melancholia
Susan Ville📌 #civildefence #coordination - #emergencyresponse #data
#lebanon Response Plan: #weather Storm Response Situation Update - March 2026
📑 PDF (embedded) provided by OPD/UNHCR 👇🏽
#jerusalem: Israeli soldiers abuse a Palestinian youth
#westbank #invasion #silenteurope #EUwarcrimes #USwarcrimes #warcrimes #crimesagainstHumanity #genocide #palestine #news
#law #UNfail #ihl
#civildefence #PRCS
Video: Arab48
القدس: جنود ينكلون بشاب فلسطيني
📌 Rapidly escalating conflict drives #displacement and deteriorating #foodsecurity
🔸 Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes are expected to spread across South and El-Nabatieh — as well as areas receiving newly displaced populations in Beirut and Mount Lebanon — following a sharp escalation of regional conflict in March 2026
#lebanon #waronlebanon #middleeast #news #emergencyresponse #data
📑 Check graphics, sheets and download links here 👇🏽
https://fews.net/middle-east-and-asia/lebanon/key-message-update/march-2026
Rapidly escalating conflict drives displacement and deteriorating food security
This Key Message Update provides a high-level analysis of current acute food insecurity conditions and any changes to FEWS NET's March 2026 to September 2026 projection of acute food insecurity outcomes in Lebanon.
📢 Al Mayadeen: Two Palestinians were killed, others injured following an Israeli aggression carried out by a drone near a Mosque in the al-Mawasi area of #rafah, S- #gaza
🔹 MoH Gaza: Hospitals across the Strip received five bodies over the past 24 h as a result of continued Israeli aggression
🔹 A number of victims are still trapped under the rubble, lying on roads, amid the inability of ambulance and #civildefence teams to reach them
📰 Report MAR-31 #news
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gaza-reports-deadly-toll-as-israeli-aggression-persists
🔔 Update 📢 More details on Israeli strikes in southern #lebanon - #civildefence officials say an Israeli air strike has killed 🕯️four farmers and wounded nine other people in the town of al-Haniyah
Source: Civil defence officials told Al Jazeera Arabic the attack targeted Syrian farmers working in the area --- Al Jazeera
📰 Report NNA MAR-28 10:00 CET
https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/news/153349/israeli-strike-kills-four-farmers-in-southern-lebanon-2
📢 🕯️ #lebanon - Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Center said in a statement that an Israeli airstrike on a #civildefence #ambulance operated by the Islamic #health Organization in Kfartbnit killed one #paramedic and wounded four others
🔹 Ministry condemned the attack, calling it "an additional #warcrime in the ongoing pattern of Israeli violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) and the #genevaconventions "
📰 NNA MAR-28 08:00 Beirut-t