Gaza in Podcasts
placeTerritory in the Middle East, subject to conflict between Israel and Hamas, with humanitarian issues.
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Estrin told NPR this idea of highly targeted aid was devised by Israeli military veterans in the hope of starving Hamas to force them to release the remaining hostages in Gaza.
Humanitarian groups that have been working in Gaza, including the United Nations, have also warned this plan amounts to Israel weaponizing aid. Alex DeWall, the executive director of the World Peace Foundation, told Reuters Israel would use facial recognition technology to target and screen those receiving aid.
Israel proposed this system of aid distribution, claiming that Hamas was stealing supplies. It was a condition Israel set for lifting its blockade, which forced hundreds of soup kitchens and aid centers across Gaza to close, effectively pushing out all other aid groups except for the organization now running these new sites, which is called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF.
We'll include a link to Abelson's reporting in our show notes, where you can see all of the deals the Trump family has made since he kicked off his 2024 campaign, with the estimated sales value and revenue generation for each. Now to Gaza, where aid groups have warned that starvation is imminent for over two million Palestinians because Israel has overwhelmingly blocked aid since March.
Israeli forces fired shots at a food distribution site in Gaza. People at risk of starvation had overrun the place. What does the incident say about a new U.S.-backed system to distribute aid?
A couple of million people living in Gaza, and they say they should all starve. To even President Trump. We're going to ask if it'll make a difference on Today Explained.
And then I'm supposed to go to a birthday party. I look down at my phone at smoldering ruins in Ukraine and Gaza and Sudan, and then I look up into a spring day. I know on some level this is always true, that we are just more or less alive to it at different times.
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