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☆ Gaza Needs Fuel for Relief Efforts to Continue, U.N. Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A United Nations relief agency working in the Gaza Strip said it will run out of fuel in three days, which will hinder its ability to provide humanitarian aid to the enclave’s more than 2 million residents. The limited amount of aid trucked into Gaza from Egypt over the weekend—mostly medical supplies, food and bottled water—didn’t include fuel. “Without fuel, there will be no water, no functioning hospitals and bakeries,” the U.N. agency said. “Without fuel, there will be no humanitarian assistance.”

Persons: ” Locations: Nations, Gaza, Egypt

☆ Turkey sends humanitarian aid plane to Egypt for Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

ISTANBUL, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Turkey sent a plane with a medical team and supplies to Egypt on Sunday carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. "Our plane took off to help Gaza. The presidential plane filled with medicine and medical supplies, carrying 20 specialist doctors, departed from Ankara to Egypt," Koca said in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The footage shared by the minister showed boxes marked with their contents being loaded onto a Turkish presidency plane. It says aid can enter through Egypt provided supplies do not end up in the hands of Hamas.

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A convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza for the first time since the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas militants. Egyptian officials said 20 trucks filled with medical supplies and some food crossed into Gaza on Saturday morning before Egypt closed the border again. Citizens of the U.S. and other foreign countries stuck in Gaza weren’t able to enter Egypt, the officials said.

Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel, Egypt

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza opened on Saturday to let desperately needed aid flow to Palestinians running short of food, medicine and water in the territory that is under an Israeli siege. More than 200 trucks carrying roughly 3,000 tons of aid, which had been positioned near the crossing for days, began heading into Gaza. Many in Gaza, reduced to eating one meal a day and without enough water to drink, are waiting desperately for the aid. Hundreds of foreign passport holders also waited to cross from Gaza to Egypt to escape the conflict. Israel said Friday it does not plan to take long-term control over the tiny territory, home to some 2.3 million Palestinians.

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Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are nearing collapse under the Israeli blockade that cut power and deliveries of food and other necessities to the territory. Israel's offensive has devastated neighborhoods, shuttered five hospitals, killed thousands and wounded more people than its remaining health facilities can handle. The medical center is still treating hundreds of patients in defiance of an evacuation order the Israeli military gave Friday. A shortage of surgical supplies forced some staff to use sewing needles to stitch wounds, which Abed said can damage tissue. When Israel cut fuel to the territory's sole power plant two weeks ago, Gaza's rumbling generators kicked in to keep life-support equipment running in hospitals.

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☆ Trucks to Enter Gaza Carrying Medical Supplies and Food - Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Oct. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

Trucks carrying aid wait to enter the Palestinian side of the border with Egypt, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, as seen from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in this still picture taken from a video October 21, 2023. REUTERS/Reuters TV Reuters

Organizations: Hamas, REUTERS, Reuters Locations: Egypt, Israel, Palestinian, Rafah, Gaza

☆ Gaza-Egypt Border Closed Again After Allowing in Some Aid
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza closed shortly after it had opened Saturday morning to allow trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter the enclave, which has been cut off from deliveries of food and other essentials since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7. Egyptian officials said 20 trucks filled with mostly medical supplies and a limited amount of food crossed into Gaza. The World Health Organization said it sent four trucks carrying trauma medicine and equipment to treat as many as 1,200 injured people, as well as medication for 1,500 patients with chronic illnesses. The WHO said it also provided basic essential medicine and health supplies for 300,000 people for three months. “The supplies currently heading into Gaza will barely begin to address the escalating health needs as hostilities continue to grow,” the WHO said.

Organizations: World Health Organization, WHO Locations: Rafah, Egypt, Gaza, Israel

☆ Trucks to enter Gaza carrying medical supplies and food - Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Trucks carrying aid arrive at the Palestinian side of the border with Egypt, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 21, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa Acquire Licensing RightsCAIRO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A convoy including 20 aid trucks was due to enter the Gaza Strip on Saturday from Egypt carrying medicine and food supplies, a statement from Palestinian group Hamas said. "The relief aid convoy that is supposed to enter [Gaza] today includes 20 trucks that carry medicine, medical supplies, and a limited amount of food supplies (canned goods)," Hamas's media office said. Egyptian state TV showed trucks that have been waiting for days entering the border crossing area from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Reporting by Nidal Mughrabi, Writing by Adam Makary and Aidan LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Rafah border crossing point between Gaza and Egypt has opened, allowing first aid trucks to enter the besieged strip
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Rafah border crossing point between Gaza and Egypt has opened, allowing the first aid trucks to enter. The border crossing was opened following negotiations involving the US, Egypt, Israel and the UN. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Rafah border crossing point between Gaza and Egypt has opened, allowing the first aid trucks to enter the besieged strip on Saturday. Footage shows the convoy of 20 trucks entering from Egypt following a week of negotiations involving the US, Egypt, Israel, and the UN. UN aid trucks are expected to enter Gaza through the border on Monday, the UN spokesperson told CNN.

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Ronen Zvulun/Reuters A woman mourns over a dead man at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza City on October 18. Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Times/Redux Palestinians wait to cross into Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in Gaza on October 16. Yousef Masoud/The New York Times/Redux Smoke rises after Israeli strikes on the seaport of Gaza City on Tuesday, October 10. Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times/Redux Palestinians walk amid the rubble following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 10. Erik Marmor/AP Six-month-old Sama Alwadia is rescued from the rubble in Gaza City on October 9.

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The president also stressed the urgency of getting relief to Palestinian civilians in Gaza who lack food, water and medicine. Israel appeared to be getting closer to a full-scale invasion of Gaza, a densely populated enclave ruled by Hamas. The Israeli military has massed troops and equipment near the Gaza border. The command will come," Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told troops gathered at the Gaza border on Thursday. [1/8]Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Ashkelon, in southern Israel, October 19, 2023.

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Ricardo Pires, a spokesman for UNICEF, says his organization urgently needs access to Gaza to facilitate the movement of supplies and relief workers. In response, Israel sealed border crossings with Gaza as it began targeting Hamas positions. Pires says UNICEF currently has amassed supplies in Egypt that are ready for delivery into Gaza once the Rafah crossing – the sole border crossing with Egypt – reopens. Biden told reporters the U.S. plans to coordinate with the Egyptian government to repair the roads into Gaza. “Water supplies are reaching a life-threatening low across Gaza amidst the sustained blockade,” Slater says.

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Last week, Mr. DeSantis doubled down on his opposition to helping some of the nearly one million people contending with shortages of food, clean water and shelter in the region. The Never Back Down ad from this week spliced the clips from Ms. Haley with comments from Mr. DeSantis criticizing her in an NBC interview. Spokespeople for both Mr. DeSantis’s campaign and Never Back Down maintain that their critiques of Ms. Haley are accurate. But Ms. Haley took an aggressive stance against resettling Syrians in her state after the terror attacks in Paris that same year, citing gaps in intelligence that could make the vetting process difficult. Rick McConnell, a 70-year-old Air Force veteran who heard Mr. DeSantis speak, said he understood that Gazans needed food, water and medical supplies.

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☆ U.N. chief pushes to get aid into Gaza but process is slow
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Aidan Lewis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Earlier, the United States had said details of a deal to send aid through the Rafah crossing were still being hammered out. Before the outbreak of conflict, about 450 aid trucks were arriving there daily. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people depend on humanitarian aid. A U.N. official said more than 200 trucks of aid were ready to move from Sinai to Gaza. During previous conflicts, aid had been delivered to Gaza during humanitarian pauses through the Kerem Shalom crossing, which is controlled by Israel.

Persons: Antonio Guterres, Israel, Guterres, Jens Laerke, Michael Georgy, Angus MacSwan Organizations: United Nations, Hamas, Humanitarian Affairs, Thomson Locations: RAFAH, Egypt, Rafah, Palestinian, Gaza, Israel, Geneva, United States, Al Arish, Roads, Sinai

☆ Healthcare-staffing startup Nomad Health just slashed its workforce for the second time this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Healthcare staffing firm Nomad Health just cut its workforce for the second time this year, as high inflation continues to squeeze hospital budgets. Nomad Health, which connects nurses and other health professionals to open jobs, confirmed in an email to Insider that it announced a round of layoffs affecting its nonclinical workforce on October 3. Alexi Nazem Alexi NazemNomad Health cited similar factors when it slashed 17% of its workforce, or 119 employees, in February. Nomad Health also banked extra cash last year, raising $105 million in June 2022 at an undisclosed valuation. Do you work at Nomad Health?

Persons: Maquel Shaw, Alexi Nazem Alexi, Alexi Nazem, Forbes, he'd, Rebecca Torrence Organizations: Nomad, Nomad Health Locations: rtorrence@insider.com

GAZA, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip which was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians was hit overnight by an Israeli air strike, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and Palestinian health officials said. The Orthodox Church said in a statement: "The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem expresses its strongest condemnation of the Israeli air strike that has struck its church compound in the city of Gaza." [1/7]Women react at the Greek Orthodox Saint Porphyrius Church which was damaged by an Israeli strike, where Palestinians who fled their homes take shelter, in Gaza City, October 20, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri Acquire Licensing RightsGaza's 2.3 million population comprises an estimated 1,000 Christians, most of whom are Greek Orthodox. The Israeli military said its fighter jets had hit a nearby command and control centre that was used to carry out attacks against Israel.

Persons: Gaza's, Mohammed Al, Masri, Nidal al, Michael Georgy, Crispian Balmer, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Gaza's Hamas, Saint Porphyrius, REUTERS, IDF, Thomson Locations: GAZA, Gaza, Jerusalem, Gaza City, Israel

☆ Biden’s Rule of Engagement: Don’t
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Lauren Camera | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +14 min

Leaders of Egypt and Jordan and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called off a planned summit with President Joe Biden. “Don’t,” he said, warning Iran as well as the U.S.-designated terror group Hezbollah that runs Lebanon and any others from intensifying the crisis by escalating their involvement. But perhaps most effective of all, experts say, is the single word Biden continues to repeat: Don’t. “When the president says, ‘Don't,’ and then moves an aircraft carrier, that looks good. Middle East analysts go back to the point that Hezbollah and Iran likely don’t want to escalate the war either.

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On one side of the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza sit more than 100 trucks packed with desperately needed food, water and medical supplies. On the other wait more than 2 million Gazans now scraping by on dwindling stocks of basic human necessities. Officials and aid workers on Thursday were hammering out the logistics of opening the gates, saying that a U.N.-led deal had laid the groundwork to allow trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter Gaza from Egypt, offering the renewed promise of relief to the besieged enclave. Aid organizations were told that the crossing would open on Friday morning, according to an aid official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The deal, officials said, includes the U.N. flag being raised at the crossing and international observers inspecting aid trucks before they enter Gaza.

Persons: Egypt — Organizations: Israel, Hamas Locations: Egypt, Gaza, Gazan, Rafah

☆ Mo Salah: Liverpool and Egypt star calls for humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza ‘immediately’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Liverpool and Egypt star Mo Salah has called for humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza “immediately” and called on world leaders to help put an end to the fighting. What is clear now is humanitarian aid to Gaza must be allowed immediately. Steve Bardens/Getty ImagesOn Monday, the Egyptian Red Crescent, a charity that provides medical services and humanitarian aid, confirmed that Salah had made a donation to help its relief efforts in Gaza. “Thank you, Mohamed Salah, for his donation to support the people of the Gaza Strip,” the charity wrote on Facebook. Salah and Liverpool face Everton at home in the Merseyside Derby on Saturday.

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☆ Don’t Let Israel Become a Nation of Revenge - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Ayman Odeh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I have friends who were killed and who lost children in Hamas’s murderous attack on Oct. 7. Yet despite all this, I have also witnessed glimmers of the future we could have, made real by ordinary people — Jewish and Arab, Palestinian and Israeli — who have stepped up in the face of unspeakable tragedy. In Israel, much of the military had been apparently stationed in the West Bank to protect settlers. Those of us who are Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel are uniquely positioned to see through his bluster and warmongering to the failure he really is — truths that the past several days have laid bare. The only way we can fulfill our responsibility to the nation of our youngest ones — and to ourselves — is to recognize the nation of Palestine and the nation of Israel and to establish a State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel.

Persons: —, Netanyahu Organizations: West Bank, State Locations: Gaza, Israeli, Israel, Palestinian, Palestine

☆ Opinion | Biden’s Aid, and Pointed Advice, to Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Ron BoyerEugene, Ore.To the Editor:As an American Jew, I am horrified by President Biden’s response to Hamas’s horrific murder of Israelis on Oct. 7. By providing military aid to Israel, the U.S. government is fueling the Israeli government’s vastly disproportionate response, in which it has already killed more Palestinian civilians than Israeli civilians were killed by Hamas. To the Editor:As an American Israeli living in Israel with a son in the Israel Defense Forces, I feel that I must speak out. It is clear to Israelis that in carrying out these atrocities, Hamas was seeking to draw Israel into precisely the actions that Israel is now engaged in. The justification for those actions could be debated endlessly, but the world must know that Israel considers itself in existential peril.

Persons: “ Biden, Biden, Ron Boyer Eugene, Biden’s, Mr, Miriam Shakow Narberth, ”, “, Lea Brilmayer Branford, David Gilmore Holon Organizations: U.S, Israel, Hamas, Yale University, Israel Defense Forces Locations: American, Israel, U.S, Pa, Conn

Andreswd | E+ | Getty ImagesMedicare beneficiaries have until Dec. 7 to change their Medicare health and prescription drug coverage for the coming year through open annual enrollment. Starting in 2024, people who face high prescription drug costs will not have to pay anything out of pocket once they hit the catastrophic phase of their benefits, she noted, thanks to new prescription drug legislation. Notably, Medicare beneficiaries who take insulin currently do not have to pay more than $35 per month for covered prescriptions. There are other reasons why Medicare beneficiaries should pay attention to the annual enrollment period this year. Medicare open enrollment is when beneficiaries can shop around for health plans or prescription drug coverage that better meet their needs.

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☆ South Africa says it discussed aid with Hamas leader, denies reports of support
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Local publication News24 earlier reported a statement from Hamas that the group had received a call of support from South Africa's foreign minister. It said the Hamas statement did not name Pandor. South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor attends a press conference as BRICS foreign ministers meet in Cape Town, South Africa, June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Nic Bothma/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights"We do not have a bilateral relationship with Hamas... Support for the Palestinian struggle against occupation does not equate to support for Hamas," South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. South Africa has long been an advocate for peace in the region, likening the plight of Palestinians to its own under an apartheid regime that ended in 1994.

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☆ GLP-1 weight loss drugs are creating opportunities for these 2 stocks, investment advisor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Weizhen Tan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Developments surrounding the drugs, also popularly used for weight loss, have been disrupting anything from owners of dialysis centers to bariatric surgery providers and the food industry. But one investment advisor, Brian Krawez, president of Scharf Investments, says there are opportunities. "Many investors are concerned about the impacts of the GLP-1 drugs on a host of companies ranging from restaurants to consumer staples. Those mechanisms are the ones that help patients taking the drugs to lose weight and regulate their diabetes. They got roughly 35% market share, but a lot of people don't know the company," he said, adding that specialty pharmaceuticals — including the GLP-1 drugs —account for roughly 35% of the company's earnings.

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☆ Overwhelmed doctors treated Gaza hospital blast victims by performing surgery on floors and in hallways, mostly without anesthesia
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Joshua Zitser | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hundreds of people wounded in the Al-Ahli Hospital blast were rushed to Gaza's main hospital. Overwhelmed doctors performed surgeries on hospital floors, often without anesthesia, per AP. It's unclear who was behind the hospital blast, with Hamas blaming Israel and Israel pointing to a group in Gaza. AdvertisementAdvertisementOverwhelmed doctors treating victims of the explosion at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza resorted to performing surgery on hospital floors without anesthesia, according to the Associated Press. Due to the severe shortage of medical supplies and available space, doctors had no option but to perform critical surgeries on hospital floors and in hallways, AP reported.

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