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Thursday briefing: Where is the aid to Gaza?

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The UN said it had enough food at or near the Gaza border to feed its 2.2 million people. Still, as many as 1.1 million people could face deadly levels of hunger by mid-July.

Emergency workers say they face challenges at every point of the delivery processthrough Israel’s security checkpoints into an active war zone.

Ground delivery is the most efficient and cost-effective route, experts say. But only two access points are regularly open, and both are in the south. Trucks loaded into warehouses in Egypt face multiple security checks, travel dozens of kilometers and make multiple stops, which can take three weeks.

Aid agencies have largely halted deliveries to northern Gaza, citing Israeli restrictions, security concerns and poor road conditions.

Military operations can hinder deliveries, and convoys are often confronted with violence. The graph above shows places where death and destruction have plagued relief efforts.

UNRWA and US officials have said it is extremely difficult to distribute aid without the help of police escorts, and that the security they provide is needed to protect convoys from swarms of people. Israel has attacked Palestinian officers escorting UN aid convoys. The absence of security officers has allowed organized criminal gangs to steal aid or attack convoys.

Al Shifa: Israel raid on Gaza’s largest hospital entered a third day. Palestinian civilians have been hardest hit by the lawlessness in the enclave.

The Biden administration has issued one the most important climate regulation in US history yesterday. The rules aim to ensure that most new passenger cars and light trucks sold there will be fully electric or hybrid by 2032.

According to the US environmental regulator, the rules would gradually tighten limits on exhaust pollution, eliminating more than seven billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over the next 30 years. That would be the equivalent of removing all greenhouse gases generated by the US for a year

Politics: Electric vehicles are at the center of President Biden’s efforts to cut U.S. emissions in half by the end of this decade. But Donald Trump has tried to weaponize EVs during the presidential campaign with false claims about them.

For some foreign expats, Hong Kong has lost its appeal since Beijing took a heavier hand in its governance. When the city tried to lure global professionals with a “top talent” visa, 95 percent of applicants were mainland Chinese looking for better jobs and greater freedom.

Mood: faces of Hong Kong a deep pessimism – the economy is struggling, but the pro-Beijing government has focused on national security.

That’s the point, the artist’s lawyer argued: the work is necessarily discriminatory. By denying men access to the installation, they were still able to experience it, albeit in a different way.

Lives lived: David Breashears risked death on the slopes of the world’s highest mountain to produce “Everest,” the highest-grossing IMAX documentary of all time. He died at the age of 68.

  • Hair inspiration: Wet waves and curly mullets were some of the best hairstyles during the past fashion weeks.

  • Cruise ships: Many have done that unexpected featuressuch as prison cells and morgues.

  • The Abel Prize: A French mathematician earned mathematics’s highest honor for his advances in understanding randomness in the universe.

The ‘3 Body Problem’, based on the science fiction trilogy ‘Remembrance of Earth’s Past’ by Chinese author Liu Cixin, coming to Netflix. The sweeping space invasion saga begins in 1960s China, during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, and involves a superior alien race that has built a fanatical cult-like following on Earth.

The first season, adapted by the duo behind ‘Game of Thrones’ and Alexander Woo (‘True Blood’), arrives today. It is a feat of engineering and compression, writes our critic. The show adapts Liu’s inventions and physics explainers with visual grandeur, suspense and wow moments.

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