Monday briefing
Without help, more Gazan children will die, the UN has warned
The UN warned that deaths among children and infants in Gaza were likely to “rapidly increase” if food and medical supplies were not sent immediately, days after an aid delivery to the enclave turned disaster.
The UN has warned that many Gazans are on the brink of famine, and some aid agencies have halted distribution in northern Gaza because of the risks there.
The convoy that arrived in Gaza City on Thursday ended in destruction. More than a hundred Palestinians were killed as thousands gathered around trucks carrying food and supplies, Gaza health officials said. The stories about what happened varied widely. The Israeli military said many of the victims had been trampled, although it acknowledged that troops opened fire after feeling threatened by the crowds. The Gaza Health Ministry called the event a “massacre” by Israeli forces.
Two more aid convoys organized by the Israeli government and Palestinian businessmen entered Gaza this weekend. One of the convoys was largely emptied by desperate Gazans before reaching Gaza City. The US has also started dropping aid, which some aid experts say has been insufficient.
The Kremlin is trying to minimize Navalny’s influence
Moscow is trying to suppress information about Aleksei Navalny, both in life and in death.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not said a word publicly about Navalny, the opposition leader who died two weeks ago in an Arctic prison. Russian state television was almost silent for a while. And on Friday, as thousands of people gathered in Moscow for Navalny’s funeral, state news ignored it altogether.
The approach is not new. For years, Putin refused to speak Navalny’s name, state television barely mentioned him and authorities barred him from running in the 2018 elections.
But even without the power of television, Navalny managed to make a name for himself in Russia through the Internet, which remained the way millions of Russians followed news of his death and funeral. His online presence undermined the Kremlin’s suggestions of his irrelevance, even as Russia’s coercive apparatus pursued him with increasing ferocity.
Even Biden’s voters said he was “too old.”
A striking 61 percent of voters who supported Joe Biden in 2020 now believe he is “simply too old” to effectively lead the United States, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Siena College. Questions about the president’s age, which span generations, gender, race and education, pose an increasing threat to his re-election bid.
Voters have not expressed the same concerns about Donald Trump, who at 77 is only four years younger than Biden. Their likely rematch would make them the oldest presidential candidates in history.
The small island of Alderney feels like a peaceful retreat in the English Channel. But behind many of the island’s quiet corners lie memories of the Second World War.
The Nazis ran four camps on Alderney during the war, and it is not clear how many people died there. A report due this spring aims to provide answers, but not everyone studying Alderney’s past believes this will be the case.
Lives lived: Iris Apfel’s brash bohemian style turned the fashion world upside down and inspired an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She died at the age of 102.
Activism helps a small football club attract an audience
Jerseys for the small Irish football team, the Bohemians, are sold everywhere, but that is not because of a star player or the great success of the team. Instead, many fans are drawn to the Bohemians because of the team’s politics.
In a scrupulously apolitical sport, the Bohemians have become a commercial success by leaning unapologetically to the left. The team’s embrace of activism has captured the hearts and minds of a group of fans around the world, scattered by geography but united by common priorities.
Cook: Chashu is a Japanese adaptation of char siu, or Chinese roast pork, usually served atop a bowl of steaming Windows.
To swell: Trousers are getting wider again.
Current: The documentary “Jodorowsky’s Dune” details the “Dune” adaptation that never happened.
Read: “The Hunter” – Tana French’s new thriller, the sequel to “The Searcher” – follows a former Chicago police officer who settles in a remote village in western Ireland.