Gaza’s food crisis
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Five months into the Israel-Hamas war, the United Nations is warning of “imminent famine” in northern Gaza. Guest host Samantha Fields discusses the challenge of getting food aid delivered to the region. Plus, the nation’s largest employer is considering pay transparency laws. Then, we’ll smile about cherry blossoms and the upcoming solar eclipse.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
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- “UN says famine is ‘imminent’ in northern Gaza as Israel launches another raid on main hospital” from The Associated Press
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- “The first ship to use a new sea route delivers aid to Gaza, Israeli military says” from The Associated Press
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- Data on Gaza Strip Acute Food Insecurity from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
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- “Senators Urge Biden to Stop Arming Israel, Citing Violation of U.S. Aid Law” from The New York Times
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- A Snapshot of Government-wide Contracting for FY 2021 from the U.S. Government Accountability Office
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- “What Constituent Correspondence Reveals About Voter Sentiment” from FiscalNote
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- “Commentary: Eclipsenomics: April’s solar eclipse will be the most profitable 22 minutes in Texas history” from San Antonio Express-News
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- #BloomCam from the Trust for the National Mall
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- Live: Iconic cherry trees begin to blossom in Washington D.C. from The Associated Press
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| 0:39.1 | make today make sense. Kai is out today because it's a Monday and he fled like many of us one and two |
| 0:45.5 | when we walk up this morning. Anyway, but joining me today is someone who showed up for the |
| 0:49.8 | Monday, the wonderful Samantha Fields. Hey Kimberly, it is great to be back with you and thank you all for joining us on this Monday, March 18th. |
| 0:58.0 | Yes, today we are going to do some news and then some smiles. Let's first start with the news. |
| 1:06.0 | What caught your attention today? |
| 1:07.6 | Well I am sorry to start this Monday on kind of a difficult note but the headline I saw this morning |
| 1:15.0 | that I haven't been able to get out of my head is that the UN World Food |
| 1:18.2 | Program and other international organizations said today that famine is imminent in Gaza. |
| 1:23.0 | Now we've all known for a while that aid was a very difficult situation. |
| 1:28.0 | Getting aid into Gaza has been very challenging for a long time now. |
| 1:31.0 | Food has become an increasingly huge issue there but now the |
| 1:36.5 | World Food Program and others are saying no one in Gaza is getting enough to eat and |
| 1:40.9 | that in northern Gaza more than 70% of people are already |
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