It's the Bayon Lair show on WNYC, good morning again everyone.

Here's a clip of President Biden talking about one of the things that he accomplished

on his Israel trip this week.

It was getting both Israel and Egypt to agree to allow humanitarian aid supplies to be

trucked into Gaza from across its southern border with Egypt.

Up to 20 trucks.

This has been a very blunt negotiation I've had.

So we want to get as many of the trucks out as possible.

There's, I guess, 150 or something there.

Not all of them will go.

The first tranche.

If there's a second tranche, see how it goes.

President Biden yesterday, we will carry his Oval Office address on the Middle East schedule

for eight o'clock tonight.

We'll have that on all our frequencies or live stream at wnyc.org eight o'clock tonight.

It's a little weird to my eye that they named a specific number of trucks.

20 would seem small compared to what the need might be for food, water, medicine,

and more for two million people in a very active war zone.

But I guess 20 is a start and the opening of the border to that at all is a start.

Also, the news always reports the number of people killed on each side, which matters, of course.

But left out sometimes is the number of people injured, people who need medical attention.

Estimates reported by ABC News on Tuesday were of 3,400 Israelis injured in the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas.

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