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Ramadan is beginning, and even though there's a ceasefire,

Palestinians tell German media that people will starve under a new Israeli blockade.

We're surprised that this holy month, despite the ongoing siege for two years,

the situation has returned to last year's Ramadan when we were under a complete siege.

It's Monday, March 3rd, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBWR.

I'm Chris Bentley.

Today on the show, Trump continues his feud with the president of Ukraine, accusing him of preventing a deal to end the war there.

And European leaders' heads are spinning. What if actually America is switching sides? What if the transatlantic alliance is no

longer the primary alliance for Donald Trump in this conflict? Also, jet engines idling on the

tarmac create a lot of wind.

What if you could harness all that energy?

That's what Dallas Love Field is doing with small-scale wind turbines that help charge electric vehicles.

Frankly, we're running out of electricity, so if you can capture any little bit, it helps. But first, the latest from the Middle East. Israel has cut off aid to the

Gaza Strip to put pressure on Hamas to accept new terms of a ceasefire deal. The blockade was

condemned by the UN Secretary General, as well as the

ceasefire's mediators, Egypt and Qatar. Saudi Arabia described it as, quote, using aid as a tool

of extortion and collective punishment, and said it violates international law. The initial phase

of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas officially expired over the weekend.

So for an idea of where things might go from here, we called up Julian Borgier.

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