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Israel says it's allowing 50 truckloads of food, water, and medical supplies as well as shelter equipment into northern Gaza. It comes after the

U.S. threatened to cut military aid to Israel unless it boosts aid to Gaza.

The Bureau's Daniel Lestron reports from Tel Aviv.

It's a sign that Israel is slightly easing its blockade of northern Gaza.

After UN aid agencies said Israel was blocking food and aid from reaching the area

for the past two weeks during intensified shelling airstrikes and armed clashes.

A top UN aid official for Palestinians in Gaza said Israel was leaving civilians with no choice

but to flee the area or starve.

The U.S. Secret of state and defense warned Israel this week that the U.S. could cut off military

aid to Israel unless it increases aid to Gaza over the next month.

The U.S. is demanding at least 350 truckloads of aid to Gaza a day.

Daniel Estrin and PR News, Tel Aviv.

Both Vice President Kamilah Harris and former President Donald Trump have proposed increasing the nation's housing supply by building homes on federal lands.

As NPR's Ben Giles reports the ideas attractive in southwestern states like Arizona, roughly 40% of land is federally owned.

Trump has been more vocal about the idea.

He recently raised the issue at a rally in Tucson, Arizona.

So many people are asking me to do this.

We will open up new tracks of federal land for large-scale housing construction so that we can

get housing on the market.

But Brett Theatus, with the Urban Urban Institute says there are limitations to what federally owned land is attractive to develop.

The value of land is really the value of proximity to things that people want.

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