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Israel is barring 37 more aid organizations from operating in Gaza, including internationally

recognized groups that have been on the ground for decades, like Doctors Without Borders.

NPR's Aibatrowi reports Israel says these aid groups failed to meet security standards.

Israel's decision revokes the permits of groups like Oxfam, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Mercy Corps, and Doctors Without Borders or MSF.

These aid groups work respectively on issues related to water and desalination, tents and shelter supplies, food distribution, and health care.

And they have also documented in detail. Israel's war in Gaza,

criticizing the breadth of destruction and killing by Israeli forces, while also providing firsthand

accounts from Gaza at a time when international media remains banned. Humanity and inclusion,

which handles unexploded bombs left by the military, is also among the banned groups now.

Israel says staff of some groups were involved in terrorist activity

and that the 37 aid groups did not meet security and transparency requirements.

MSF says this prevents organizations from providing essential services to people in both Gaza and the West Bank.

Ayabatrawi, NPR News, Dubai.

Cases of the flu are surging in the United States.

That's according to new data from the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention. NPR's Gabriela Emmanuel has more. The latest data comes from the period

before people gathered for Christmas. It shows a steep increase in cases and more than 19,000 people

were hospitalized for flu in that one week, almost twice as many as the previous week.

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