Brian Lear on WNYC now Now an update on conditions in Gaza and the US and UN politics of

balancing Israel's legitimate war aims and protecting civilians. The UN has another version of a ceasefire resolution

in front of it today after the US vetoed won last Friday. The Biden

administration is still pushing Congress for more funding for Israel's war effort, but also now

bypassing Congress for what Biden considers an emergency sale of ammunition and

other supplies. And they're doing those things even as Secretary of State Anthony Blinken

representing the US of course went on CNN on Sunday to highlight the gap

between what Israel says it intends to do and the actual results

on protecting civilians in Gaza from the fighting

and allowing humanitarian relief to get in.

Here's Blinking.

But now what's critical is this,

even as Israel has taken additional steps, for example,

to designate safe areas in the south,

to focus on neighborhoods, not entire cities in terms of evacuating them.

What we're not seeing sufficiently is a couple of things.

One, making sure that the humanitarian operators who were there,

starting with the United Nations, performing

heroically, that there are de-confliction times, places, and routes so that the

humanitarian can bring the assistance that's getting into Gaza to the people who need it.

Similarly, we need to see the same kind of de-confliction, time, pauses, designated routes,

plural, not just one, and clarity of communication so that people know when it is safe

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