The Intelligence: Gaza’s ever-graver crisis
The Intelligence from The Economist
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A tentative aid deal in Gaza is just a sliver of what is needed; hunger and disease may well claim more Palestinian lives this year than the military campaign will. New research suggests American places worst-hit by the opioid epidemic are undergoing a rightward political shift (11:45). And why Britain, renowned for its facility with statistics, might end its decadal census (17:19).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:04.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:15.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. The ravages of America's opioid epidemic are by now well known. |
| 0:29.0 | Addiction, crime, what have become called deaths of despair. |
| 0:33.0 | We report on a new study that suggests one long-run outcome of the crisis |
| 0:37.0 | might also be an effect on voting preferences. |
| 0:41.0 | And Britain has historically been a pioneer in the business of national statistics. |
| 0:47.0 | So why is its Decadal Census which has been going for 180 years, possibly heading for the job. But first. |
| 1:09.0 | Last night, Israel's prime minister biniman Nanyahahu and Bas naim a Hamas leader confirmed a deal for medicines |
| 1:15.9 | to be delivered to Israelis held captive by Hamas in Gaza. |
| 1:20.0 | In return, Israel will allow more aid to enter the Gaza Strip via Egypt. |
| 1:25.1 | The help has never been needed more, with shortages leading to hunger and desperation. Earlier this week, aid trucks reaching the beach in Gaza City were met with a huge crowd of mostly young men racing to take what food they could. |
| 1:44.0 | Filming the scene, this man says everyone is focused on getting a bag of flour to feed his family. |
| 1:54.0 | Each is ready to die for it. |
| 1:57.0 | A few deliveries get so far north in Gaza. Before the war, |
| 2:07.0 | hundreds of lorries delivered goods to Gaza every day. Israeli restrictions |
| 2:11.0 | have now slashed that number, meaning prices are skyrocketing. |
| 2:15.0 | A Palestinian mother at an aid site in the south of Gaza says she can't afford the basics. |
| 2:23.0 | The bag of flour costs 200 sheke. |
| 2:28.0 | Bag of flour costs 200 shekels, $53. |
| 2:31.0 | It's unaffordable, so she says she depends on aid. |
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