| At least 56 Palestinians died of starvation in Gaza this month, Gaza’s health ministry said. Saher Alghorra for The New York Times |
Trump on Gaza: ‘We have to get the kids fed’
President Trump said yesterday that there was “real starvation” in Gaza, disagreeing with a recent assertion by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that the territory had sufficient food.
“That’s real starvation stuff, I see it, and you can’t fake that,” Trump said while speaking to reporters in Scotland alongside Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer. “We have to get the kids fed.”
Trump’s comments were a notable turn on Gaza. He criticized as ineffective the current aid distribution system and said he wanted to create more food sites, adding that Britain would assist in the effort.
International agencies, experts and doctors say that starvation is sweeping across the territory amid restrictions on aid imposed by Israel for months. To date, Trump has appeared wary of using American power to secure aid for the Palestinians in Gaza and has largely blamed Hamas for stealing food. As recently as Sunday, the president said that the crisis was “not a U.S. problem, it’s an international problem.”
More on Gaza:
| Israel has devastated the enclave but achieved few, if any, goals since a cease-fire ended in March, our Jerusalem bureau chief writes.A growing number of Israelis are speaking out against what they describe as atrocities in Gaza that are being carried out in their name by their government.Two of Israel’s best-known civil rights groups, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights — said that Israel was committing genocide in the territory. |
Is the U.S.-E.U. trade deal good for Europe?
Many details have yet to be nailed down in the trade deal between the U.S. and the E.U., but the reactions have ranged from somewhat positive to blatantly critical. Germany’s chancellor gave cautious support, while France’s prime minister said that the agreement represented “a dark day.”
The new pact will be huge — the U.S. and the 27-nation bloc trade nearly $2 trillion in goods and services per year. But it’s premature to predict its potential impact, my colleague Jeanna Smialek writes. Some specifics, like the list of E.U. products exempt from the 15 percent tariff, have not been settled. But drugmakers, which make some of their blockbusters in Europe, like Botox and weight loss drugs like Ozempic, stand to take a hit worth billions. That could lead to higher drug prices and insurance premiums for Americans.
The deal certainly won’t help Europe’s economy, but it will keep Trump engaged in the foreign policy issues that have preoccupied many European leaders, like the war in Ukraine, my colleague Jim Tankersley writes.
| New York City police officers responding to the shooting in Midtown Manhattan yesterday. Dakota Santiago for The New York Times |
A deadly shooting in Midtown Manhattan
A police officer and three other people were killed yesterday by a man who opened fire with an AR-15-style rifle in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper as the workday was ending, officials said. A fifth person was critically wounded.
The gunman died after shooting himself in the chest, New York City’s police commissioner said. The police believe that he acted alone. This is a developing story, and we have live updates here.
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| MORNING READ |
The narrow streets of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital, are choked with buses, motorbikes, small trucks and taxis, all of which make getting around an eye-stinging ordeal. But a shift to a new kind of engine has started to clean the air.
Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal. Five years ago, that number was essentially zero. E.V.s are moving into Nepal faster than almost anywhere else.
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‘Mankeeping’ is hard work
The term “mankeeping” describes the work women do to meet the social and emotional needs of the men in their lives, from supporting them through daily challenges and inner turmoil to encouraging them to meet up with their friends.
As male social circles shrink, women have become unofficial therapists, researchers have found.
It is one symptom of the broader problem of male social disconnection, leaving women to become “a central — if not the central — piece of a man’s social support system,” said Angelica Puzio Ferrara, the postdoctoral fellow who coined the term. Read more.
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