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Hello, an episode of Two Halves today.
In the second half, we'll catch up with Alex Forsyth,
because there's actually quite a lot of politics stories rumbling around today,
even though Parliament is on recess.
So politics is taking a bit of a break, except it isn't.
And then the first half,
we're going to catch up with Lisa Doucette to talk about the humanitarian situation in Gaza,
and particularly this new setup that has been built by the Israelis and the Americans and some private companies to deliver aid to people in Gaza,
which is provocative.
lots of controversy.
So those are the two things you'll get on this episode of Newscast.
Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio.
And we're going to first of all talk about the delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
And there's a few reasons for that.
Number one, there is a new setup for doing that,
where it is being funneled through private companies.
This follows an 11-week blockade on the delivery of any humanitarian aid to Gaza by the Israeli government.
And that's proving to be quite controversial.
And second of all,