2025-05-21
25 分钟The Economist Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Bloor.
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First up though.
Israel says it lifted its 11-week blockade of Gaza allowing food and medical aid into the territory.
But the United Nations has found that none of that aid is being distributed.
Today,
one of our teams waited several hours for the Israeli green light to access the Kareem Shalom area and collect the nutrition supplies.
Unfortunately, they were not able to bring those supplies into our warehouse.
Yesterday,
the UN suggested 14,000 babies could die within 48 hours if aid did not reach them.
But later walked back that number.
How could it be calculated anyway?
It's been a year and a half of war.
Gaza is almost entirely closed off to journalists and international observers.