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Time of India
2 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Trump says many are starving in Gaza, vows to set up food centres
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday many people were starving in Gaza and suggested Israel could do more on humanitarian access, as Palestinians struggled to feed their children a day after Israel declared steps to improve the death toll from two years of war in Gaza nears 60,000, a growing number of people are dying from starvation and malnutrition, Gaza health authorities say, with images of starving children shocking the world and fuelling international criticism of Israel over sharply worsening starvation in Gaza as real, Trump's assessment put him at odds with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , who said on Sunday "there is no starvation in Gaza" and vowed to fight on against the Palestinian militant group Hamas - a statement he reposted on X on Netanyahu later on Monday described the situation in Gaza as "difficult", saying his country was working to ensure aid delivery to the besieged strip."Israel will continue to work with international agencies as well as the U.S. and European nations to ensure that large amounts of humanitarian aid flows into the Gaza Strip," Netanyahu said, according to a statement from his speaking during a visit to Scotland, said Israel has a lot of responsibility for aid flows, and that a lot of people could be saved. "You have a lot of starving people," he said."We're going to set up food centres," with no fences or boundaries to ease access, Trump said. The U.S. would work with other countries to provide more humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza, including food and sanitation, he said. White House spokesperson said additional details on the food centres would be "forthcoming."'WHEN YOU GO TO BED HUNGRY, YOU WAKE UP HUNGRY'On Monday, the Gaza health ministry said at least 14 people had died in the past 24 hours of starvation and malnutrition, bringing the war's death toll from hunger to 147, including 88 children, most in just the last few announced several measures over the weekend, including daily humanitarian pauses to fighting in three areas of Gaza, new safe corridors for aid convoys, and airdrops. The decision followed the collapse of ceasefire talks on Nabil from Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza described the struggle of trying to feed her three children. "When you go to bed hungry, you wake up hungry. We distract them with anything ... to make them calm down," she told Reuters."I call on the world, on those with merciful hearts, the compassionate, to look at us with compassion, to be kind to us, to stand with us until aid comes in and ensure it reaches us."Two Israeli defence officials said the international pressure prompted the new Israeli measures, as did the worsening conditions on the ground.U.N. agencies said a long-term and steady supply of aid was needed. The World Food Programme said 60 trucks of aid had been dispatched - short of target. Almost 470,000 people in Gaza are enduring famine-like conditions, with 90,000 women and children in need of specialist nutrition treatments, it said."Our target at the moment, every day is to get 100 trucks into Gaza," WFP Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, Samer AbdelJaber, told Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council , told Reuters the situation is catastrophic."At this time, children are dying every single day from starvation, from preventable disease. So time has run out."Netanyahu has denied any policy of starvation towards Gaza, saying aid supplies would be kept up whether Israel was negotiating a ceasefire or fighting.A spokesperson for COGAT, the Israeli military aid coordination agency, said Israel had not placed a time limit on the humanitarian pauses in its military operation, a day after U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher said Israel had decided "to support a one-week scale-up of aid"."We hope this pause will last much longer than a week, ultimately turning into a permanent ceasefire," Fletcher's spokesperson, Eri Kaneko, said on office did not immediately respond to a request for to last week, U.N. spokesperson Farhan Haq said, there had only been a "small uptick" in the amount of aid being transported into Gaza since Israel started the humanitarian SAYS HAMAS DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITHIn his statement on Sunday, Netanyahu said Israel would continue to fight until it achieved the release of remaining hostages held by Hamas and the destruction of its military and governing said Hamas had become difficult to deal with in recent days, but he was talking with Netanyahu about "various plans" to free hostages still held in the war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants attacked communities across the border in southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking another 251 hostage, according to Israeli Gaza health ministry said that 98 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the past 24 of the trucks that made it into Gaza were seized by desperate Palestinians, and some by armed looters, witnesses Hamas-run Gaza government said only 87 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Monday, with the majority of trucks looted due to what it described as "direct and systematic Israeli complicity"."Currently aid comes for the strong who can race ahead, who can push others and grab a box or a sack of flour. That chaos must be stopped and protection for those trucks must be allowed," said Emad, 58, who used to own a factory in Gaza WFP said it has 170,000 metric tons of food in the region, outside Gaza, which would be enough to feed the whole population for the next three months if it gets the clearance to bring into the said more than 120 truckloads of aid were distributed in Gaza on Sunday by the U.N. and international aid was expected on Monday. Qatar said it had sent 49 trucks that arrived in Egypt en route for Gaza. Jordan and the United Arab Emirates airdropped cut off aid to Gaza from the start of March in what it said was a means to pressure Hamas into giving up dozens of hostages it still holds, and reopened aid with new restrictions in May. Hamas accuses Israel of using hunger as a says it abides by international law but must prevent aid from being diverted by militants, and blames Hamas for the suffering of Gaza's people.
Deccan Herald
2 days ago
- Politics
- Deccan Herald
Trump says many are starving in Gaza, vows to set up food centres
Cairo/Geneva: US President Donald Trump said on Monday many people were starving in Gaza and suggested Israel could do more on humanitarian access, as Palestinians struggled to feed their children a day after Israel declared steps to improve the death toll from two years of war in Gaza nears 60,000, a growing number of people are dying from starvation and malnutrition, Gaza health authorities say, with images of starving children shocking the world and fuelling international criticism of Israel over sharply worsening starvation in Gaza as real, Trump's assessment put him at odds with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said on Sunday "there is no starvation in Gaza" and vowed to fight on against the Palestinian militant group Hamas - a statement he reposted on X on says US will work with Thailand and Cambodia, adds both 'want to settle'.Trump, speaking during a visit to Scotland, said Israel has a lot of responsibility for aid flows, and that a lot of people could be saved. "You have a lot of starving people," he said."We're going to set up food centres," with no fences or boundaries to ease access, Trump said. The US would work with other countries to provide more humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza, including food and sanitation, he Monday, the Gaza health ministry said at least 14 people had died in the past 24 hours of starvation and malnutrition, bringing the war's death toll from hunger to 147, including 88 children, most in just the last few announced several measures over the weekend, including daily humanitarian pauses to fighting in three areas of Gaza, new safe corridors for aid convoys, and airdrops. The decision followed the collapse of ceasefire talks on Nabil from Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza described the struggle of trying to feed her three children. "When you go to bed hungry, you wake up hungry. We distract them with anything ... to make them calm down," she told Reuters."I call on the world, on those with merciful hearts, the compassionate, to look at us with compassion, to be kind to us, to stand with us until aid comes in and ensure it reaches us."Two Israeli defence officials said the international pressure prompted the new Israeli measures, as did the worsening conditions on the ground.U.N. agencies said a long-term and steady supply of aid was needed. The World Food Programme said 60 trucks of aid had been dispatched - short of target. Almost 470,000 people in Gaza are enduring famine-like conditions, with 90,000 women and children in need of specialist nutrition treatments, it said."Our target at the moment, every day is to get 100 trucks into Gaza," WFP Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, Samer AbdelJaber, told Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, told Reuters the situation is catastrophic."At this time, children are dying every single day from starvation, from preventable disease. So time has run out."Netanyahu has denied any policy of starvation towards Gaza, saying aid supplies would be kept up whether Israel was negotiating a ceasefire or fighting.A COGAT spokesperson said Israel had not placed a time limit on the humanitarian pauses in its military operation, a day after UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said Israel had decided 'to support a one-week scale-up of aid"."We hope this pause will last much longer than a week, ultimately turning into a permanent ceasefire,' Fletcher's spokesperson, Eri Kaneko, said on office did not immediately respond to a request for says Hamas difficult to deal withIn his statement on Sunday, Netanyahu said Israel would continue to fight till achieving the release of remaining hostages held by Hamas and the destruction of its military and governing said Hamas had become difficult to deal with in recent days, but he was talking with Netanyahu about "various plans" to free hostages still held in the war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants attacked communities across the border in southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking another 251 hostage, according to Israeli Gaza health ministry said that 98 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the past 24 of the trucks that made it into Gaza were seized by desperate Palestinians, and some by armed looters, witnesses said."Currently aid comes for the strong who can race ahead, who can push others and grab a box or a sack of flour. That chaos must be stopped and protection for those trucks must be allowed," said Emad, 58, who used to own a factory in Gaza WFP said it has 170,000 metric tons of food in the region, outside Gaza, which would be enough to feed the whole population for the next three months if it gets the clearance to bring into the said more than 120 truckloads of aid were distributed in Gaza on Sunday by the U.N. and international aid was expected on Monday. Qatar said it had sent 49 trucks that arrived in Egypt en route for Gaza. Jordan and the United Arab Emirates airdropped cut off aid to Gaza from the start of March in what it said was a means to pressure Hamas into giving up dozens of hostages it still holds, and reopened aid with new restrictions in May. Hamas accuses Israel of using hunger as a says it abides by international law but must prevent aid from being diverted by militants, and blames Hamas for the suffering of Gaza's people.
Time of India
5 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Thailand favours direct talks to resolve Cambodia conflict
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel BANGKOK: Thailand favours bilateral negotiation rather than third-party mediation to resolve its military conflict with Cambodia, two Thai officials said on Friday, as fighting along their disputed border continued border tensions between Thailand and Cambodia have flared into open hostilities at multiple locations along the frontline in the heaviest fighting between the Southeast Asian neighbours in over a decade. There were exchanges of artillery for a second straight day on United States, China and Malaysia, which is the current chair of the ASEAN regional bloc , have offered to facilitate dialogue but Bangkok is seeking a bilateral solution to the conflict, Thai foreign ministry spokesperson Nikorndej Balankura told Reuters."I don't think we need any mediation from a third country yet," Nikorndej said in an Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim , the chair ASEAN, of which both Thailand and Cambodia are members, said on Thursday he had spoken to both countries' leaders and urged them to find a peaceful resolution."We appreciate (the offer) and we don't want to rule out having a third country to help, but right now we believe that bilateral mechanisms have not been exhausted," Thai vice minister for foreign affairs Russ Jalichandra told Prime Minister Hun Manet said in a social media post late on Friday that both Thailand and Cambodia had initially agreed to a ceasefire proposal from Anwar a day earlier, but Thailand later reversed its two countries accuse each other of starting the conflict early on Thursday along a border where sovereignty has been disputed for more than a century."We stand by our position that bilateral mechanism is the best way out, this is a confrontation between the two countries," Nikorndej said, adding that the Cambodian side must stop violence along the border first.
Observer
7 days ago
- Science
- Observer
Alexandria is most at risk along the Mediterranean Basin
From her ninth-floor balcony over Alexandria's seafront, Eman Mabrouk looked down at the strip of sand that used to be the wide beach where she played as a child. "The picture is completely different now," she said. The sea has crept closer, the concrete barriers have grown longer, and the buildings around her have cracked and shifted. Every year, 40 of them collapse across Egypt's second city, up from one on average a decade ago, a study shows. The storied settlement that survived everything from bombardment by the British in the 1880s to attacks by crusaders in the 1160s is succumbing to a subtler foe infiltrating its foundations. The warming waters of the Mediterranean are rising, part of a global phenomenon driven by climate change. In Alexandria, that is leading to coastal erosion and sending saltwater seeping through the sandy substrate, undermining buildings from below, researchers say. "This is why we see the buildings in Alexandria being eroded from the bottom up," said Essam Heggy, a water scientist at the University of Southern California who co-wrote the study published in February describing a growing crisis in Alexandria and along the whole coast. The combination of continuous seawater rises, ground subsidence, and coastal erosion means Alexandria's coastline has receded on average 3.5 metres a year over the last 20 years, he told Reuters."For many people who see that climate change is something that will happen in the future and we don't need to worry about it, it's happening right now, right here," Heggy said. The situation is alarming enough when set out in the report - "Soaring Building Collapses in Southern Mediterranean Coasts" in the journal "Earth's Future". For Mabrouk, 50, it has been part of day-to-day life for years. She had to leave her last apartment when the building started moving."It eventually got slanted. I mean, after two years, we were all ... leaning," she told Reuters. "If you put something on the table, you would feel like it was rolling. "BARRIERS, BULLDOZERS, CRACKS Egypt's government has acknowledged the problem and promised action. Submerged breakwaters reduce coastal wave action, and truckloads of sand replenish stripped beaches. Nine concrete sea barriers have been set up "to protect the delta and Alexandria from the impact of rising sea waves," Alexandria's governor, Ahmed Khaled Hassan, said. The barriers stretch out to sea, piles of striking geometric shapes, their clear curves and lines standing out against the crumbling, flaking apartment blocks on the land. Authorities are trying to get in ahead of the collapses by demolishing buildings at risk. Around 7,500 were marked for destruction, and 55,000 new housing units will be built, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told a crowd as he stood on one of the concrete barriers on July 14."There isn't a day that passes without a partial or complete collapse of at least one building that already had a demolition order," Madbouly said. Some are hopeful the measures can make a difference."There are no dangers now ... They have made their calculations," coffee shop owner Shady Mostafa said as he watched builders working on one of the barriers. Others are less sure. Alexandria's 70-km (45-mile) long coastal zone was marked down as the most vulnerable in the whole Mediterranean basin in the February report. Around 2% of the city's housing stock - or about 7,000 buildings - were probably unsafe, it added. Every day, more people are pouring into the city - Alexandria's population has nearly doubled to about 5.8 million in the last 25 years, swollen by workers and tourists, according to Egypt's statistics agency CAPMAS. Property prices keep going up, despite all the risks, trackers levels are rising across the world, but they are rising faster in the Mediterranean than in many other bodies of water, partly because the relative shallowness of its sea basin means it is warming up faster. The causes may be global, but the impacts are local, said 26-year-old Alexandria resident Ahmed al-Ashry."There's a change in the buildings, there's a change in the streets," he told Reuters. "Now and then, we try to renovate the buildings, and in less than a month, the renovations start to fall apart. Our neighbours have started saying the same thing: that cracks have started to appear."
Al Etihad
01-07-2025
- Sport
- Al Etihad
Wimbledon's AI judges receive mixed reviews from players and fans
2 July 2025 00:26 LONDON (Reuters) The All England Club's decision to replace line judges with artificial intelligence technology at Wimbledon has received mixed reviews from players and fans week has marked the first time the tournament has been played without meticulously dressed judges determining whether the ball is in or 300 line judges have been cut to 80 who are instead assisting chair umpires and interceding should the latest Hawk-Eye Electronic Line Calling (ELC) system, system uses AI to analyse footage from up to 18 cameras to track the progress of the ball and decide if it is in or Bolton, the Chief Executive of the All England Club, said the new system was brought in to ensure the calls were accurate and not to cut costs."It's not a money-saving exercise; it's about evolving the tournament and making sure that we're providing the most effective possible line calling,' she number one Jannik Sinner told a press conference after his victory over fellow Italian and close friend Luca Nardi: "As tennis tries to get better for the umpire it's very difficult to see, especially when first serves are over 200km per hour, so it's very difficult to see in a small space if they're in or out, so for sure the technology helps, especially here on grass.'However, other players found problems with the technology. On Monday, China's Yuan Yue complained that the system was too quiet for her to hear its were small protests outside the grounds against the technology. At the same time, some fans expressed sadness about the absence of line judges - a tradition that goes back to the 1870s - and the drama that often accompanies a player's challenge."Tennis is a physical sport, but it's also a mental game and at a professional level I think that idea of challenging a call is part of the game,' Jess from Oxford told Reuters."As a spectator when they review the footage and everybody is clapping, and it's the whole thing that this decision comes out and there's uproar or whatever."It's sad that part of the atmosphere is gone, because you can't challenge the calls now. It's AI, it's resolute.'Ivan from Northern Ireland raised concerns that the technology may have some teething problems."It was strange not having a line judge. We watched a game on Court Two and a couple of times a ball from where we were sitting, which was close to the line, was out."The player pointed to it and stopped and looked to the umpire, and he just ignored it, and the player accepted it. But I expected to see the replay. "There were a couple of other times when it was out and obviously in and the replay came up. So the replays were not consistent.'
