Elizabeth Warren

Senator from Massachusetts
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Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race on March 5, 2020. This page is no longer being updated.
Warren is campaigning on the promise she will push sweeping changes that address economic inequality and root out corruption. The former Harvard law professor was a prominent voice for stricter oversight following the 2008 financial crisis before being elected to the US Senate in 2012.
University of Houston B.S., 1970; Rutgers University, J.D., 1976
June 22, 1949
Bruce Mann; divorced from Jim Warren
Methodist
Amelia, Alexander (with Jim Warren)
Professor, Harvard Law School, 1995-2012;
Visiting professor, Harvard Law School, 1992-1993;
Law professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1987-1995;
Professor of law, University of Texas Law School in Austin, 1983-1987;
Assistant and later associate professor at the University of Houston Law Center, 1978-1983;
Law lecturer at Rutgers School of Law, 1977-1978;
Speech pathologist at a New Jersey elementary school, early 1970s

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Jon Donenberg, top Elizabeth Warren aide, to join Biden's National Economic Council
Updated 10:30 AM ET, Mon Oct 23, 2023
Jon Donenberg -- a key architect of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's signature policy initiatives including her plan to cancel student loan debt -- will join President Joe Biden's National Economic Council as a deputy director, sources told CNN. Donenberg is poised to enter the top ranks of Biden's economic team one year ahead of the 2024 election, as the administration is pushing to sell its record on the country's post-pandemic economic turnaround and boost the public's grim economic outlook. The move also comes as the White House has been focused on a suite of executive actions aimed at cutting costs for lower-income and middle-class Americans, such as cracking down on so-called "junk fees" and finding ways to cancel student loan debt after the Supreme Court struck down Biden's initial plan. Currently Warren's chief of staff, Donenberg is set to start at the NEC early next month. He replaces Bharat Ramamurti, who left the administration earlier this year, and is expected to take over key issues that made up Ramamurti's portfolio including student debt relief, financial regulations, economic competition and technology policy, sources said. "What he's always brought to the policy-making process is both very data-driven but also very much thinking about how we can create an economy that works with everyone," Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo, who has known Donenberg for nearly two decades, told CNN in an interview. Adeyemo said he expects Donenberg to bring a "degree of creativity" to the job -- much needed, he said, as the administration now works to implement some of the hallmark pieces of legislation that Biden signed into law in his first term, such as a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package and a sweeping climate, health care and tax bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act. The administration is also focused on continuing to cancel student loan debt after it suffered a disappointing setback earlier this year when the Supreme Court struck down Biden's signature loan forgiveness program. Donenberg has worked for Warren since her first Senate campaign in Massachusetts in 2012 and is known to be among the senator's closest confidantes. A Capitol Hill veteran, he also previously worked for former Rep. Henry Waxman and Sen. Richard Blumenthal. Donenberg joins a sizable contingent of Warren alums and mentees who have taken on powerful economic policy-making roles in the Biden administration so far. That group includes Adeyemo, who worked with Warren to establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Ramamurti, who was a policy aide in Warren's 2020 campaign; and Rohit Chopra, the current director of the CFPB. "Jon is a superstar -- and one of the nation's foremost experts on the fight for an economy that works not just for some of our families, but for all of them," Warren said in a statement to CNN. "His unique combination of technical, legal, and economic skills and judgment will make him an invaluable asset to the president." In an interview with CNN in 2019, Donenberg described Warren's career as having been driven by the search for an answer to one question: "What is going wrong with America's middle-class families?" "Why are people working harder than they've ever worked before and not seeing raises and seeing their expenses go up? Why is their debt increasing? Why do they feel like opportunity for their kids is slipping away?" Donenberg said at the time. Answers to some of those very questions may prove to be central to what ultimately shapes up to be Biden's economic legacy. In recent months, Biden's top advisers have expressed optimism about several major economic trends -- key among them, slowing inflation and a robust jobs growth. But public sentiment has yet to catch up, with polling continuing to show stubborn pessimism about the economy despite a string of positive economic news. Advisers acknowledge that more time is needed for Americans to move past the trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic and historic-high inflation. "Jon brings a breadth of experience and a steadfast commitment to building an economy from the bottom up and middle out," said NEC Director Lael Brainard. "His previous work on competition, consumer protection, and financial regulation makes him well equipped for this role."
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STANCES ON THE ISSUES

climate crisis
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A backer of the Green New Deal, the broad plan to address renewable-energy infrastructure and climate change proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Warren has set out one of the most detailed proposals for making it happen. In June 2019, she introduced a suite of industrial proposals with names like the “Green Apollo Program” and “Green Marshall Plan.” Her Green Industrial Mobilization is the most ambitious – and expensive, with a $1.5 trillion price tag over 10 years – for spending on “American-made clean, renewable, and emission-free energy products for federal, state, and local use, and for export.” The “Green Apollo” plan would invest in scientific innovation and the “Green Marshall Plan” would facilitate the sales of new green technologies to foreign markets. In September 2019, Warren announced she would adopt the climate change proposals championed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who bowed out of his climate change-focused candidacy in August 2019. That includes a 10-year plan for moving to 100% clean energy and emissions-free vehicles, as well as zero-carbon pollution from all new commercial and residential buildings by 2028. Warren says achieving those goals would take another $1 trillion in investment on top of her existing proposals, which she says would be covered by reversing the 2017 Republican tax cuts. Warren said in October 2019 that, if elected president, she would mandate all federal agencies to consider climate impacts in their permitting and rulemaking processes. When tribal nations are involved, Warren wrote in a Medium post, projects would not proceed unless “developers have obtained the free, prior and informed consent of the tribal governments concerned.” She said a Warren administration would aggressively pursue cases of environmental discrimination, and would fully fund the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s environmental health programs. Warren told The Washington Post she would recommit the US to the Paris climate accord, a landmark 2015 deal on global warming targets that Trump has pledged to abandon. More on Warren’s climate crisis policy
economy
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Warren says she’s a capitalist but wants regulation. “I believe in markets,” she said in a March 2019 CNN town hall, following up with a focus on rules and regulation. “Market without rules is theft.” The senator has released a tax plan that would impose a 2% tax on households with net worths of more than $50 million and an additional 1% levy on wealth above $1 billion. This tax would cover, according to Warren, a universal child care program she announced in February 2019. Warren has staked out her claim as an opposition leader against what she sees as big business overreach. Also in February 2019, she criticized Amazon for “walk[ing] away from billions in taxpayer bribes, all because some elected officials in New York aren’t sucking up to them enough. How long will we allow giant corporations to hold our democracy hostage?” She was opposed to the recent deregulation efforts around banks. Warren is calling for the breakup of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon and advocated legislation that would make Amazon Marketplace and Google search into utilities. In July 2019, Warren released a plan aimed at Wall Street and private equity that would reinstate a modern Glass-Steagall Act, which would wall off commercial banks from investment banks, place new restrictions on the private equity industry and propose legislative action to more closely tie bank executives’ pay to their companies’ performance. She also released a set of trade policy changes that would seek to defend American jobs by negotiating to raise global labor and environmental standards. The senator wrote that she would not strike any trade deals unless partner countries meet a series of ambitious preconditions regarding human rights, religious freedom, and labor and environmental practices, among other issues. She said she would renegotiate existing trade agreements to ensure other countries meet the higher standards, and she pledged to push for a new “non-sustainable economy” designation to give her the ability to penalize countries with poor labor and environmental practices. Warren said in October 2019 that she would extend labor rights to all workers, protect pensions and strengthen workers’ rights to organize, bargain collectively and strike. More on Warren’s economic policy
education
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Warren has released a plan to forgive up to $50,000 in student debt for tens of millions of Americans. The amount of relief would be tied to income, with those households making $250,000 or more shut out of the program. Households earning less than $250,000 would be eligible for relief on a sliding scale, with those reporting less than $100,000 a year eligible for the maximum. Warren unveiled the proposal as part of a larger program that would supercharge federal spending on higher education, including eliminating tuition and fees for college students at two- and four-year public institutions. It would also ask states to pay a share of the costs. Warren would expand grants for low-income and minority students to help with costs like housing, food, books and child care. Her campaign has priced the plan at $1.25 trillion over 10 years and says it would be paid for by her wealth tax. The plan would also establish a $50 billion fund for historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions. More on Warren’s education policy
gun violence
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During the first Democratic debate, Warren called gun violence “a national health emergency” that should be treated like a “virus that’s killing our children” – and called for robust new restrictions and new investment in research. “We can do the universal background checks, we can ban the weapons of war,” Warren added, “but we can also double down on the research and find out what really works.” Though her campaign has not yet released a gun control plan, Warren has been active on the issue as a senator. In February 2018, less than two weeks after the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, she sent letters to nine major gun company shareholders, asking that they use their influence to pressure the industry to take steps to reduce gun violence. She supports bans on so-called assault weapons and legislation prohibiting high-capacity magazines, and has voted to expand background checks for gun buyers.
healthcare
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Warren has endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” bill, which would create a national government-run health care program and essentially eliminate the private insurance industry. In a plan released in November 2019, Warren said she would implement Medicare for All in two phases that would be complete by the end of her first term. Warren proposed a plan in April 2019 to drive down the maternal mortality rate among African American women. Warren has also co-sponsored legislation in the Senate aimed at lowering the price of prescription drugs that includes allowing the federal government to manufacture generic medications if their prices spike. More on Warren’s health care policy
immigration
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Warren unveiled a plan in July 2019 to overhaul the nation’s immigration system, pledging to reverse a series of Trump administration policies and authorize her Justice Department to review allegations of abuse against detained migrants. The proposal would decriminalize crossing the border into the United States without authorization, a step first championed by former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro, and separate law enforcement from immigration enforcement. If elected, Warren said, she would first seek to pursue her agenda through legislation, but “move forward with executive action if Congress refuses to act.” Warren also said she supports legislation that would provide a path to legal status and citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Her plan would end privately contracted detention facilities and she promises that she would “issue guidance ensuring that detention is only used where it is actually necessary because an individual poses a flight or safety risk.” Warren backs expanding legal immigration, raising the refugee cap and making “it easier for those eligible for citizenship to naturalize.” She would reduce “the family reunification backlog” and provide “a fair and achievable pathway to citizenship.” More on Warren’s immigration policy

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Devastation in Gaza as Israel wages war on Hamas
Updated 10:42 PM ET, Mon Mar 18, 2024
The Biden administration will meet with Israeli officials “soon” in Washington to “discuss alternative approaches that would target key elements of Hamas and secure the Egypt-Gaza border without a major ground operation in Rafah,” the White House said on Monday. US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday — their first known phone conversation in over a month as a rift deepens between the leaders. Biden “reiterated his deep concerns about the prospect of Israel conducting a major ground operation in Rafah, where more than one million displaced civilians are currently seeking shelter after fleeing fighting in the north,” a White House statement said. The leaders also discussed the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and hostage negotiations in Qatar. "The President affirmed the need to defeat Hamas in Gaza while also protecting the civilian population and facilitating the safe and unhindered delivery of assistance throughout Gaza," the White House said. Emphasis on northern Gaza: The leaders discussed “the urgent need” to increase the flow of aid to Gaza, especially in the north of the enclave. “The President stressed the urgent need to significantly increase the flow of lifesaving aid reaching those in need throughout Gaza, with special emphasis on the north,” the White House said. US forces destroyed seven anti-ship missiles, three drones, and three weapons storage containers in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Monday, according to US Central Command. The strike took place between 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. (Sanaa time), CENTCOM said in a statement, calling it an act of "self-defense." "It was determined these weapons presented an imminent threat to merchant vessels and U.S. Navy ships in the region," CENTCOM said. US forces have been conducting similar strikes in the area where tensions have heightened amid the Iran-backed militant groups' attack on commercial vessels passing through the key waterway. Earlier this month, a ballistic missile by the Houthis struck a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden, killing three crew members in its first fatal attack since October. The top US humanitarian aid official called a report warning that famine is set to break out in northern Gaza sometime between now and May “a horrific milestone” and urged Israel to open more land routes to deliver aid into the enclave. “We continue to call on Israel to open more land routes into Gaza and reduce bottlenecks and inspection delays to get land crossings operating at full capacity, even as we pursue air and maritime options to supplement these land routes,” US Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power said in a statement. The report, published by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), said that the sustained fighting and lack of humanitarian aid means famine is now "imminent in the northern governates" of Gaza and "projected to occur anytime between mid-March and May 2024."  Power said the "catastrophic levels of hunger and malnutrition" detailed in the report "should be unimaginable in the current era, but for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, this is the reality." “With just two previous Famine declarations in the twenty-first century, this is a horrific milestone," she added. US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday — their first known phone conversation in over a month as the rift deepens between the two leaders.  It came as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, where the Ministry of Health in Gaza said about 30,000 people are sheltering. Israel has been waiting for the "right time to act" at the Gaza City hospital, according to IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari. Here's what to know: US and Israel leaders talk: During the phone call, Biden voiced "deep concerns" over Israel's plans for a major operation in Rafah, according to a top national security official, explaining that it could be catastrophic for Palestinian civilians and slow the flow of aid. Netanyahu reiterated Israel's commitment to achieving its goals in the war, including eliminating Hamas and releasing hostages, a readout from the prime minister's office said. Both leaders called for more aid to enter the enclave. More concern about Rafah: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed his concern about Israel’s plans in Rafah while speaking to Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz, according to a readout from Trudeau’s office. The Canadian leader also stressed the need for humanitarian aid to reach civilians “without delay.” Fighting around Gaza's largest hospital: Hamas' military wing said its fighters engaged in “fierce clashes” with Israeli forces around the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. The IDF said it launched an operation there based on intelligence that the hospital was being used by “senior Hamas terrorists." The Palestinian health ministry said there were multiple casualties. CNN cannot independently verify either claim.  Journalist arrest: Hagari also said that the IDF arrested over 200 "terror suspects" at Al-Shifa Hospital. One was Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail Al-Ghoul, the network said. The United Nations said it stands "against any harassment of journalists anywhere in the world," a spokesperson said. The US is aware of the arrest and has asked Israel for more information, a State Department official said. Hamas commander killed: Israel killed a senior Hamas commander in an airstrike last week, according to the White House. Marwan Issa was one of the planners of the October 7 attack against Israel, an IDF spokesperson said last week. Hagari did not confirm the information today but said that Israeli forces attacked an underground compound used by senior Hamas officials on March 9. The IDF was not able to verify if Issa was killed, he said. Humanitarian crisis: A report published by the World Food Programme's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warned that the sustained fighting and lack of humanitarian aid means famine is now "imminent in the northern governates" of Gaza sometime between now and May. A growing number of children are dying of starvation and dehydration, according to the World Health Organization and Palestinian officials, and doctors say malnutrition is complicating the recovery of children from their injuries. ##Catch Up## Doctors Without Borders recounted reports from its staff of heavy fighting around Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza as Israeli forces announced a military operation inside and around the facility on Monday. A staff member of the organization, also called Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), reported hearing “drones, tanks, and shelling” near the hospital in the early hours of Monday, witnessing a fire rising from Al-Shifa's main building.  Clashes were also reported around the organization's clinic and office in Gaza City where some staff and their families are sheltering. "We call on all warring parties to respect the grounds and perimeter of Al-Shifa Hospital and ensure the safety of medical personnel, patients, and civilians," MSF said in a statement. According to MSF staff, Israeli forces conducted “mass arrests in the area surrounding Al-Shifa,” and one of the organization’s staff members is currently unreachable. Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Monday that Israel has been waiting for the “right time to act” at Al-Shifa Hospital, in comments addressing Israel’s military operation there. Hagari said that the IDF arrested over 200 “terror suspects” who are “now under investigation.”  ##Hospital Raid## Malnutrition is complicating the recovery of children from their injuries in war-torn Gaza’s collapsing health care system, doctors say. A growing number of children are dying of starvation and dehydration, according to the World Health Organization and Palestinian officials. Acute malnutrition doubled within one month among children in northern Gaza, according to UNICEF. Project Hope is a US-based health and humanitarian aid organization that operates in regions facing health crises. Its emergency teams report that 5%-15% of the children arriving at its two clinics in Deir Al-Balah and Rafah are malnourished. “Malnutrition amplifies the fragility of the situation,” Rondi Anderson of Project Hope said. “If you’re malnourished, you’re weak. A child’s immune system is weak, it gets infected, then the healing can’t happen, and it gets prolonged.” CNN spoke to multiple doctors who have been to Gaza since the war began. They reported seeing a lot of orthopedic injuries like limb injuries as well as burns, which present multiple layers of treatment. In these situations, a patient needs good pain management, nutrition, antibiotic care and fluid management. In Gaza, “all those four pillars are gone,” said Dr. Amber Alayyan from Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Adding a malnourished state to that means the healing is complicated, she added. “People who have really huge injuries are dying on the spot,” she said. “At the beginning, we were seeing people with really big abdominal injuries and thoracic injuries and things like that. And now, I think that I truly think that they’re dying on the spot, because we’re seeing fewer and fewer. You do see them, but they don’t necessarily make it to the ICU very quickly.” Israel has been waiting for the "right time to act" at Al-Shifa Hospital in central Gaza, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Monday.  Speaking at his daily news conference, Hagari alleged that Hamas individuals had "fled to the area of the hospital, hid in it, and turned it into a headquarters." He said the IDF has been "following this compound for some time and have been waiting for the right time to act." Israeli forces surrounded the Al-Shifa Medical Complex early Monday, where the Ministry of Health in Gaza said about 30,000 people are sheltering. Hagari said an "exchange of fire ensued" after alleging that "surprised terrorists barricaded themselves in a number of buildings in the hospital and opened fire at our forces." Israeli forces returned fire and killed more than 20 people described as "terrorists" inside the hospital. He said that an IDF soldier was killed in the operation.  Hagari also said that the IDF also arrested over 200 "terror suspects." Israel also released an edited video of the operation at Al-Shifa Hospital. In the footage, soldiers can be seen moving through what appears to be the hospital building and firing their weapons.  Some of the IDF's handout footage was blurred. One of the images appears to be a dead body, which the IDF labeled as an "eliminated terrorist."  CNN cannot independently verify the claims in the video. It is unclear if the video was filmed in one location as it appears to show multiple places. In parts of the edited IDF video, the audio has been removed.  CNN’s Celine Alkhaldi contributed to this report. ##Hospital Raid## Israel killed a senior Hamas commander in an airstrike last week, the White House said Monday. “Israel has made significant progress against Hamas. They have broken a significant number of Hamas battalions. Killed thousands of Hamas fighters, including senior commanders. Hamas’ number three, Marwan Issa, was killed in an Israeli operation last week,” said White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Asked to confirm the White House's statement, the Israel Defense Forces told CNN it would not comment. Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the IDF spokesperson, said on March 9 that Israeli forces had attacked an underground compound used by Issa and other senior Hamas officials in the Nazirat area of central Gaza. Because the compound was underground, the IDF was not able to verify whether Issa was killed, Hagari said.  An Israeli military spokesperson said last week that Issa is the deputy of Mohammed Deif, the head of Hamas' military division, and was one of the planners of the October 7 attack against Israel. Sullivan was describing President Joe Biden’s call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier Monday when he said the senior commander was killed. He said Biden stressed the importance of a “coherent and sustainable strategy” to defeat Hamas.  This post has been updated with comments from the Israel Defense Forces. Al Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, said its fighters have been engaged in “fierce clashes” with Israeli forces since dawn in the area surrounding the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City. Al Qassam Brigades said it targeted "Zionist vehicles, causing death and destruction among their ranks." Hamas said Israel assassinated Gaza’s Police Service Commander, Brigadier General Fayek al-Mabhouh, during its attack on Al-Shifa Hospital. "We affirm that our people and the security forces will continue to strike the enemy’s malicious plans. The criminal enemy will not succeed in its effort to spread chaos," Hamas said in a statement on Telegram. Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Monday that "20 terrorists" had been killed in the area of the hospital, including Al-Mabhouh, who the IDF said served as head of the Special Operations Directorate of Hamas Internal Security.   More on the Al-Shifa raid: The Israel Defense Forces said it launched an operation at Al-Shifa Hospital in central Gaza based on intelligence that the hospital was being used by “senior Hamas terrorists." The Palestinian health ministry said there were multiple casualties. CNN cannot independently verify either claim.  ##Hospital Raid## US President Joe Biden voiced "deep concerns" over Israel's plans for a major operation going after Hamas in Rafah during his phone conversation with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, according to a top national security official. While he affirmed support for Israel's right to defend itself, Biden sought to explain why the plan for Rafah could prove catastrophic for Palestinian civilians and hamper the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. Biden asked Netanyahu to send a senior delegation of military leaders to Washington to discuss the issue further and to lay out an alternative approach to go after Hamas in Rafah. Netanyahu agreed to dispatch such a group, and Sullivan said the meeting would occur at the end of this week or early next week. "A military plan cannot succeed without an integrated humanitarian plan and political plan. And the president has repeatedly made the point that continuing military operations need to be connected to a clear strategic end game," Sullivan said at the White House, noting that more civilians had died in Gaza than any previous conflict in the enclave.   Speaking with Netanyahu, Biden "explained why he is so deeply concerned about the prospect of Israel conducting major military operations in Rafah." He said those concerns fell within three areas: Civilians sheltering in Rafah have nowhere safe to go Rafah is an entry point for critical humanitarian assistance Neighboring Egypt has voiced serious concerns about a potential military operation there. Sullivan described the call as "businesslike” and said it “did not end abruptly." The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded the Al-Shifa medical complex early Monday, where the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said about 30,000 people were sheltering. The IDF claimed that its operation on Gaza's largest hospital was based on intelligence that the hospital was being used by "senior Hamas terrorists." Israeli forces shared video footage of what they said showed "terrorist fire" coming from buildings inside Al-Shifa hospital toward Israeli troops on Monday, according to a joint statement from the IDF and Israel Security Agency Shin Bet (ISA). The Palestinian health ministry said there were multiple casualties. CNN cannot independently verify either claim.  Here's what we know: On the ground at Al-Shifa: Hamada Abdelhadi, a displaced Palestinian at Al-Shifa, told CNN "military vehicles are firing at the hospital buildings’ windows, and at anyone who is caught moving between the hallways." While talking to him over the phone, incoming strikes could be heard. According to Abdelhadi, the Israeli military operation started at around 2 a.m. local time. Journalist arrested at hospital: Israeli forces have "arrested" Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail Al-Ghoul at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera. Al-Ghoul and his crew were “severely beaten” before being taken to an undisclosed location, Al Jazeera said in a statement. CNN has reached out to the IDF for comment on the matter, but has not heard back. The US is aware of the arrest and has asked Israel for more information, according to a State Department official. WHO chief voices concern over raid: The World Health Organization's head expressed concern about the situation in the Al-Shifa Hospital. The organization's chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the situation in a post on X, saying: "Hospitals should never be battlegrounds."  Aid program warns of famine: The World Food Programme released a statement Monday on their Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report about food security in the Gaza Strip that found 88% of the region’s entire population faces "emergency or worse" food insecurity and warns that famine in northern Gaza is "imminent." Biden and Netanyahu: US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday — their first known phone conversation in more than a month as the rift deepens between the two men. According to a White House readout, the two leaders discussed Rafah and humanitarian assistance to Gaza. ##Catch Up## ##Hospital Raid## President Joe Biden and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the latest developments in Gaza during their phone conversation Monday, the White House said. "President Biden spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to discuss the latest developments in Israel and Gaza, including the situation in Rafah and efforts to surge humanitarian assistance to Gaza," the White House said in a short statement after the call concluded. They said a fuller readout of their conversation would come later. In addition to providing more aid to the enclave, the prime minister also reiterated to Biden his country's commitment to achieving its goals in the war which include "the elimination of Hamas, the release of all our hostages, and the promise that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel," according to a readout from Netanyahu's office. Some background: Netanyahu told CNN in an interview on Sunday that his country’s policy is to let as much humanitarian aid into Gaza as is necessary, a claim that has been disputed by aid agencies and even contradicts his own statements. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Netanyahu sought to shift the blame for aid not getting into Gaza from his government and onto Hamas, accusing the group of looting relief supplies. This post has been updated with information from Netanyahu's office. Israeli forces have shared video footage of what they say shows “terrorist fire” coming from buildings inside Al-Shifa hospital toward Israeli troops on Monday, according to a joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel Security Agency Shin Bet (ISA). CNN cannot independently verify these claims. Israeli forces say they are conducting a “precise operational activity” in the area of Al-Shifa hospital and over the past few hours, “the troops identified terrorist fire toward them from a number of hospital buildings. The forces engaged the terrorists and identified several hits,” according to the joint statement. Israeli forces surrounded the Al-Shifa Medical Complex early Monday, where the Ministry of Health in Gaza said about 30,000 people are sheltering. ##Hospital Raid## The World Food Programme released a statement Monday on their Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report about food security in the Gaza Strip that found 88% of the region’s entire population faces “emergency or worse” food insecurity and warns that famine in northern Gaza is “imminent.” “People in Gaza are starving to death right now,” said WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain. “The speed at which this man-made hunger and malnutrition crisis has ripped through Gaza is terrifying.”  The IPC report, which was written by a group of NGOs, governments and UN agencies warned that "between mid-March and mid-July, in the most likely scenario and under the assumption of an escalation of the conflict including a ground offensive in Rafah, half of the population of the Gaza Strip (1.11 million people) is expected to face catastrophic conditions (IPC Phase 5)." Here's what else we know: According to the report, for the 300,000 people that remain trapped in Northern Gaza, "famine is expected to arrive between now and May,” and one in three children in Gaza below the age of two are “acutely malnourished.”    Southern Gaza is also slowly nearing famine, according to the report, which found that the region may reach famine conditions by July.  The report goes on to say that the nearing famine could be halted if aid organizations are allowed full access to the Gaza Strip to bring food, water and other nutritional products to the civilian population, and that “a humanitarian ceasefire is necessary,” for this to occur. US President Joe Biden will speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday morning Eastern time, a source familiar with the matter said. The call is their first known phone conversation in more than a month as the rift between the two men deepens and comes days after one of Biden's top allies in Washington, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, called for new Israeli elections that would result in Netanyahu's ouster. Biden called the speech "good" and said it reflected the concerns of many Americans, though did not explicitly endorse nor condemn the call for new elections in Israel. Netanyahu on Sunday forcefully pushed back on Schumer's speech during an interview with CNN's Dana Bash. “It’s inappropriate to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there. That’s something that Israel, the Israeli public does on its own, and we’re not a banana republic,” Netanyahu said on “State of the Union.” Why this matters: The Biden-Netanyahu relationship has devolved over the past several months as frustration inside the White House mounts over what American officials regard as Netanyahu's rejection of US advice on the war in Gaza. That includes allowing more humanitarian aid to enter the strip, steps to protect civilian casualties and the future of an eventual Palestinian state. The call also comes as Israel says it's preparing for a major operation in Rafah, where more than a million Palestinian civilians have been sheltering. The White House has said such an operation should not move ahead without a credible plan to protect those civilians. As of Sunday, officials said they had not seen such a plan. The World Health Organization's head expressed concern about the situation in the Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza where an Israeli military operation is still ongoing.  The organization's chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus highlighted the concerning situation in a post on X, saying: "Hospitals should never be battlegrounds."  "We are terribly worried about the situation at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern #Gaza, which is endangering health workers, patients and civilians," he continued.  A displaced Palestinian, Hamada Abdelhadi told CNN that Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers have been “demolishing and excavating the outer edges of the hospital yards” as part of the operation which began during the early hours of Monday morning.  According to Ghebreyesus, the hospital had only recently managed to restore "minimal health services," warning that fighting there or "militarization of the facility jeopardize health services, access for ambulances, and delivery of life-saving supplies."  ##Hospital Raid##   Israeli forces have "arrested" Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail Al-Ghoul at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera.  Al-Ghoul and his crew were “severely beaten” before being taken to an undisclosed location, Al Jazeera said in a statement on Monday. Al Jazeera's satellite broadcasting vehicles and cameras were destroyed, the statement added. "The Network emphasises that this targeting serves as an intimidation tactic against journalists to deter them from reporting the horrific crimes committed by the occupation forces against innocent civilians in Gaza," the Al Jazeera statement says. CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment on the matter, but so far has not heard back. ##Hospital Raid## The Israeli military operation at Al-Shifa Hospital in central Gaza is still ongoing, after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it started an operation in the early hours of Monday morning. Approximately 30,000 people are sheltering at the hospital, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza said. Hamada Abdelhadi, a displaced Palestinian at Al-Shifa, told CNN Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers are “demolishing and excavating the outer edges of the hospital yards." “Military vehicles are firing at the hospital buildings’ windows, and at anyone who is caught moving between the hallways,” Abdelhadi said. “We are being ordered to stay inside the hospital until further notice,” he added, saying that most people in the hospital are displaced and injured, and consist of women and children. “The screams of women and children have not stopped. With every artillery shell that’s fired, there’s more screaming,” he said. “There are no words to describe the fear they are feeling now,” he said. While talking to him over the phone, incoming strikes could be heard. According to Abdelhadi, the Israeli military operation started at around 2 a.m. local time. “It happened suddenly. People who were on the hospital grounds were fired at. Some people were killed, and others injured. And dead bodies were pulled away by Israeli forces,” he said, adding that “several people were arrested.” On Monday morning, the IDF announced it had launched a military operation in the area of Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital based on intelligence that the hospital is being used by “senior Hamas terrorists," according to a statement on Monday morning. CNN cannot independently verify the claim.  ##Hospital Raid## Talks between Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Israel’s Mossad chief David Barnea and Egyptian officials are expected to commence on Monday on a ceasefire in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages held by Hamas, a source with knowledge of the talks told CNN.  Hamas submitted a new set of demands on Thursday, including calls for a large number of Palestinian prisoners to be released and an eventual agreement on a permanent ceasefire. On Friday, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Hamas is continuing to hold to unrealistic demands” but announced that an Israeli team would soon be traveling to Doha to further talks. The Israeli delegation was authorized to travel to Doha after Israel’s war and security cabinets approved the delegation’s mandate for negotiations, an Israeli diplomatic source told CNN on Monday.  The mandate, described by the source as “red lines” sets the boundaries and scope for the negotiation aimed to release Israeli hostages held in Gaza. CNN's Amir Tal in Jerusalem contributed to this report. Deborah Droll had just performed the evening Isha prayer when she felt the ceiling of her flat in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, collapse down on her. The Palestinian American teacher, 75, found herself crushed under the debris of her four-story building, which was hit by an Israeli air strike on March 13. Hours later, she was rescued by other civilians. “This is not my first war. It's the second, or third, or fourth, or fifth. I've lost count ... But this is the worst war ever,” she told CNN, while receiving treatment in the local Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital on Wednesday. She sustained numerous injuries, including 60 stitches and a fractured rib. “I could go back to America, but I would feel like it was not right to do that. I should stand beside them (Palestinians in Gaza).” Droll, who has lived in the enclave for 35 years, called on US President Joe Biden to: “Please make it stop." "I'm not throwing bombs. I'm not shooting anyone. Why did they come and target me? ... Joe Biden. I need an answer. Why are you letting them target Americans in Gaza?” she added. “The world is just sitting silently, closing their eyes. Someone has to stand up,” reflected Droll. “Every street has been suffering from houses being bombed, children dying in the streets ... If they're going to kill me, they will kill me here in Gaza.” The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has accused Israel of using “starvation as a weapon of war” and “provoking famine” in Gaza. Borrell on Monday said Gaza was “no longer on the brink of famine” but “in a state of famine affecting thousands of people," adding that it was not a natural disaster but directly caused by Israel “preventing humanitarian support entering into Gaza.” Speaking at the opening ceremony of the European Humanitarian Forum, an international aid and cooperation conference in Brussels, Borrell alleged that hundreds of trucks were waiting at the border and being prevented entry into Gaza by Israel. The support is there waiting. Trucks are stopped, people are dying,” Borrell said. Aid delivery by sea and air was only necessary because the “natural” way of delivering aid by land was “artificially closed” by Israel, he added. Israeli officials have repeatedly said that issues in delivering aid were not because of Israel blocking trucks’ access to Gaza. On Thursday, Col. Elad Goren of Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said the issue was distributing aid to people in Gaza, adding that international aid organizations “do not have the capacity and have yet to take real steps to improve on distribution of aid across Gaza.” Speaking after Borrell, the UN aid chief Martin Griffith said that the UN in Gaza was being "prevented from doing its job and then criticized for not doing enough” as “humanitarian access is treated as optional” or used as “a weapon of war.” The Israeli military has ordered all people near the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood to evacuate southwards. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) surrounded the medical complex early Monday, where the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said about 30,000 people were sheltering. A crowded building is on fire at the hospital, a doctor said, and there are multiple casualties, according to the ministry. The ministry said anyone attempting to leave the hospital “is targeted by sniper bullets and quadcopters." People in the area are being told to move to the Al-Mawasi "humanitarian zone," said IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee. “A call to all those present and displaced in the Al-Rimal neighborhood and in Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings: In order to maintain your security, you must immediately evacuate the area to the west and then cross Al-Rashid (Al-Bahr) Street to the south to the humanitarian area in Al-Mawasi,” Adraee said in a post on X. The IDF said it was carrying out the operation based on intelligence that the hospital was being used by “senior Hamas terrorists to conduct and promote terrorist activity.” CNN cannot independently verify this claim.  The Israeli military also raided Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest medical complex, in November. The IDF has frequently targeted Gaza’s hospitals since October 7, accusing Hamas of using medical facilities as a front for its operations — which the group denies. ##Hospital Raid## A surgical building is on fire in northern Gaza's Al-Shifa Medical Complex, according to a doctor at the scene, after the Israel Defense Forces said early on Monday that it was carrying out a military operation in the area of the hospital.  The building is “crowded with wounded people," according to Dr. Abdullah Mohammed, who said in a series of social media posts that it was hit four times by Israeli missile strikes. “This building contains all the operating rooms for all departments. Everyone inside this building has undergone major operations and cannot move from the place,” Mohammed wrote. The IDF said that the operation was based on intelligence that the hospital was being used by “senior Hamas terrorists to conduct and promote terrorist activity.” CNN cannot independently verify this claim. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said there were multiple casualties and people wounded, including cases of suffocation among displaced women and children sheltering inside the complex. Rescuers had been unable to save many of the wounded or reach those trapped, due to the intensity of the fire and Israeli attacks, the ministry said. An eyewitness who lives in the Al Rimal neighborhood near the medical complex told CNN he had seen “a big invasion of tanks,” particularly in that neighborhood and “around Al Shifa hospital.” Hospitals targeted: The Israeli military also raided Al-Shifa, Gaza's largest medical complex, in November. The IDF has frequently targeted Gaza’s hospitals since October 7, accusing Hamas of using medical facilities as a front for its operations. Israel's attacks on medical facilities have drawn global condemnation and calls to protect healthcare workers, infrastructure, and patients from fighting. This post has been updated with the latest information. ##Hospital Raid## Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is refusing to bow to calls by the top US senator for a new election and is pushing back against White House warnings about a potential new offensive in Gaza, widening a rift with top Democrats in Washington. An extraordinary turn in US-Israel relations in recent days is coinciding with intense diplomacy aimed at securing a ceasefire in Israel’s war with Hamas and the release of hostages as the conflict deepens bitter divides in US politics. But the gulf in trust and goals between Israel and Hamas has thwarted hopes for a breakthrough for weeks. Netanyahu’s defiance shone through an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, three days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer – the highest-ranking Jewish American in the US government – said that a new Israeli government was needed to reset war strategy and that Netanyahu was an obstacle to peace. “It’s inappropriate to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there. That’s something that Israel, the Israeli public does on its own, and we’re not a banana republic,” Netanyahu said. Despite the Israeli prime minister’s stand, there is increasing criticism of his approach in the US and overseas, at a time when his position among some Israeli voters is fragile, five months after terror attacks that besmirched his brand as the country’s ultimate security guarantor. Thousands of protesters filled the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Saturday night, in two separate groups, one calling for the government to resign and others demanding the release of the hostages in Gaza. Read the full analysis. The World Health Organization chief said he is "gravely concerned" after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved plans for a military ground offensive in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza. Netanyahu's office said the military is preparing to evacuate the estimated 1.4 million people stranded there — many after being displaced from other parts of the enclave. Aid agencies warn civilians have nowhere left to go. The operation will take "several weeks," Netanyahu said Sunday. "I reiterate: We will operate in Rafah. This will take several weeks, and it will happen," Netanyahu said before an interview on CNN's State of the Union. The White House said it still has not seen a "credible" plan from the Israeli government on how it would protect the civilians. CNN has previously reported on Gazans who heeded evacuation warnings being killed by Israeli strikes in areas deemed safe by the Israel Defense Forces. Here are the latest headlines: Reaction to Schumer's speech: US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s warning that Israel risks becoming a “pariah” for its war in Gaza, and his call for new elections in the country, sent shockwaves from Washington to Jerusalem. Netanyahu slammed the address as "totally inappropriate" in his interview with CNN. That has been echoed by Republican critics, while prominent Democrats defended Schumer. Hostage and ceasefire negotiations: Netanyahu told CNN that Israel will keep trying to secure a deal that would see the release of hostages in exchange for a six-week pause in fighting — despite what he called "outlandish" Hamas demands. A Hamas official said the group's latest proposal for a ceasefire was "logical." Mossad Director David Barnea is expected to travel to Doha for further ceasefire talks with mediators beginning as early as Monday, according to a diplomat familiar with the talks. Protests in Israel: Thousands of protesters filled the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Saturday night, calling for the return of hostages in Gaza and for the resignation of the Israeli government. Some called for elections near one of Netanyahu's homes. Humanitarian aid in Gaza: The first aid ship to Gaza carrying 200 tons of much-needed food has been offloaded in new efforts to ease a dire humanitarian crisis. A second boat with about 240 tons of food aid is being prepared, according to nonprofit World Central Kitchen. But shipments and airdops, which the US made again on Sunday, cannot stop what aid agencies warn is a looming famine in Gaza. Israel's siege has kept ground deliveries from reaching starving Gazans. West Bank arrests: Israeli forces arrested at least 25 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society. The IDF denied claims by the group that the prisoners were beaten and otherwise mistreated and said only six people were arrested. ##Catch Up## The Israel Defense Forces announced Sunday the death of Daniel Perez, who was abducted by Hamas on October 7. Perez, 22, had served as a platoon commander, according to the IDF. The Hostage and Missing Families Forum said that Perez had immigrated to Israel 10 years ago.  According to CNN's count, 33 of the 130 people still held captive in Gaza after being taken hostage on October 7 are now believed to be dead. The war in Gaza was top of mind for both US President Joe Biden and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar as the two men celebrated St. Patrick’s Day at the White House on Sunday. Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has loomed large while the taoiseach, Ireland's prime minister, visits Washington. Ireland’s leaders face domestic pressure to make a strong case for a ceasefire in meetings with their US counterparts. A shared history: Support for the Palestinian cause runs deep in Ireland, with many pointing to what they believe is a shared history — one the taoiseach addressed directly Sunday. “We see our history in their eyes. A story of displacement, of dispossession, a national identity questioned and denied. Forced immigration, discrimination, and now hunger,” Varadkar said. “Mr. President, we also see Israel’s history reflected in our eyes. A diaspora whose heart never left home no matter how many generations passed. A nation state that was reborn. And a language revived. I believe it’s possible be for Israel and for Palestine. And I believe you do, too,” he said. Biden's comments: “The Taoiseach and I agree about the urgent need to increase humanitarian aid in Gaza, and get this ceasefire deal that brings the hostages home and moves toward a two-state solution — which is the only path, the only path — to lasting peace and security,” Biden told guests on Sunday. Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said the latest proposal submitted for a ceasefire by the group to mediators is "logical." "Our demands have become clear. We have spent a long time in talks and meetings with our brothers in Qatar and Egypt, and proposed our vision in a detailed and written way, and I think the mediators are convinced that Hamas has proposed a logical proposal that can achieve a reasonable agreement," Hamad, who is a senior figure in the political bureau of Hamas, told Al-Arabiya channel on Sunday. He said that the proposal could bring about a "breakthrough" in the negotiations, but blamed Israel for "insisting" on continuing the war.  "We know (Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu would say our demands are unrealistic. The judges on this are the mediators, and we believe the mediators are convinced that Hamas offered a proposal that can make a breakthrough and achieve an agreement," Hamad said. Ceasefire talks have progressed slowly. Netanyahu told CNN on Sunday that Israel will keep trying to secure a deal that would see the release of hostages in exchange for a six-week pause in fighting, despite what he described as "outlandish" demands by Hamas. Hamas submitted a new set of demands on Thursday, including calls for a large number of Palestinian prisoners to be released and an eventual agreement on a permanent ceasefire. Israel and Hamas have at turns accused one another of not negotiating in good faith, while US officials have spoken with more cautious optimism about the talks. The White House said on Sunday that it still has not seen a "credible" plan from the Israeli government on how it would protect the hundreds of thousands of civilians in southern Gaza if it moves forward with an extensive military operation in the city of Rafah.   "We will not support, cannot support, an operation in Rafah that doesn't have an executable, verifiable, achievable plan to take care of the 1.5 million people that are trying to find refuge in Rafah,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on "Fox News Sunday." Kirby said the Israeli government has said they have an evacuation plan called "humanitarian islands," but the US is only open "any credible plan plan to take care of them. But we haven't seen it yet." The comments come after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier on Sunday the operational plans for Rafah had been approved.   International concern: The head of the World Health Organization and other aid agencies have raised alarm about a potential Rafah incursion, saying the Palestinians sheltering there have already been displaced from elsewhere in the enclave and do not have anywhere safe to move to. CNN has previously reported on Gazans who followed evacuation orders being killed by Israeli strikes, underscoring the reality that evacuation zones and warnings from the Israeli military haven’t guaranteed safety for civilians. US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s warning that Israel risks becoming a “pariah” for its war in Gaza, and his call for new elections in the country, sent shockwaves from Washington to Jerusalem. President Joe Biden called it a "good speech" and said Schumer had expressed a "serious concern" shared by many Americans. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, slammed the address as "totally inappropriate" in an interview with CNN. Here's some of the latest reaction to the comments by Washington's highest-ranking Jewish official: Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has defended Schumer’s recent comments on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday. “Senator Schumer’s speech came from his heart — what he believes is necessary for peace,” Cardin said. The Maryland senator said Schumer was simply calling for Israelis to be able to vote for who they want as leader, and that this will only happen once Israel has gotten "past Hamas." Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised Schumer's remarks as an "act of courage" and an "act of love for Israel" in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union." “The prime minister’s presentation proved the necessity of Chuck Schumer’s speech,” Pelosi said. The California Democrat added that Netanyahu must “be unaware or ill-informed” of the humanitarian situation in Gaza after the prime minister claimed Israel was letting in enough aid to Gaza. Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, slammed Schumer's comments as "inappropriate" and "embarrassing" Sunday. “There’s a way to talk about your differences – not to topple a democratic country,” the Texas Republican said on “Fox News Sunday.” McCaul characterized the speech as indicative of a "split in the Democratic party" between what he called a "pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel faction" and those who support Israel. McCaul said a Rafah offensive would allow Israel to take out "high-value targets" in Hamas. On the campaign trail: Former President Donald Trump has criticized Schumer, suggesting Israel is loyal to the Democratic Party "to a fault." Asked on Fox News if the majority leader's words amounted to the US telling a sovereign ally how to run its government, Trump answered, "100%. There's no question about it and they don't know where to go. They're very bad for Israel." Trump has repeatedly been criticized for parroting the antisemitic trope that US Jews, a population that historically has voted for Democrats by wide margins, have dual loyalties to the US and Israel. ##Catch Up## The first aid ship to Gaza carrying 200 tons of much-needed food has been offloaded in new efforts to ease a dire humanitarian crisis. A second boat of 240 tonnes of humanitarian food aid is being prepared, according to nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK). But aid shipments cannot stop what aid agencies warn is a looming famine in Gaza on their own. Here's why: There are no functioning ports left in Gaza, with UN Special Rapporteur for food Michael Fakhr saying last week that Israel has decimated the enclave's main port. For the ship that arrived Friday, workers had to assemble a jetty to which the vessel could be connected before being offloaded. President Joe Biden has announced plans to establish a separate port in Gaza to receive large aid shipments, that floating pier could take up to two months to complete, according to the Pentagon. Ships carrying aid are subject to the same Israeli inspections that have been accused by aid agencies of denying access for arbitrary reasons, or no reason at all. A 200-ton shipment does not match up to the daily average of about 94.5 trucks crossing into Gaza via land as of last month. Each carries about 20 tons of aid — and even that’s far below the estimated 500 trucks the UN says are needed daily to alleviate the suffering of Gazans. Read more about the challenges aid deliveries in Gaza are facing.
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