20 killed and 100 injured: The Hamas-controlled Gazan well being ministry accused Israeli troops of finishing up a brutal and “targeted” assault on “civilians waiting for humanitarian aid” in Gaza Metropolis whereas the Israeli army blamed Hamas gunmen for the surprising assault that killed 20 and injured no less than 100, presumably nearer to 200.
The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) the truth is “facilitated the passage of a convoy of 31 humanitarian aid trucks containing food and supplies intended for distribution to civilians in the northern Gaza Strip,” in keeping with a army spokesman.
“Approximately one hour before the arrival of the convoy to the humanitarian corridor, armed Palestinians opened fire while Gazan civilians were awaiting the arrival of the aid convoy,” mentioned the IDF. “As aid trucks were entering, the Palestinian gunmen continued to shoot as the crowd of Gazans began looting the trucks. Additionally, a number of Gazan civilians were run over by the trucks.”
For the previous couple of months, help convoys have been greeted by huge crowds flocking to them in determined hopes of getting meals. A bit over two weeks in the past, although, IDF forces did open fireplace on a crowd of Palestinians making an attempt to get meals in an identical scenario, killing roughly 100. “Israeli officials acknowledged their troops opened fire on the Gaza City crowd Thursday, saying they did so after the crowd approached in a threatening way,” per NPR’s reporting, which the IDF semi-contradicted, declaring that “dozens were killed and injured from pushing, trampling and being run over by the truck” (in an odd little bit of blame-shifting). However once more: it is rather tough to know what really occurred, whether or not such threats did the truth is exist, whether or not IDF forces exercised correct restraint, and whether or not any Gazan well being ministry officers—managed by Hamas—are telling the reality. Skepticism is warranted, again and again.
Trump trial delays: The prosecutors within the Donald Trump hush cash case have proposed a 30-day delay to the trial’s begin since a brand new batch of proof was made obtainable earlier this week. Trump’s attorneys had requested 90 days (par for the course for them), however some kind of delay now appears doubtless. “The Manhattan district attorney’s office, which accused Mr. Trump of covering up a sex scandal during and after the 2016 presidential campaign, said the delay would give Mr. Trump’s lawyers time to review a new batch of records,” studies The New York Occasions. “The office sought the records more than a year ago, but only recently received them from federal prosecutors, who years ago investigated the hush-money payments at the center of the case.”
And a call is anticipated at present pertaining to Trump’s Georgia case, as as to if Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis is disqualified, which might imply a brand new prosecutor should be appointed, which might result in delays (Willis’ complete workplace could be thrown off the case). “Trump and others in the case are seeking to disqualify Willis after accusing her of financially benefiting by hiring her special prosecutor in the case, Nathan Wade, with whom she became romantically involved,” per CNN.
“Defense lawyers claimed that the relationship between the prosecutors presented an untenable conflict of interest, because Mr. Wade was paid more than $650,000 in public funds while he was at least partly paying for cruises and other vacations he took with Ms. Willis,” studies The New York Occasions.
It is an open query as to how these proceedings will have an effect on Trump’s skill to make his pitch to voters upfront of Election Day.
Scenes from New York: Final week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul introduced that she was deploying 1,000 complete Nationwide Guardsmen and law enforcement officials to patrol the town’s subway system. This week, there was a taking pictures on the A practice that left a person in crucial situation.
On the northbound A practice, round 4:45 p.m., a struggle broke out between a 32-year-old man and a 36-year-old man that resulted in one man taking pictures the opposite whereas the practice was nonetheless transferring, leaving commuters trapped inside. When the doorways opened on the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station in downtown Brooklyn, passengers flooded out and streamed up the steps.
It was the 36-year-old man who seems to have began the struggle, screaming “I will beat you up” and threatening the 32-year-old man. At one level, the older man was stabbed (seemingly by one other passenger, who was working with the threatened man) after which pulled out a gun, which the 32-year-old man turned again round on him, taking pictures the aggressor.
It is not clear that bag checks—a part of Hochul’s plan, which is legally doubtful—would have stopped this (the gun was in a pocket), or that an uptick in officers patrolling the stations themselves (vs. the precise subway trains, the place this all transpired) would have helped a lot. There may be already a Transit Police station at Hoyt-Schermerhorn, so officers apparently responded rapidly as soon as the practice pulled into the station. However that is to not say nothing would cease threats like these, to which New Yorkers have change into sadly accustomed: yelling about how you are going to beat up an obvious stranger is deranged conduct, seemingly solely the kind of factor a profoundly mentally in poor health particular person would begin doing, but mentally in poor health and homeless individuals usually make practice automobiles their temporary shelters—cops seemingly know this and permit it, which is a deliberate coverage selection that would at all times be reversed.
QUICK HITS
- Zach Weissmueller and I hosted a really polarizing debate—Who’s proper about George Floyd?—between author Coleman Hughes and investigative journalist Radley Balko that is getting a good quantity of criticism on-line. For background: Hughes wrote a bit for The Free Press on Floyd’s dying, Derek Chauvin’s trial, and the documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis, which Balko responded to with a (very lengthy) three-part sequence over at his Substack. We invited each on to hash it out, and a little bit of chaos ensued.
- Hungary is “an ally that behaves unlike any other” and is “alone on the defining issue of European security of the last quarter century, Russia’s war in Ukraine,” mentioned David Pressman, the U.S. ambassador to Hungary, in remarks made yesterday on the twenty fifth anniversary of Hungary’s admittance to NATO.
- “A recent pickup in inflation isn’t likely to shift Federal Reserve policymakers’ forecasts for three interest-rate cuts this year and four in 2025,” studies Bloomberg.
- Crawfish emergency down in Louisiana.
- We should always presumably do less U.S.-engineered regime change, no more.
- You will not imagine these Canadian auto theft prevention techniques:
Canadian police advise residence homeowners to depart their automobile fobs outdoors so armed thieves can steal them extra simply with out confronting residence homeowners.
“They’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.”
Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/H6jFUKltGk
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 14, 2024