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ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE ON GAZA SCHOOL KILLS 18, INCLUDING 6 U.N. EMPLOYEES
THE UNITED NATIONS CONDEMNED THE ATTACK ON THE FACILITY, WHICH WAS SHELTERING
DISPLACED PALESTINIANS—MOSTLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
By Anusha Rathi
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printed on the back.
A member of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
(UNRWA) checks the courtyard of the al-Jaouni school after an Israeli airstrike
hit the site, seen in central Gaza on Sept. 11. Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images
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Gaza school, Britain’s strained health care system, and Japan’s upcoming
leadership race.
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“NO ONE IS SAFE IN GAZA”
An Israeli airstrike on a school in central Gaza on Wednesday killed six U.N.
staff members, according to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees
(UNRWA). The Gazan civil defense agency said that a total of 18 people were
killed in a strike that targeted the al-Jaouni school, which is being used to
shelter some 12,000 internally displaced Palestinians, mostly women and
children.
UNRWA said that this is the fifth time that the school has been hit since the
beginning of the war last October. In July, a similar strike on the school
compound killed 16 people. “No one is safe in Gaza,” the U.N. agency wrote on X,
adding, “No one is spared.”
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres wrote on X that what’s happening in Gaza
is “totally unacceptable” and that the strike represents “dramatic violations of
international humanitarian law.”
However, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it had taken numerous steps
to “mitigate the risk of harming civilians” and that the operation had targeted
Hamas militants who were using the compound as a “control and command center.”
“It is unconscionable that the UN continues to condemn Israel in its just war
against terrorists, while Hamas continues to use women and children as human
shields,” said Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the U.N., on X.
Earlier this year, Israel accused UNRWA of having ties to Hamas and alleged that
several of the agency’s staff members had participated in the militant group’s
Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. In August, the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight
Services (OIOS) completed its investigation into the allegations against 19
UNRWA employees, finding that in nine of the cases, “evidence obtained by OIOS
indicated that the UNRWA staff members may have been involved in the 7 October
attacks.” The head of UNRWA said the employment contracts of those nine staff
members would be terminated.
As for the remaining 10 cases, “In one case, no evidence was obtained by OIOS to
support the allegations of the staff member’s involvement, while in nine other
cases, the evidence obtained by OIOS was insufficient to support the staff
members’ involvement,” the office found.
UNRWA employs 30,000 people and provides humanitarian relief services to 5.9
million Palestinian refugees in Gaza; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; and the West Bank,
including East Jerusalem.
Several other countries, including Britain, Ireland, Qatar, and Jordan, also
condemned Israel’s Wednesday strike on the school, which brought the number of
UNRWA employees killed in Gaza during the conflict to 220. Over the past 11
months, Israel’s military campaign in the enclave has killed more than 41,000
Palestinians and left more than 2.1 million people displaced and at risk of
hunger and malnutrition.
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WHAT WE’RE FOLLOWING
A strained NHS. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), the country’s publicly
funded health care system, is in “critical condition,” and public satisfaction
with the system is at an all-time low, according to a U.K.
government-commissioned report released late Wednesday.
The review, commissioned by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, cited multiple
contributing factors including a surge in long-term health conditions following
the COVID-19 pandemic, an overall increase in the cost of living, and a lack of
capital. According to the report, budget cuts introduced by the Conservative
Party-led government in the 2010s led to the “most austere decade” since the
NHS’s founding, putting the country’s most valued public institution under
strain.
Starmer described the findings as “unforgiving.” In a speech delivered on
Thursday, he said that the NHS is “broken but not beaten” and pledged to draw up
a new 10-year plan for the health service that will include transitioning to a
digital NHS and focusing on prevention over sickness. “We need to have the
courage to deliver long-term reform—major surgery, not sticking plasters,” said
Starmer. “We’ve got to face up to the challenges.”
A divisive legacy. Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who ruled the
country from 1990 to 2000 and was later imprisoned for human rights crimes, died
on Wednesday at age 86 as a result of cancer, his daughter announced on X.
Fujimori leaves behind a contested legacy. He is widely credited for
implementing shock economic reforms and defeating the Shining Path, a Maoist
rebel movement, both of which helped stabilize a Peruvian economy that was
ravaged by runaway inflation and food shortages. At the same time, he has been
accused of corruption and the use of paramilitary forces to silence opponents.
In 2009, a court found him guilty of massacring civilians and sentenced him to
25 years in prison.
“The Fujimori name not only survived but also has dominated Peruvian politics
for the past three decades,” Mitra Taj, a Lima-based freelance journalist, wrote
in Foreign Policy. “No leader since Fujimori has reshaped Peru as much as he
did—or left as divisive a legacy.”
A leadership race in Tokyo. Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has
named nine candidates, including two women, as options to replace Prime Minister
Fumio Kishida, ahead of the party’s Sept. 27 leadership vote. The LDP hopes to
restore public confidence following the numerous scandals that have plagued
Kishida’s administration.
The leading candidate so far, according to public opinion polls, is former
Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who has proposed an Asian version of the NATO
security alliance. He is running for the LDP’s top position for the fifth time
and has struggled to win support from fellow party members.
Another close contender is Shinjiro Koizumi, the son of a former prime minister
and the heir to the Koizumi political dynasty, which has helped govern Japan for
more than a century. Koizumi, who previously served as the country’s environment
minister and is the youngest candidate, has promised to reform an “old-fashioned
LDP” and hold snap elections soon after taking office.
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ODDS AND ENDS
Last week, a U.S. federal court struck down a decision by the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission that prohibited gambling companies from offering bets on the
outcome of congressional elections. Ruling in favor of Kalshi, a New York-based
trading company, the judge, Jia Cobb, potentially cleared the way for Americans
to legally bet on the country’s upcoming elections—though the commission
immediately appealed the decision. Feeling lucky? You have just over 50 days to
put your money down!
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