First Thing: al-Shifa hospital in Gaza ‘no longer functioning’, says WHO
WHO confirms Gaza's largest hospital is without power, putting patients including infants at risk. Plus, the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake
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Health officials and people trapped inside Gaza's largest hospital rejected Israel's claims that it was helping babies and others to evacuate on Sunday, saying fighting continued just outside the facility where incubators lay idle with no electricity and critical supplies were running out.
How are the 39 babies being looked after? With no oxygen supplies or power for incubators, nurses are attempting to provide what care they could for 39 babies who were transferred from the neonatal unit in another part of the sprawling complex after a strike on Dar al-Shifa's intensive care unit. Staff are swaddling dozens of tiny premature babies seven or eight to a bed, in a desperate effort to keep the infants warm - and alive.
What's happening with the US hostages taken by Hamas? Nine Americans are still missing after the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel, the US national security adviser said yesterday. Jake Sullivan, the White House's chief security adviser, said the US was involved in ongoing negotiations" for the release of hostages believed to be held by Hamas in Gaza.
What will the defense lawyers be trying to do during his appearance? His lawyers will be trying to make their case that lenders were not harmed by and had actively sought out relationships with the Trump family. In testimony so far, the Trumps have downplayed the importance of the financial statements, saying they were handled exclusively by the organization's accountants and legal departments and that the family typically had enough cash on hand to conduct deals.
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