内容摘要：A motorist drives on 31st Street in Kansas City, Mo., where the city implemented a “road diet” reducing the street from four lanes to two in an effort to reduce speeding and accidents, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A motorist drives on 31st Street in Kansas City, Mo., where the city implemented a “road diet” reducing the street from four lanes to two in an effort to reduce speeding and accidents, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

“Instead of admitting that the existing distribution system has failed, the U.N. insists on preserving Hamas’ supply pipeline,” Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon said Tuesday to the Security Council. “This is not neutrality — this is support for terrorism. Israel will not cooperate with a mechanism that strengthens those who kidnapped, murdered, raped and tortured our citizens.”United Nations spokespeople have stressed repeatedly that only a court can make a determination that genocide has been committed.

Fletcher, a longtime British diplomat, has spent the last several weeks in meetings with Israeli officials, lobbying for them to allow back into Gaza food, fuel, medicine and all other. It’s worsened a humanitarian crisis for 2.3 million Palestinians, with experts saying this week that nearly half a million Palestinians areand 1 million others can barely get enough food.

Israel says that the blockade aims to pressure Hamas to releaseand that it won’t allow aid back in until a system is in place that gives it control over distribution.

“We have these very, very robust procedures, distribution points, oversights and so on to keep (aid) away from Hamas,” Fletcher said. “We have the best plan to save millions of lives that is out there. There’s no better plan for that. And we want to get in and do that.”

U.S. and Israeli officials, however, have been pushing the U.N. to assist with a new organization,“If we come out together, we’ll have a deal,” Wallace said.

NJ Transit has a train yard, just over the Delaware River from Trenton in the suburban Philadelphia town of Morrisville. Picketers in red shirts that said “United We Bargain Divided We Beg” carried signs and blared music not far from the yard there on Saturday.Bill Craven, a 25-year veteran engineer, described the mood among union members positively. He said they usually don’t get to congregate because they are typically passing each other on the rails at 100 mph.

“Most of us would much rather be running trains. That’s what we do for a living. We don’t want to disrupt our lives, other people’s lives, but it comes to a point where we haven’t had a raise in six years,” he said.The walkout comes after the latest round of negotiations on Thursday didn’t produce an agreement. It is the state’s first transit strike in more than 40 years and comes a month after union members overwhelmingly rejected