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| In the tiny Gaza Strip, where more than two million people are trapped, death can feel imminent. Israeli airstrikes, which have resumed after a brief truce, can come at any time and to any place, and food and water remain scarce. Already, more than 16,000 people have been killed in the Hamas-run territory, according to the health ministry. | In the tiny Gaza Strip, where more than two million people are trapped, death can feel imminent. Israeli airstrikes, which have resumed after a brief truce, can come at any time and to any place, and food and water remain scarce. Already, more than 16,000 people have been killed in the Hamas-run territory, according to the health ministry. |
| Israel says civilian casualties are inevitable because Hamas embeds within Gaza’s population. The country’s military is now entering its next phase of its offensive against Hamas, more closely focused on the south, where most of Gaza’s population has fled. | Israel says civilian casualties are inevitable because Hamas embeds within Gaza’s population. The country’s military is now entering its next phase of its offensive against Hamas, more closely focused on the south, where most of Gaza’s population has fled. |
| Israel has told many civilians there to move again. But it is not obvious where they should go, and conditions are desperate. Parents skip meals so their children can eat. Taps have run dry. U.N. shelters are so crowded that there is a single toilet for every 160 people, and none of Gaza’s hospitals are functional enough to perform surgery, according to the W.H.O. | Israel has told many civilians there to move again. But it is not obvious where they should go, and conditions are desperate. Parents skip meals so their children can eat. Taps have run dry. U.N. shelters are so crowded that there is a single toilet for every 160 people, and none of Gaza’s hospitals are functional enough to perform surgery, according to the W.H.O. |
| Blockade: Before the war, some 500 trucks with essential supplies came into Gaza every day, many from Egypt via the Rafah crossing. Far fewer have made it across since the bombardment began, even during the cease-fire. The trucks slowed to a trickle once the fighting resumed. | Blockade: Before the war, some 500 trucks with essential supplies came into Gaza every day, many from Egypt via the Rafah crossing. Far fewer have made it across since the bombardment began, even during the cease-fire. The trucks slowed to a trickle once the fighting resumed. |
| In other news from the war: | In other news from the war: |
| The Israeli military released a photo of 11 senior Hamas military leaders gathered in a tunnel beneath Gaza and said that five of them had been killed. | The Israeli military released a photo of 11 senior Hamas military leaders gathered in a tunnel beneath Gaza and said that five of them had been killed. |
| The war in Gaza has not only laid bare a chasm between many Arab leaders and their people, it has also widened it. | The war in Gaza has not only laid bare a chasm between many Arab leaders and their people, it has also widened it. |
| Republicans blocked an emergency spending bill to provide about $50 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, demanding strict new restrictions at the U.S. border in exchange and severely jeopardizing President Biden’s push to replenish the war chests of American allies before the end of the year. | |
| While the bill faltered over an unrelated immigration policy dispute, the resistance it has met in Congress reflects a dwindling appetite among Republicans for backing Ukraine, as polls show that Americans are losing interest in providing financial assistance. Before the vote, Biden said he was willing to compromise, calling the southern border “broken.” | |
| By the numbers: In the Senate, the vote to move forward on the bill was 49 to 51, short of the 60-vote threshold needed to advance. | |
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| The U.S. Justice Department used a decades-old war crimes statute to charge four Russian soldiers with torturing an American living in Ukraine. | |
| In Ukraine, political frictions, including between President Volodymyr Zelensky and his military chief, have emerged as the country enters its second winter of war with Russia. | |
| John Kerry, President Biden’s special envoy for climate change, said that the U.S. supported “largely” ending the burning of coal, gas and oil to limit average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. The planet has already warmed by 1.2 degrees Celsius. | |
| Nations would also need to deploy technology to capture and store carbon emissions from industries for which there are no low-carbon or zero-carbon alternatives, like steel and cement manufacturing, he said. | |
| Quotable: “We’ve got to do what the science tells us to do, and the science has been clear,” Kerry said at the U.N. climate talks in Dubai. | |
| Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain announced plans to disregard some human rights law to rescue a scheme that would deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. | |
| Leaders of the E.U. met with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing earlier today in an effort to stabilize an increasingly rocky relationship. | |
| Boris Johnson acknowledged that he had underestimated the threat of the coronavirus in early 2020, but he disputed that his government’s sluggish response had caused more deaths. | |
| A restaurant manager in France was charged with involuntary homicide over a botulism outbreak at his organic wine bar. | |
| A 42-year-old woman was killed in east London in a rare deadly shooting for the country. | |
| Two months after being ousted as House speaker, Kevin McCarthy announced that he would leave Congress at the end of the year. | |
| A shooter opened fire at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, injuring at least three people. The suspect died after being confronted by the police. | |
| With three new films on Netflix, Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company is pursuing more ambitious projects. | |
| A canine respiratory illness is spreading in the U.S., causing cough, fever and lethargy in dogs. Veterinarians say it’s not cause to panic. | |
| Lawmakers around the world are racing to catch up to fears that A.I. will kill jobs, turbocharge disinformation and eventually develop its own kind of intelligence. | |
| The British government selected Samir Shah, a veteran television executive, to be the new head of the BBC. | |
| Time magazine named Taylor Swift as its person of the year. | |
| The Killers released “Mr. Brightside” 20 years ago, and hardly anybody cared. Yet in the intervening decades, the song — which eventually reached the Billboard Hot 100 over a year after its initial release, peaking at No. 10 in June 2005 — has become something more than a hit, eventually blossoming into a full-throttle generational anthem. | |
| Norman Lear, the television writer and producer behind “The Jeffersons,” “Good Times” and “All in the Family,” died on Tuesday at 101. | |
| What next for Lionel Scaloni? The factors behind his disillusionment with the Argentina coaching job. | |
| Yoshinobu Yamamoto: American teams start bidding on the Japanese baseball star next week — and he could get a record-breaking contract. | |
| German soccer isn’t dead: Reports of a bleak future are greatly exaggerated. | |
| Margot Robbie walked the red carpet in bubble-gum pink; Rihanna performed at the Super Bowl in an unforgettable maternity jumpsuit; and the A.I. pope’s all-white puffer tricked countless social media users. Those are just three of the 71 looks that defined style this year. | |
| “Some had great hair. Some had singular accessories. One person had both — and was mistaken for a duchess in disguise,” members of The Times’s Styles desk write. “Certain people might surprise you or (we hope) inspire heated debate. After all, one thing they had in common is they made us talk: about what we wear, how we live and how we express ourselves.” | |
| Cook: You don’t need to celebrate Hanukkah to love classic potato latkes. | |
| Wear: Our pick of the best black tights. | |
| Read: A literary tour of Madrid. | |
| Descend: Go sledding in Switzerland. | |
| Listen: Our critics each made a list of their favorite songs of 2023. | |
| Play the Spelling Bee. And here are today’s Mini Crossword and Wordle. You can find all our puzzles here. | |
| That’s it for today’s briefing. See you tomorrow. — Natasha | |
| P.S. Hamed Aleaziz is joining The Times to cover immigration and the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| You can reach Natasha and the team at briefing@nytimes.com. |