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The southern border of the Gaza Strip with Egypt is now under the control of the Israeli military. The Philadephi Corridor, as it is referred to by the Israeli military, is a 9-mile (14 km) long corridor along this border, and its takeover has given the country effective authority over all of Gaza's border.
This comes just days after Israel's invasion of the refugee-filled city of Rafah, and things in the city have gotten much worse. Early Wednesday, the military sent tanks into Rafah. They had moved into the center of the city on Tuesday, despite an order from the International Court of Justice to stop the assault. The U.S. has maintained its position in condemning the invasion of Rafah, calling for an immediate cease-fire. However, Hamas has proclaimed they will only proceed in cease-fire negotiations if Israel stops this offensive.
Furthermore, after Israel has captured Rafah, it has slowed down the progression of aid through the crucial border city into the Gaza Strip. Because of this, there was slightly more dependency on other sources of aid, like air and water, but that was further hindered when United States President Joe Biden's $320 million dollar makeshift pier was damaged by rough seas over the past week.
The pier was up and running a week ago, but storms in the area made it impossible to deliver aid through the port. Then, large waves ended up damaging the pier, breaking it apart.Those same waves also sent the US Army ships that were docked there aground, and they became beached. However, two of the four ships have since been freed.
Officials have stated that they hope to get the pier back online in a couple of weeks, maybe even sooner. For now, it has been dismantled and taken to a port in Israel, where the pier will be reassembled and reinstalled to its original location. They hope to send at least 150 trucks of aid per day when it is ready, but there is still a long way to go.
On a weather-related note, we have another update on the latest temperatures in India. People are sweltering across the country as temperatures crushed India's previous all-time record for highest temperature, with a scorching temperature of 127.2˚F (52.9˚C) in New Delhi.
This sudden temperature change was caused by an unexpected transition from El Niño to La Niña, creating a lack of moisture-bringing winds and prolonged heating. This, paired with global warming, has raised temperatures this high.
Because of the high temperatures, the India Meteorological Department has considered this to be a severe heat wave. To handle the heat, people have been handing out cool drinks, fanning each other, and covering their heads. In addition to Delhi, northern and central India have also faced the record heat. In Rajasthan, 451 cases of heat stroke were reported just on Wednesday.
We at YNH hope that everyone in South and East Asia, no matter what disaster they are facing, can overcome this.
Fact of the Day (Reader's Digest): Stan Munro from the United States is the mastermind behind the world’s largest display of toothpick sculptures. It took Munro more than ten years, three million toothpicks, and 75 gallons (283.91 l) of glue to make the 101 structures that are part of his display, featuring buildings from 37 different countries.
Quote of the Day (Gracious Quotes): There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn’t exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer’s day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it’s only one of untold thousands of planets. (Gus Grissom)
Word of the Day (Merriam-Webster): Obstreperous (adj) - Obstreperous is a formal word that describes people or things that stubbornly resist control; in this use, it’s a synonym of unruly. A person or thing described as obstreperous may also be defiantly or aggressively noisy.
In a Sentence: The moment the paper airplane landed, the instructor addressed the unruly class, telling them in the harshest tone that obstreperous conduct would not be tolerated.
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