Thank you to Tommy Vietor Ben Rhodes Crooked Media for shouting out my 'fascinating' feature on rare, extensive interviews with top Hamas leaders 6 months into the war. 'It's worth reading in full.'

Click through for analysis & news you won't find elsewhere:
huffpost.com/entry/hamas-ga…

The Israeli commander blamed for the attack on World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza wanted to stop aid getting into Gaza and for Gaza’s hospitals to be destroyed.

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

NYT cites Akbar Shahid Ahmed's scoop abt US officials' assessment warning famine is underway/ongoing in Gaza.

Samantha Powers, head of USAID, now publicly agrees w/ that assessment. Also said US found no evidence Hamas is seizing food aid, as Israel claims
nytimes.com/live/2024/04/1…

Confirming Akbar Shahid Ahmed’s reporting, USAID head becomes first senior US official to acknowledge ongoing famine in parts of Gaza:

Rep: Castro: So famine is already occurring there (in Gaza)?

USAID Administrator Samantha Power: Yes.

More later...

Rep: Castro: Kids can't be starved because there are two groups at war with each other ...

USAID Administrator Power: Food must flow. Food has not flowed in…

Sotomayor:

1. There is upside to her doing a strategically timed retirement

2. There is no downside

3. She is of the normal age for an American to retire

4. Everyone knows 1-3

5. Most Democrats in congress are pretending not to know this

“An activist who criticized Morocco’s decision to normalize relations with Israel was sentenced to five years in prison, as some of the Arab world’s largest pro-Palestinian protests continue to sweep the country.“ apnews.com/article/d924b8…

Dying for some details on the dynamic between these 2 individuals… if you’re in the know, I’m at [email protected], we can quickly move to secure messaging & I’ve never burned a source in >10 years of this work
(And don’t forget: we’re only 2 weeks away from my birthday!)

If you want a better understanding of where Hamas currently stands and what the group believes the future of Israel/Palestine looks like, the brilliant Akbar Shahid Ahmed published a thorough and fair report based on his interviews with two Hamas leaders. huffpost.com/entry/hamas-ga…

Dying for some details on the dynamic between these 2 individuals… if you’re in the know, I’m at [email protected], we can quickly move to secure messaging & I’ve never burned a source in >10 years of this work
(And don’t forget: we’re only 2 weeks away from my birthday!)