Israel to suspend operations of several aid groups in Gaza as countries warn of renewed ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis

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By Helen Regan, Hira Humayun, Eugenia Yosef and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN

(CNN) — Several international humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), face being barred from working in Gaza from Thursday for failing to comply with Israel’s new restrictions for aid groups operating in the devastated enclave.

Israel said Tuesday it will suspend the operations of international aid groups that did not renew their registration, which includes requiring organizations working in Gaza to provide personal details of their staff members.

Aid agencies have repeatedly voiced concerns over those requirements, citing the safety of their employees.

Israel’s move comes as 10 countries warned that Gaza’s humanitarian situation is facing “renewed deterioration” and that conditions in the enclave “remain catastrophic.”

Gaza, which lies in ruins, is enduring a harsh winter, with heavy rain and plunging temperatures worsening already dire living conditions.

Fierce rain and strong winds have destroyed the flimsy, waterlogged tents many Palestinians are forced to survive in, and at least 20 people have been killed by homes and buildings collapsing as they sought shelter from the severe weather conditions, according to the Hamas-run Government Media Office in Gaza (GMO).

“As winter draws in, civilians in Gaza are facing appalling conditions with heavy rainfall and temperatures dropping,” the foreign ministers of Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland said in a statement Tuesday.

Relief groups say Israel’s decision affects more than two dozen aid organizations and that suspending their operations in Gaza “will cost the lives of Palestinians.”

“Removing these humanitarian organizations now will deepen exposure, illness, and preventable deaths,” Refugees International said in a statement. “It is a pretext to further restrict aid to Gaza while silencing independent aid organizations.”

Israel said its registration rules are to prevent Hamas from exploiting international aid, a claim the UN and aid groups have rejected. A US government review earlier this year found no evidence of widespread theft by Hamas, claims both Israel and the US State Department have made.

“The registration requirement is aimed at preventing the involvement of terrorist elements and at safeguarding the integrity of humanitarian activity, as demonstrated in past cases,” the Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement.

Concerns over Israel’s registration rules

UN agencies and aid groups had repeatedly voiced concerns over Israel’s registration rules.

Israel said it notified international organizations in March that they needed to comply with the requirements. It said those who did not renew their registration were told their authorization would end on January 1 and they would have to withdraw two months later.

The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli agency tasked with facilitating aid distribution in Gaza, said medical charity MSF “chose not to cooperate with the registration process and refused to provide Israel’s Min

SLO Speed Ahead: Cal Poly Finalizes Jungle Float for Pasadena’s Rose Parade

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PASADENA, Calif.—Creative chaos, construction, and collaboration have made the Cal Poly team an unstoppable force.
 
“It's really cool to see how we all can come together from two different campuses to build a float like this. It’s pretty incredible,” said Cal Poly Flower Fields Manager Afton Phillips.

It’s the only student-designed and student-built float in the Rose Parade.
 
The magic is in the details and the story.
 
A story that revolves around this year’s theme— “The Magic in Teamwork.”
 
The Cal Poly float is named “Jungle Jumpstart”  
 
“This is where the story's starting. So our robot is sitting here on the ground in the forest, and this lemur is going to start the spark that will light it up,” said Cal Poly Float President Aubrey Goings.
 
Students say the float shows the relationship between nature and technology through the story of a rainforest community coming together to restore its robot friend that had broken down.
 
The animals include a frog, monkey, jaguar, lemurs, and a toucan.
 
“We have some monstera, some ginger, some heliconias. There's lots of things that you find in the jungle. We're really trying to immerse everyone into the atmosphere,” said Goings.

It's an undertaking that takes thousands of hours with plant experts, mechanical engineers and everything in between.
  
Students and volunteers helped create the design and construct the mechanical elements.
 
“This year we actually have, a frog opening and closing a panel. Well, it's closing the panel. The panel opens back up on its own, and it's two, two different mechanisms interacting, in a very unique way that we had to, like, coordinate a collision zone and everything,” said Cal Poly Slo Construction Chair Ryan Newton.

Thursday’s Tournament of Roses will mark 137 years of the annual tradition.
 

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Dons are ‘host with the most’ as they finish SB Holiday Classic undefeated

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Dons, Royals, Chargers and Cardinals all win on final day of tourney

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - Levi Oakes got Santa Barbara High School off to a fast start while Owen Horn gave the Dons a strong finish as they beat Oakland Tech 61-54 to finish 4-0 at their own tournment.

The Dons went 4-0 at the Santa Barbara Holiday Classic and improve to 8-6 overall.

Horn scored 13 of his team-high 15 points after halftime while Oakes tallied 6 of the Dons first 8 points in the game and finished with 14 points.

Here are other results from the final day of the tournament:

San Marcos 63, Granada Hills Charter 42: Junior Aidan Conlan scored a game-high 20 points while seniors Koji Hefner and Brody Green added 12 and 10 points respectively. The Royals went 2-2 in the tournament and improved to 11-5 on the season.

Dos Pueblos 58, Saratoga 53 (OT): DP went 2-2 in the tournament after working overtime on the final day. Coulter Jay led the Chargers with 25 points and Evan Pinsker hit two 3-pointers in overtime for Dos Pueblos.

Bishop Diego 63, Davis Sr. 60

Thousand Oaks 76, College Park 44: Dylan McCord scored 27 points on a school-record 9 three-pointers for 15-0 Lancers.

Pacifica 60, Pinole Valley 54: Tommy Williams scored 15 points for the Tritons.

Westmont 69, Oak Park 60: Grant Shaw scored 15 points for the Eagles.

Whitney 55, Santa Paula 39: Ramirez and Valdovinos scored 9 points apiece for Cardinals

Agoura 63, Madera 42: Derek Crabtree scored 14 points for the Chargers

Pleasant Grove 57, Righetti 41

San Luis Obispo 69, St. Joseph Notre Dame 48

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¿Cuál es el país que recibe primero el Año Nuevo?

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Por Forrest Brown, CNN

Esta podría ser una respuesta para un programa de concursos para ganarte el premio mayor: los grupos de islas del Pacífico de Samoa y Kiribati comparten la distinción anual de ser los primeros en el mundo.

Y la pregunta correcta sería: ¿dónde se celebra primero el Año Nuevo?

Gracias a las posiciones cercanas a la línea internacional de cambio de fecha, que se traza irregularmente, estos dos destinos polinomios, que están ubicados aproximadamente a mitad de camino entre Hawái y Nueva Zelandia, son los primeros en la fila para recibir el Año Nuevo.

Un nuevo día tiene que empezar en algún lugar primero, ¿verdad? Y eso es lo que la línea internacional de cambio de fecha hace.

La línea es un límite artificial establecido en 1884 para separar dos fechas calendario consecutivas, según la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA, por sus siglas en inglés).

Sigue una línea de longitud de 180 grados (aquellas que van de norte a sur en todo el mundo frente a las líneas de latitud que van de este a oeste).

“Cuando cruzas la línea de fecha, ¡te conviertes en una especie de viajero en el tiempo! Cruza hacia el oeste y es un día después; cruza hacia atrás y ‘has retrocedido en el tiempo’”, dice NOAA.

La línea se dibuja de polo norte a polo sur, pero no es una línea exacta y uniforme. Da vueltas y vueltas alrededor de las fronteras políticas, como el extremo este de Rusia y las Islas Aleutianas de Alaska, y las islas más al sur en el Pacífico.

Muy simple: estos dos grupos de islas son los más cercanos al lado oeste de la línea, superando a Nueva Zelandia y otras islas del Pacífico, como las Islas Marshall, que se encuentran al oeste.

Antes de mediados de la década de 1990, la línea de fecha internacional dividía a Kiribati en dos partes, dejando la parte occidental un día entero por delante de la parte oriental y causando dolores de cabeza al hacer negocios, explicó Holly Yan de CNN.

“Ahora, la fecha línea tiene un desvío masivo de más de 2.400 kilómetros, alrededor de las islas más orientales de Kiribati, de modo que toda la nación está en el mismo día calendario”.

Aquí hay una línea que une la historia y el dinero para darnos una muy divertida e interesante historia.

Los exploradores europeos no llegaron al archipiélago de Samoa sino hasta la década de 1700. El grupo de islas finalmente se dividió entre Alemania y Estados Unidos.

Nueva Zelandia administró el archipiélago alemán al estallar la Primera Guerra Mundial, y Samoa se independizó por completo en 1962. Mientras tanto, la cercana Samoa Americana sigue siendo un territorio autónomo de Estados Unidos.

Samoa y Samoa Americana están separadas por solo 163 kilómetros… ¡y por un año entero durante un día completo!

Hasta 2011, todo el archipiélago de Samoa estaba en el mismo lado de la línea de cambio de fecha internacional, al este. Así que era el último lugar del mundo en dar la bienvenida a cada nuevo año.

Pero eso resultó ser un verdadero dolor de cabeza para los samoanos independientes a la hora de hacer negocios con sus socios comerciales más valiosos, como Nueva Zelandia y Australia. La línea se volvió a trazar para Samoa para facilitar las transacciones comerciales. Samoa Americana, con sus intereses económicos más ligados a Estados Unidos, se mantuvo en su lado tradicional de la línea.

Eso explica por qué en 2020, Samoa vio primero el Año Nuevo antes que Samoa Americana, a pesar de que están muy cerca el uno del otro.

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