•Canada and Sweden restored financial aid to UNRWA, the UN agency in charge of distributing aid to Palestinians. The US and other countries cut aid after the Netanyahu Administration claimed, without evidence, that thirteen of the thousands of UNRWA aid workers had ties to the Oct 7, 2023 attack on Israel. UNRWA accused the Israeli military of beating and waterboarding some of its staff held in Israeli prisons to force false statements against the aid agency.

•On Monday, March 11, the first day of Ramadan, a UAE-funded World Central Kitchen and Open Arms aid ship with 200 tons of food supplies set sail from Cypress to displaced Palestinians in Gaza, which the UN says is on the brink of famine.

•Twelve prominent Israeli human rights agencies have accused Israel of failing to abide by the International Court of Justice’s January 26 order that Israel must facilitate humanitarian aid into Gaza.

•During a CNBC interview, former President Trump said about Social Security and Medicare, “There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.”

•Unelected Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced online that he will resign after transitional leadership is in place. He has been out of the country since late February, arranging for Kenyan security troops to help police the nation after demonstrations of thousands of Haitians called for him to step down. Henry took over the office in 2021 after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise and has not allowed elections since. CARICOM, the Caribbean Council of Ministers, proposed a 7-member transitional council takeover. The US pledged $100 million to finance a multinational force to secure the country.

•Fact Check: Republican Senator Katie Britt, (in the official Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union address) told about a 12-year-old who was sexually trafficked by drug cartels as an example of Biden’s border policy. The girl mentioned, Karla Jacinto, now an adult working to stop human trafficking, set the record straight in an interview on CNN: The incident happened in Mexico during the presidency of George Bush, and drug cartels were not involved.

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