内容摘要：At the same time, some borrowers are struggling to get their loan servicers on the phone, making it hard to find answers to their questions, said Abrams.

At the same time, some borrowers are struggling to get their loan servicers on the phone, making it hard to find answers to their questions, said Abrams.

But on Thursday, Israel sought to distance itself from the efforts, saying that it will not be funding those efforts or be in charge of dispensing the aid.“We will facilitate them. We will enable them. You know, some of them will have to cross through territory that we operate, but we will definitely not fund them,” Danon said.

Many in the aid community, including Fletcher, believe the new system is meant toand other international aid agencies.“What I have heard is a system that to me feels very dehumanizing,” Fletcher said, noting that people would be “moved out of their own locations, deliberately displaced into holding pens, expected to show ID and so on in a very dehumanizing way that isn’t based on humanitarian need.”

He said U.N. lawyers and nonprofit partners have warned that if the U.N. were to agree to this proposal, “we would be undermining our humanitarian principles” and opening the door for other occupying powers to determine who gets aid and how it is distributed.The U.S.-backed foundation said it expects to begin operations before the end of the month.

Foundation executive director Jake Wood, a U.S. military veteran and co-founder of an existing disaster relief group called Team Rubicon, indicated that Israeli officials had agreed to allow the foundation to deliver aid through existing systems in Gaza temporarily while the group builds new distribution sites that Israel has demanded for aid.

The Israelis also have agreed to allow more sites to be constructed to allow aid distribution in all of Gaza and to look for ways to get aid to those too malnourished, injured by fighting, too old or too young to travel long distances to one of the aid sites, a foundation’s statement said Wednesday.Some Democrats say they remain hopeful for the project’s future, but they haven’t unveiled any proposals this year in the Legislature to set aside additional funding.

Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a Democratic member of the state Assembly, said at a budget hearing Wednesday that her constituents “overwhelmingly believe” high-speed rail spending “has been irresponsible.”Choudri plans to provide lawmakers this summer with an updated timeline and price tag.

Choudri aims to fulfill the original vision of building a pioneering system — already common in— that spurs economic growth, curbs planet-warming emissions from cars and planes, and saves drivers