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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Officials are urging people to stop spreading misinformation amid Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.</li><li>Both Republicans and Democrats have called out misinformation and false rumors.</li></ul>As rescue workers respond to the destruction in North Carolina after <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-flood-insurance-2024-10">Hurricane Helene</a>, government officials on both sides of the aisle are calling for a misinformation cease-fire.Since the hurricane made <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-helene-slams-florida-power-outages-flooding-2024-9">landfall in Florida</a> and swept up <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/analysts-estimate-up-to-34-billion-damage-from-hurricane-helene-2024-10">to the Carolinas</a>, the storm itself has been swept up in another powerful force: American politics in a presidential election year.Some social media users are sharing unsubstantiated claims, some accompanied by fake AI-generated photos, criticizing the response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the government's disaster relief group, and, by extension, the administration of President Joe Biden."It's not necessarily unusual for emergency situations to be breeding grounds for mis- and disinformation, but I do think we've seen a particularly large amount of false claims proliferating at this time," Mekela Panditharatne, a senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonprofit policy institute at New York University's School of Law, told Business Insider. "I don't think it's a coincidence that it's so close to a very consequential national election."<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>, the billionaire owner of X and a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-rally-butler-pennsylvania-assassination-attempt-2024-10">vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump</a>, has posted on his social media network saying that "<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1842284913279586447">FEMA is both failing to help AND won't let others help</a>" and has reposted similar claims from others.Musk shared another claim that Asheville, North Carolina's airspace had been closed to block recovery efforts, prompting a fact-check from Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who said the Federal Aviation Administration was not shutting down the airspace. Buttigieg <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/SecretaryPete/status/1842271678274928964">told</a> Musk to call him with any issues, and after they <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.msnbc.com/inside-with-jen-psaki/watch/-he-called-buttigieg-reveals-details-of-conversation-with-elon-musk-about-storm-response-221029445906">spoke on the phone</a>, Musk posted that flights were underway and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1842350122899739050">thanked</a> Buttigieg.Trump has seized on the disaster to criticize the Biden administration and, by extension, his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, saying the Biden administration "stole the FEMA money" and "spent it all on illegal migrants," the Washington Post reported.His comments came after Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said FEMA would need more money from Congress to get it through the rest of hurricane season.A <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/04/no-biden-didnt-take-fema-relief-money-use-migrants-trump-did/">Washington Post</a> investigation found no evidence that the Biden administration used disaster relief funds on the migrant crisis. However, amid hurricane season in 2019, Trump himself approved using $155 million in disaster relief funds for immigration detention at the border, the Post reported.<h2 id="27fd660a-73db-4a3c-9a26-23e6b84ae71d">Bipartisan calls to stop spreading 'junk' information</h2>Following the spike in false rumors, FEMA created a searchable <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.fema.gov/disaster/current/hurricane-helene/rumor-response">fact-checking page</a> to tackle misinformation about the relief efforts. In North Carolina, the Department of Public Safety also shared a fact-check on social media, which Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has reposted.Republicans have also joined the fight against the false information. Kevin Corbin, a Republican member of the North Carolina Senate, issued a plea on <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.facebook.com/kevin.corbin/posts/pfbid02VZiZFjsikbNeD3AKwkkpv5nnXpmkxWr5sJRG1G51D6yN82NvywWVaA8M8XjcNdeol">Facebook</a> for people to stop spreading "conspiracy theory junk." He listed bizarre claims that he said he and other officials have heard, ranging from accusations that "FEMA is stealing money from donations" to the "government is controlling the weather from Antarctica.""It is just a distraction to people trying to do their job," Corbin wrote.<div type="image" title="A young man hands supplies down to a woman from the bed of a truck amid hurricane recovery efforts." height="3050" width="4575" msid="113997193" hostid="261" sizebytes="310870"></div>US Sen. Thom Tillis, also a Republican, echoed Corbin's comments on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thom-tillis-senator-north-carolina-face-the-nation-transcript-10-06-2024/">CBS News</a> on Sunday. He said many of the claims are "not even from people on the ground" and complicate rescue and recovery operations."It's at the expense of the hard-working first responders and people that are just trying to recover their life," Tillis said. "Quite honestly, most of what I've seen out there is a distraction and not helping the core of the effort right here, which is to save lives and start rebuilding."Panditharatne told BI that the spread of misinformation can "dissuade people from seeking the assistance that they need in this time of crisis.""It's perfectly legitimate to express an opinion or criticize the sufficiency of a response, but a number of the claims that we are seeing, particularly from high profile actors and politicians, are baseless, and they're contradicting verifiable facts or unsubstantiated by evidence," she said. "Where that is the case, I think it can divert public information and resources and demoralize officials on the ground."In a crisis, there may be gaps in available information, creating a vacuum for misinformation to "flood in to fill the void," Panditharatne said. However, she added that's not an excuse."I think anyone like Musk, who has a significant influence over the information ecosystem, should feel a sense of responsibility to promote information that doesn't undermine people's ability to access the aid that they need or undermine officials' response to a crisis," she said.The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Representatives for X also did not immediately respond.

Both Democrats and Republicans in North Carolina say misinformation is complicating Hurricane Helene relief efforts

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Vice President Kamala Harris proposed an initiative to expand healthcare in rural communities.</li><li>It includes recruiting 10,000 more healthcare workers to rural areas and expanding their student-debt relief options.</li></ul>Vice President Kamala Harris has a plan to bolster healthcare in rural communities in the US — and she wants to try to lure thousands of medical professionals to underserved areas.On Tuesday, Harris' campaign released a new initiative to invest in rural communities by expanding <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-are-kamala-harris-policy-stances-issues-2024-7">healthcare</a>, lowering <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-childcare-plan-providers-teachers-criticize-policy-2024-9">childcare costs</a>, supporting <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-kamala-harris-plans-to-build-3-million-new-homes-2024-8">new housing units</a>, and ensuring farmers and ranchers have the financial support they need to sustain their businesses. Some of the proposals in the initiative are built on previously announced policies.Over the past few weeks, Harris has released a slate of proposals aimed at making healthcare more affordable and accessible for Americans, and her latest announcement builds on that effort. According to her campaign, Harris plans to recruit 10,000 healthcare professionals to work in rural and tribal areas. To incentivize those workers, the initiative would expand <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-are-schools-using-legacy-admissions-scholarships-state-flagship-colleges-2024-3">scholarships</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-debt-borrowers-apply-income-driven-repayment-save-plan-2023-7">student-loan repayment programs</a>, and the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-forgiveness-pslf-borrowers-getting-debt-cancellation-biden-relief-2024-7">Public Service Loan Forgiveness program</a> — which forgives student loans for government and nonprofit workers after 10 years of qualifying payments — to make it easier for the healthcare workers to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-repayment-issues-debt-relief-broken-industry-2023-9">pay off their educations</a>.The campaign is also proposing new measures to help keep local pharmacies and rural hospitals afloat, along with maintaining and strengthening access to telehealth.Rural healthcare shortages are a widespread problem across the country. According to data from the <a target="_blank" href="https://data.hrsa.gov/Default/GenerateHPSAQuarterlyReport">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services</a>, over 25 million Americans live in rural regions that have a shortage of primary care providers, generally defined by HHS as fewer than one doctor per 3,500 residents. Research from the <a target="_blank" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37340266/#full-view-affiliation-4">Journal of General Internal Medicine</a> has found that 20% of Americans live in rural areas — but just 10% of doctors practice in those same areas.To address gaps in healthcare coverage, Harris last week proposed a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-proposal-medicare-in-home-eldercare-childcare-sandwich-generation-2024-10">Medicare benefit to cover in-home care needs</a> for older adults to appeal to the "sandwich generation," or the adults who are raising young kids while also caring for aging parents. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bls.gov/blog/2023/celebrating-national-family-caregivers-month-with-bls-data.htm">According</a> to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 37.1 million Americans provide unpaid eldercare."There are so many people in our country who are right in the middle," Harris said during an interview on The View. "They're taking care of their kids, and they're taking care of their aging parents, and it's just almost impossible to do it all, especially if they work."Matthew Hildreth, the Harris campaign's director of rural engagement, told Business Insider in a statement that "the Harris-Walz campaign is making a real commitment to rural communities.""They both understand that rural voters are the foundation of our country, and they want rural voters to know that they have a home in their campaign - that is fundamentally about patriotism, freedom and opportunity," Hildreth said.Former President Donald Trump had a stronghold over rural voters in the 2020 election, and while he's fighting to maintain that lead this time around — his campaign <a target="_blank" href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/4e249a09-c4dd-4a31-8d8b-70769529924f">launched</a> a "Rural Americans for Trump" coalition in August — Harris and her VP pick Tim Walz are hoping to latch onto the rural voters who are not sold on Trump. The proposals come after the Trump administration <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-creates-new-program-to-transform-rural-healthcare-2020-8">launched their own effort</a> in 2020 to combat the issues facing rural healthcare, with communities pitching the Trump administration on potential solutions.Anna Kelly, the Republican National Committee spokesperson, told Business Insider in a statement that Harris is "lying about plans to make healthcare and overall costs more affordable for rural communities.""President Trump will fight to get Americans the best drug prices in the world that are produced at the highest standard by manufacturing them here in the USA," Kelly said.

Kamala Harris wants to expand student-loan forgiveness for 10,000 doctors and nurses who agree to work in rural areas  

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Supreme Court struck down the Chevron doctrine, which gave federal agencies power to interpret laws.</li><li>This has major implications for all kinds of legislation and puts controversial efforts like student-debt relief at risk.</li></ul><a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/will-new-student-loan-forgiveness-plan-be-blocked-scotus-chevron-2024-4">Legal challenges against student-debt relief</a> efforts continue, making the fate of millions of borrowers all the more uncertain.On June 28, the Supreme Court <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/scotus-chevron-doctrine-bidens-climate-policies-at-risk-2024-6">overruled the Chevron doctrine</a>, a 1984 decision that allowed federal agencies to interpret laws as long as they did not violate Congress's language.This means that courts will now have the power to decide what a law means rather than defer to federal agencies with expertise on the topic.It'll <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/social-security-supreme-court-what-are-major-cases-administrative-state-2023-11">cast a lot of uncertainty over all federal agencies</a>. When it comes to higher education, the ruling will impose more barriers on regulations that are particularly controversial, like efforts to forgive student debt.Jon Fansmith, senior vice president of government relations and national engagement at the American Council on Education, told Business Insider that Chevron's overruling places students, institutions, and the government in a "Wild West situation.""It's not a guarantee that every regulation gets thrown out, but what it does is it says the field of what's open to challenge just got a whole lot bigger," Fansmith said."There are almost no existing regulations that are simply direct implementations of what's written down in the statute. All of them, to a varying degree, but in some cases, very large degree, rely on the agency's interpretation," he said. "So they're all subject to challenge, and you can't look at the compliance environment you're in right now and say with any certainty what that's going to look like in six months or a year or three years from now."While federal agencies typically craft regulations to ensure they're in accordance with Congress's language and can withstand legal challenges, the Supreme Court has now made that process a lot more difficult by handing over interpretation power to the courts. Experts told BI that lawmakers could help solve the issue by making the language in laws like the Higher Education Act more clear, but that's unlikely to happen given the partisanship and slow-moving nature of Congress."Having some level of basic certainty for a number of years is far more preferable to trying to constantly stay on top of a shifting environment and not knowing whether you are in compliance or not," Fansmith said. "It is a difficult situation to be in, and I think for most people, the significant new chaos that's introduced is going to be really, really hard to work with and operate under."<h2 id="694b64a3-8a0d-4b29-b9a5-32dd6c2106a2">'Huge implications for American life'</h2>Since President Joe Biden announced his <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-cancels-student-loan-debt-100000-people-making-125k-income-2022-5?esd">first plan to cancel student debt</a> broadly in 2022, conservative groups haven't stopped trying to block the relief — and some of them succeeded. The Supreme Court <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/student-loan-forgiveness-blocked-supreme-court-strikes-down-debt-cancellation-2023-5">struck down Biden's plan</a> to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for borrowers last June, and district courts <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/save-plan-student-loan-forgiveness-blocked-borrowers-forbearance-payments-paused-2024-6">placed preliminary injunctions</a> on the new SAVE income-driven repayment plan just weeks ago.The Education Department is working on finalizing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-announces-new-student-loan-forgiveness-plan-who-qualifies-relief-2024-4">its second attempt at a broader debt relief plan</a>, which it hopes to implement this fall. It's highly likely to face legal challenges. But striking down Chevron could pose even more barriers to debt relief and many higher education regulations borrowers rely on.Those include reforms to the borrower defense to repayment process, which allows debt relief for borrowers who prove they were defrauded by the school they attended, and the gainful employment rule, which ensures borrowers do not graduate from a school with too much debt compared to post-graduation earnings.All of those rules could be at risk. Neal Hutchens, a professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation at the University of Kentucky, told BI that the Chevron ruling is "really going to empower individual judges to weigh in and interpret the law in a way that we haven't seen in 50 years.""This means that it's even harder for an administration to come up with a rule or regulation around student debt relief because now it can be challenged in a way that it couldn't just a couple of weeks ago," he said.That's good news for some Republican lawmakers. After the Supreme Court's Chevron ruling, Sen. Bill Cassidy — top Republican on the Senate education committee — sent a <a target="_blank" href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/f/?id=00000190-6bca-d3d9-a9da-efda40f10000">letter</a> to Education Sec. Miguel Cardona asking how the Education Department would comply with the ruling."For too long, Chevron deference has let agencies make broad decisions governing a diverse country of over 330 million people," Cassidy wrote.Fansmith said that Congress could help matters by writing laws with clear, specific language on intent so there's no room for ambiguity — but typically, big bills have a lot of gray areas, and it's difficult to get both parties to agree on particulars.Ultimately, the ruling has opened the door for significant uncertainty, and removing agency authority to make decisions could have "huge implications for American life moving forward," Hutchens said."I think it makes it harder for the average person, the average consumer, to hope that agencies will be able to do things on their behalf," Hutchens said. "They're not necessarily going to be winners in this system."

Student-loan borrowers are entering a new 'Wild West' where any form of debt relief is much less certain

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Trump allies are reportedly drafting plans for an executive order on AI.</li><li>The order could lead to "Manhattan Projects" for AI military tech, according to The Washington Post.</li></ul>Donald Trump's allies are believed to be drafting plans to create "Manhattan Projects" that will develop AI military technology and review regulations put in place by President Joe Biden.According to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/16/trump-ai-executive-order-regulations-military/">The Washington Post</a>, several people close to the former president are writing up an AI executive order to advance US interests in the technology.It will include the creation of industry-led agencies that will study AI models and protect them from foreign powers, the report said.The Post noted that the framework also contains a section called "Make America First in AI," which aligns with the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/ai/executive-order-ai/">2016 Trump Administration's</a> commitment to "strengthening American leadership" in the field.Trump's former chief economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, who now heads the America First Policy Institute, is believed to be involved in the plans.If such plans go ahead, they will likely benefit the former president's tech donors, including Tesla billionaire <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/which-billionaires-support-donald-trump-campaign#elon-musk-1">Elon Musk.</a><a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-endorses-trump-after-pennsylvania-rally-incident-2024-7">Musk endorsed Trump in July</a> following the assassination attempt on the former president. Soon after, it was reported he would <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-donate-45-million-pro-trump-pac-report-2024-7">donate $45 million to a new super PAC</a> called America PAC, which has garnered support from others in Silicon Valley.Republicans have previously pledged to repeal <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-bidens-ai-concerns-grew-mission-impossible-villain-executive-order-2023-11">Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence.</a>The order demands that major tech companies communicate the risks of their AI models with the federal government. It also limits the government's use of AI systems in high-risk situations and includes programs to study potentially harmful AI healthcare practices."We will repeal Joe Biden's dangerous Executive Order that hinders AI Innovation, and imposes Radical Leftwing ideas on the development of this technology," the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2024/07/politics/republican-gop-platform-annotated-dg/index.html">GOP platform</a> says. "In its place, Republicans support AI Development rooted in Free Speech and Human Flourishing."Hilton Beckham, spokeswoman for the America First Policy Institute said in a statement to the Post that the document does not represent the organization's "official position", and must not be taken as representing the views of the Republican Party either.In 2019, the Trump Administration established the American AI Initiative via <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/02/14/2019-02544/maintaining-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence">Executive Order 13859</a>, which aimed to "develop and implement an action plan, to protect the advantage of the United States in AI and technology critical to United States economic and national security interests against strategic competitors and foreign adversaries."The order also directed officials, including the Secretary of Defense, to "prioritize the allocation of high-performance computing resources for AI-related applications."Representatives for Larry Kudlow and Donald Trump did not immediately reply to a request by Business Insider for comment.

Trump's allies are working on a plan to create 'Manhattan Projects' for AI military tech: report

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A new investigation has linked a shadowy Russian unit to instances of 'Havana Syndrome.'</li><li>US agencies have previously said it's unlikely the syndrome is the work of a foreign adversary.</li></ul>FBI agent "Carrie" was home in Florida when she felt a force "like a dentist drilling on steroids" in her right ear. Her phone battery swelled and cracked its case. Moments later, she passed out.Since the incident in 2021, she says, she's had memory and cognition problems.Carrie's account of "Havana Syndrome" was reported in an investigation jointly published by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/havana-syndrome-russia-evidence-60-minutes/">60 Minutes</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/havanna-syndrom-setzten-russische-agenten-mikrowellenwaffen-gegen-us-diplomaten-ein-a-1d5d1c2e-ed83-44c8-a446-45bb50f712d5">German outlet Der Spiegel</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://theins.ru/en/politics/270425">investigative outlet The Insider</a>.The outlets link Unit 29155, a shadowy Russian assassination unit, to multiple incidences of the syndrome, which is formally known to the US government by the term "anomalous health incidents," or AHIs.Hundreds of Americans, including diplomats and officials, across the world <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-evacuated-officer-havana-syndrome-symptoms-serbia-wsj-2021-9">have reported mysterious symptoms</a>, including in Cuba, China, Russia, and the US.Those affected commonly describe a sudden, intense pain or pressure in their head, followed by varying symptoms that include headaches, vertigo, and nausea. Many are subsequently diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, The Insider reported.Theories behind what causes the syndrome have included pesticides and a microwave weapon aimed by a hostile nation, and US officials previously said that <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-director-warned-russia-if-its-behind-havana-syndrome-report-2021-11">the CIA had warned Russia</a> that it would retaliate if it was found to be responsible.The CIA has said publicly that it had found the vast majority of documented cases of the syndrome did not have nefarious causes and said they were <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/havana-syndrome-foreign-attack-unlikely-cia-reports-2022-1">unlikely to be the work of a foreign power</a>.The latest investigation's assertions, which Business Insider has not independently verified, make the strongest claims yet of Russia's involvement.It said the syndrome is potentially the work of Unit 29155, a notorious assassination and sabotage group within the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service.Members of the unit have been rewarded in Russia for the testing of "non-lethal acoustic weapons," The Insider reported.The outlet said it had obtained records, such as phone metadata, flight records, Russian intelligence documents, and personal testimony linking dozens of cases back to Unit 29155's operatives.Greg Edgreen, the Pentagon's former head of investigations for such incidents, told 60 Minutes that with the AHI sufferers they studied, "consistently there was a Russia nexus.""There was some angle where they had worked against Russia, focused on Russia, and done extremely well," he said, adding that the top five to 10% performing officers at the Defense Intelligence Agency had been affected.The Insider traced the movements of several Unit 29155 operatives around the time of several instances of alleged Havana Syndrome.One source identified by The Insider as Joy, the wife of a US embassy official, said she locked eyes with a tall, blond young man outside her accommodation soon after she had experienced her first shocking symptoms in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2021.Later, shown a picture of Unit 29155 operative Albert Averyanov by The Insider, she told the outlet: "I can absolutely say that this looks like the man that I saw in the street."The term "Havana syndrome" originates from 2016, when the symptoms were first reported by US officials working out of the US embassy in Cuba.In 2023, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2023/3673-dni-statement-on-the-intelligence-community-assessment-on-ahis">the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said</a> that a foreign adversary was "very unlikely" to be responsible."IC agencies assess that symptoms reported by US personnel were probably the result of factors that did not involve a foreign adversary, such as preexisting conditions, conventional illnesses, and environmental factors," the ODNI report said.However, in 2021 unnamed US officials <a target="_blank" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/10/russia-gru-directed-energy-486640">told Politico</a> that the GRU was at least suspected in ongoing investigations into the syndrome.Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA officer and one of the most outspoken people to experience the symptoms, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/havana-syndrome-moscow-victim-cia-officer-symptoms-headache-treatment-2021-6">told Business Insider's Aylin Woodward</a> that in 2017, he experienced sudden vertigo, his ears ringing, in a hotel room in Moscow."I was falling over. I had no control," he said. "Everything was spinning so wildly." Since then, he said, "It's been three years of a splitting migraine." He's since had to fight to get government support for his treatment at Walter Reed, he said.The Kremlin did not immediately respond to a request by BI for comment.

A shadowy Russian assassination unit may be behind mysterious 'Havana syndrome' cases: investigation

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it discovered a Hamas complex under a UN agency HQ in Gaza.</li><li>The IDF claimed its soldiers found "electrical infrastructure" in a tunnel under the building.</li></ul>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it discovered a Hamas complex under a UN aid agency's headquarters in Gaza.In a <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1756378191415951666">post</a> on X, formerly Twitter, the IDF said its soldiers had found the entrance to a tunnel near a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).It claims that this was connected to a tunnel underneath the agency's main HQ in Gaza City, where its forces came across "electrical infrastructure" with rows of computer servers that it said were using power from the UNRWA's building.<div type="image" title="An Israeli soldier gestured in what the military described as a Hamas command tunnel running partly under UNRWA headquarters." height="4000" width="5333" msid="107606927" hostid="261" sizebytes="760696"></div>The IDF invited journalists from outlets, including The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-military-compound-found-beneath-u-n-agency-headquarters-in-gaza-7e29c758">Wall Street Journal</a> (WSJ), to view the site earlier this week.The visit showed that at least part of the tunnel did run underneath the HQ's courtyard. However, it did not provide definitive proof that Hamas militants had carried out operations in the tunnel, <a target="_blank" href="https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-unwra-gaza-tunnels-31f6ca23365e349bcde1332d5028e431">The Associated Press</a> reported.The WSJ report published a photo of a room containing eight black server racks "inside what Israeli military officials say is a Hamas intelligence hub."Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, has constructed a military network of more than 310 miles of tunnels beneath the enclave - roughly equivalent to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/GAZA-TUNNELS/gkvldmzorvb/">half the length of the New York subway system</a>, Reuters reported in December.The Israeli military has nicknamed the subterranean world "the Gaza metro."The UNRWA said in a statement that the reports "merit an independent inquiry," adding that it did "not have the military and security expertise nor the capacity to undertake military inspections of what is or might be under its premises," per the Journal.It comes after the agency faced accusations that several staff members had been <a target="_blank" href="https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/allegations-against-unrwa-staff">linked to Hamas' October 7 attacks</a> on Israel, which left around 1,200 people dead.A statement on the agency's website says that UN Secretary-General António Guterres was "horrified" by the "extremely serious allegations," which it said had implicated 12 members of staff.It said it had already taken action against those 12, identifying and terminating the contracts of 10 of them while adding that the other two were dead.It adds that "any UN employee involved in acts of terror will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution."The UNRWA plays a key role in facilitating the delivery of international aid to Gazans while also helping provide services such as housing and schooling.Israel's attacks on Gaza have caused a humanitarian crisis in the territory, leading to the "highest share of a population facing high food insecurity that has ever been classified," the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/disasters-and-emergencies/world/whats-happening-in-gaza-humanitarian-crisis-grows#:~:text=53%25%20of%20Gaza's%20population%2C%20or,response%20has%20become%20nearly%20impossible.">British Red Cross</a> said in a report.Around 75% of the Gaza Strip's population of roughly 2.2 million have also been displaced, the report adds.International warnings are building ahead of Israel's planned offensive against Rafah, one of the last refuges for Gazans fleeing the conflict.Business Insider contacted the UNRWA for comment.

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