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With negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza at a standstill, desperately needed aid for civilians will continue to enter the besieged enclave at a trickle. That includes fuel. Satellite imagery shows that displaced people have been using Gaza s own land to scavenge for fuel using trees and plants.In October, Planet Labs, a commercial satellite company, released an image showing an area near Gaza s stanley cup southern city of Rafah. The company then released an image of the same area in late February. Not only is the area now filled with numerous tents and temporary structures, but the land has also been stripped clean of plant life.This isn t a unique location, either. Scripps News with our partners at Bellingcat found 11 locations throughout the Gaza Strip where it appear stanley cup s desperate Palestinians cut down trees for fuel or supplies. Five locations are cemeteries. In some, trees were quickly cut down over the period of days. For others stanley cup , weeks.Video from Palestinian Authority news outlet Wafa News Agency showed Palestinians cutting down trees in the Deir Al-Balah Cemetery in November. Another video shared on Instagram in January showed Palestinians desperately pulling up the roots of plants near Xbnj Montana team qualifies for CrossFit Games
GREAT FALLS 鈥?Dr. Arnold Scott Devous, a former Indian Health Services doctor who worked on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and admitted using his job to prescribe a diabetes drug from a pharmacy in exchange for kickbacks, was sentenced on Thursday in federal court in Great Falls. Devous, 68 years old, pleaded guilty on September 10th to federal medical officer with conflict of interest.In court documents filed in the case, the prosecution said that Devous used his position at IHS as a medical offi adidas campus cer and in ugg charge of the diabetes program in Browning to prescribe Farxiga, a Type 2 diabetes medication. Far adidas campus xiga was not on the IHS formulary and could not be obtained at the facility. From December 2015 until June 2016, Devous solicited multiple pharmacies in Montana to fill expensive prescriptions of Farxiga in exchange for Devous receiving a cut of the profits and kickbacks. Government personnel are prohibited from engaging in these types of relationships.Ultimately, a pharmacy agreed to Devous terms and paid him $45,540 in approximately six months. Devous first hid the kickbacks by sending the money to his wife, and then he used a prospective business associate. Neither of these |
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