Needed emergency supplies for the relief effort in Nepal sit at the airport and warehouses due to the slow process of customs in the country. “The bottleneck was the fact that the bureaucratic procedures were just so heavy,” Jamie McGoldrick, the United Nations resident coordinator, said in an interview. “So many layers of government and so many departments involved, so many different line ministries involved. We don’t need goods sitting in Kathmandu warehouses. We don’t need goods sitting at the airport. We need them up in the affected areas.” (NY Times http://nyti.ms/1IDSO3n)

Stun grenades and water cannons were used to break up protests in Tel Aviv on Sunday. Thousands of ethnic Ethiopian Jewish citizens demonstrated in the wake of a video showing policeman striking a black soldier. “I’ve had enough of this behaviour by the police, I just don’t trust them any more … when I see the police I spit on the ground,” one female demonstrator who was not identified told Channel 2 before police on horseback had charged. Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from Jerusalem, said the Israeli Red Cross said at least 40 people, including 23 police officers, were injured in the protest. (Al Jazeera http://bit.ly/1KFttoU)

Number of the Weekend: Another 5,800 migrants desperate to reach Europe were rescued this weekend as they tried to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats, more than 2,150 of them on Sunday, the Italian coastguard said. (AFP http://yhoo.it/1AzdsLc)