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GBH’s Esteban Bustillos was at Logan Airport this weekend to see three girls from Gaza land in Boston, having been evacuated from their homes in need of medical treatment. Supporters, holding signs and a Palestinian flag, met them at the arrivals terminal.

One of the girls, a 14-year-old named Rahaf Aldalou, was severely injured in an Israeli airstrike on a hospital that also killed her mother and three siblings. She came to Boston with her aunt. Two other girls, both 12, will get care in Ohio and Washington state.

“We could not say that they would be evacuated until they left Gaza because changes happen at every moment,” said Nora Khalil, a volunteer with the organization HEAL Palestine, which helped them evacuate. “They’ve had a lot of evacuees not evacuate and as a result sustain more injuries or be killed. And so we are very fortunate that they were able to make this happen.” You can read Esteban’s full story here. 

Four Things to Know

1. Despite reports to the contrary, Harvard officials say they are not close to a deal with the Trump administration and that talks are “on-again, off-again.”

University sources told GBH’s Kirk Carapezza that university President Alan Garber wants to go through legal processes, not through informal negotiations, and that the university does not want to give the Department of Homeland Security disciplinary records for international students.

2. With primary care doctors still in short supply, Mass General Brigham and CVS have asked state regulators for permission to offer primary care services at 37 Minute Clinic sites in Massachusetts. CVS would hire 80 nurse practitioners and physician associates to provide patient care and refer people to specialists at Mass General Brigham hospitals as needed.

Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett, vice chair of primary care innovation and transformation at Boston Medical Center, is not involved in the partnership. She told GBH’s Boston Public Radio that improving primary care access is important, but she questions how this effort would do so. “It’s laudable. I am so supportive of trying to make this work. I just have a lot of questions about how it will work financially and logistically,” she said.

3. President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on imports from 66 countries are set to take effect Thursday, and some small businesses in Massachusetts are looking at their options.

“Price increases, it’s gonna be that last resort,” Retailers Association of Massachusetts Senior Vice President Bill Rennie told GBH’s Diane Adame. “Where can I start to maybe cut out some of those other operational costs, or reduce costs elsewhere that can help keep me in the black?”

4. A pediatric practice on Cape Cod is seeing fewer children, likely due in part to high housing and childcare costs that are pushing young families out of the area — or leading people to delay or forego having children altogether.

“Our internal newborn birth rates have been declining slowly but steadily over the last five to six years,” said Gretchen Eckel, a pediatric program director and population health director at Wellfleet’s Outer Cape Health Services. “Our services have not changed. We continue to provide prenatal care for pregnant women, post-natal care and pediatric care.”

Mandatory broker’s fees are now banned. Here’s what to expect.

Officially, it’s now illegal for landlords in Massachusetts to hire a broker and ask their new tenants to pay their fee. And while the law prohibiting the practice is new — it just took effect on Friday — there’s an argument that it may have actually been illegal for the last 55 years.

“Since 1970, we’ve had 186 15B, which is a law that says a landlord can’t require or collect anything other than first month’s rent, last month’s rent, a security deposit equal to the first month rent and the actual costs of changing the locks and issuing new keys,” Doug Quattrochi, executive director of the nonprofit trade association Mass Landlords, told GBH’s Saraya Wintersmith. “The whole thing that was happening, where lots of [renters], especially in Boston, were paying for broker’s fees, was non-compliant, and it was a question of lack of enforcement.”

So will this new law stop landlords from passing along broker costs to tenants?

“If a landlord was having a renter pay for the broker fee, they are absolutely within their rights under the new law to raise the rent, divide the broker fees by 12 and that’s your new monthly rent amount increase,” Quattrochi said.

The new law may leave less ambiguity than the 1970 act, said Mark Martinez, a housing attorney with the Mass Law Reform Institute.

“Now, it is crystal clear, it is in the law,” Martinez said. And if a landlord is asking tenants to pay a broker’s fee, “this is a thing you can go to the attorney general’s office about and you can file a complaint.”

Such complaints should go to the Consumer Advocacy & Response Division, according to a spokesperson for Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office.

“The only reason you should ever be paying a broker fee after Aug. 1 is if you went and specifically hired the broker to work on your behalf,” Martinez said. “Other than that, tenants should not be paying a broker’s fee, whether it be directly to the broker or to a landlord.”

Read Saraya Wintersmith’s full story here.