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one of the most embattled coolness of the globe child of afghanistan, 20 years of war, follows me from boyhood to manhood. a life that has no no peace shaped by hardship, resilience and adventure. the unique zoom that captures the complex in a way which has never been seen before. witness on tuesday or of israel again, oldest palestinians to move in garza not supporting the un to relocate that space for 8 operations, causing huge disruption. honestly means all the facing malnutrition and disease well trying to survive as well as attacks. so how can the situation go on? this is inside storage, the
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hello again on chains phase, the amount of age getting into gaza has plummeted to some of the lowest levels of the war. says the united nations getting supplies in for use and the strip isn't a problem as long as its weapons for these riley military, 20000000000 dollars more approved by the us last week. but getting food and medicine to the people that is a different story. the us effort to build appear to land supplies and the strip was trumpeted in a speech by president joe biden, but was a complete failure was scrapped off for a few weeks. hospitals, medical facilities, water treatment instead of patients, systems have been systematically destroyed by israel with its western weapons. 8 convoys that did managed to get in have been attacked to gaza, is in ruins. disease is rife, its people back linked to survive in an entirely by made catastrophe. so how can this be allowed to continue in full view of the world? we'll be discussing all this with our panel of guest shortly. but 1st,
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this report from wilson dyes, aut of israel is again forcing palestinians to move thousands are fleeting after the use really army issued, forced evacuation orders. in darrow, above, near the you ends may not racing center in central gusts. they're carrying whatever they can under constant threat of death from the sky or snipers bullet test. a warning came to evacuate the hospital. we are still undergoing treatment a need painkillers. where do we go? where do we get treatment? now? the united nation, the says it's operations have been disrupted by israel's latest demand. we don't know where we are going. we don't have money, food or drink. we don't have anything. we have children. why should we go with you and had already moved its operations base from russell and says it will now try to re establish an aide center and con eunice to treat wounded people who keep
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arriving under israel's continuous attacks. israel severely restricts the entry of food and medicine into gaza with most of the health system and sanitation infrastructure destroyed by is really bombing diseases, ramping and cases of polio are increasing. of the policy is no accident is rarely defense minister you of go on, laid out israel's plans for a complete siege of gaza after the october 7th attacks on the what the living. i have ordered a complete seat on the gaza strip and of course they will be no electricity, no food by no fuel, then everything is closed. so we all fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly. the reality for the people of gauze of months of war is a daily battle to survive, to find food in water, and avoid death by disease, or at the hands of israel's military. wilson dies ard elda 0 for inside story.
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the you ends relief and works agency for the palestinian refugees, the space numerous attacks on its facilities and operations. more than 200 of its stuff have been killed since october. sam rose is the director of planning and he joins us from rafa. so let me 1st read you a quote from the un secretary general about israel is late. this moves the spokesperson says, these are back to ation. orders make a work nearly impossible about spokesperson is in new york. you will that and rafa explain to us exactly why this is making your work so hard. yeah. james, things for having me on. i mean everything about everything that we do and goes that right now is difficult. we have the stock evaluation is evacuation orders from rough uh in may, but was home since is no more. busy harrowing for the people of cause of her waking up on every other day to evacuation orders, giving them very, very short time to move or face the consequences of women, children,
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the elderly people who move 5 or 10 times already faced with an impossible dive. that very say they did, they, they stayed and they respond. bob and the destruction, the death on on. if they go they, they don't know was coming for them. there's either no space when they get that they'll be it even most one of the conditions then those they left behind on many, unfortunately, and tragically and ironically have been killed on route. so what we have right now is a, see if a people, every time these evacuated orders uh, issue, just grabbing any small plot of land that is available on which they can put that, that mega belongings. and what we saw over the past 3 or 4 days and it continued what we seen of august was an evaluation order is issued and positive caused the weather, united nations, and many i n g o is authorizing this was the so called safe zone, which has been progressively shrunk when now in an area or gaza that they, they,
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the only part of gods with that hasn't been evacuated, is about 11 percent of that. so, so ground area and we're seeing is progressively progressively shrinking. so yes, it was a disruption overnight last night when that was evacuation order, what issues affecting you and international and national stuff. but i must insist that under as operations the services that we have provided since october to a large majority of the population. continuing to some degree in terms of basic health care and subs assignments, haitian services, in terms of support and whatever protection we can provide. so hundreds of thousands of people in and around us schools seeking shelves to that. but yeah, indeed, the situation inside cause or is becoming much more difficult to operate as with squeezed on the situation outside gauze for in terms of getting the aid and is also becoming more difficult. so we're very quickly running out of options. let me ask
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you about that last a point, getting the aide in how much a is currently getting into gaza and give us a comparison because this has been going on for nearly 11 months. how does it compare to other moments during this tragedy? i believe we're at the lowest point since november and some of a getting and we're getting in an average of about a 100 trucks that day, maybe some slightly over a 100 trucks of humanitarian aid of guessing in a day that can pass through about 300 a day before the rough operation started in may and way below the 500 trucks, but we have insisted i other requirements both to meet the minimum humanitarian needs of all. okay, so i'm expecting to us. some explains why the aid is not getting in, because it seems pretty simple. israel is blocking it, isn't it? i mean, nothing is simple about this, this operation and break convoluted said brain oper tree checking procedures
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restrictions on the items that were able to bring in lens, the bureaucratic procedures of, of, of checking the goods of screening. the goods part of a system that has been in place since since 2007 when the blockade was 1st introduced, but pre dikes that many, many, many years as part of the belonging to an occupation. so difficult. getting the aid on the supplies in kemp escaped off to the border given the, the scale of what we're looking at, some rows in roscoe from unrest. thank you very much. let's discuss all this further with today's panel of guess and stuck on mad skill. but the don't to an activist who's worked in casa for many years in washington dc. dave houghton is a former us a id mission director to the west bank and gaza. i mean goza go the, i'll, her dad is a communications officer fox fab. welcome to you. oh, i'm thank you for joining us on today's inside story. got a,
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let me 1st ask you about the un and the disruption to its delivery of aid. and it's operation is how central is the un to a delivery in the gaza strip of thank you so much for having me view. and it is very essential for delivering the aid for the people in the gall, this job. and it is also, and it helps most of the engine always and find you always involved, including the organization that i work for. so we rely on a you and in many a humanitarian patients on the ground. and the u. n is also, it's official, is also essential for the delivery and you saw some of the human bars for the people in the golf trip. i might the started in ongoing screwing . uh oh, my nice i perfect and my english and on the school is so also uh,
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they like to help in delivering many of the uh, to cation of services, health services, and other services for the being for them to go to the gym match. the reason we're seeing the current disruption of the un operations of these evacuation orders, they've been 18 issued just in the month of august. now the stated purpose, according to his role is to protect people. but what you say, these are actually having the officer to effect exhausting terrorizing and endangering the population. absolutely, it's so obviously what this reorganization armies claiming, and indeed we should calibrate the language because these are not as actuation orders. when i, in the medical turn, speak about an evaluation, we trying to, to get some people from place a to be, to protect them from an avalon. so from some folding or anything that said that you ation this, what's happening now is forceful. the legal displacement of large,
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the civilian populations, which is a form of collective punishment, has nothing to do with the security of the civilians. so i think the language by itself is a unintentionally indicating that this is some goodwill, but it is not. it is the same people from place to place losing their access to water, losing their access to that little shelter. they might in time and attend during a, an appointment at all. so of course the steering to best, the children and the elders who don't understand why these chase is going on. i tell you what, i mean most. then you have better protection during the day. i don't know well for protection nights, but people humans involve. so have under these really redeem it is horrible, and we have been shouting about this for 10 months now, and it keeps going all day. if you used to work for the us government internet to aid department to the agency. what's your view on? how is rad?
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his operating here, these evacuation orders a so called save, so that it repeatedly bombs off a here, a bang humanitarian norm. so not, i mean, i think it's clear these realize on the occupying authority of gaza and therefore have a duty of care for the entire population. and they are not meeting the standards. i think that the, you know, fairly clear and without the ski. and so the basic needs of the vast, vast majority of the population remain on that. and it's israel's responsibility to do better. got it. and let me talk to you about some of the specific problems that i think you and others are facing on the ground. yes, as a disruption to the back to ation orders, but i'm hearing particularly from the world food programs, recent statement that the state of the roads now because of the damage from the back looks gone on and the bombardment is gone on for the best part of the year
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a really seriously damaged and it's going to become very hard to distribute a even if you were able to actually it's not about that. oh it's, it's big. oh, you agree? where and all the is partially or completely destroyed these days i've seen more of this junction, more debris than i ever seen in my life. so, you know, and this made me humanitarian. nobody's on the ground, was very challenging. most of our colleagues who were on the hear me to jerry and response world war keeps telling us the, the working or humanitarian of patients a in golf. but is the more difficult and the more challenging ones? this is, the more we've seen. why is the most complex one because the is there a list of jobs that are pulled so. c yeah, and is there a been in this bombardment for somebody in the spaces in dogs which then do with
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this amount of destruction? it doesn't, it doesn't impact serenity, the streets, but we don't have the increase each of the infrastructure in going to the, into the water and sanitation infrastructure in dollars off. and this is all to do is really been in this the board mentored. is there any evidence of it if dr. for all of a wedding, the and now on and children get a really nice, very with what is the difference between is 16 and strong and a from a drawing and try to to reach is and this is, this doesn't have been only the only happening. god, so it basically means the innovation of people from the basic to human via the duty to including all that and other basic to human, the buyer. and then of course,
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the delivery and the distribution of a among people who are in need mad. so let's just remind you is that you have well, 10 calls have many, many times you think that in previous was when garza was on the bombardment, but of course those were periods that last and weeks we're getting close to a year. and now you're in touch with people on the ground, doctors and surgeons on the ground. tell us what they're telling you. unimed particular how these evacuation orders are affecting medical work. i'm told that the i like so much as hospital is the one that seems to have been impacted the most recently. yes. you're right. so that you read i, you know, the last 4 through the 4 forest, the displacement order and meet sounds. that sounds affected the, the territory where all ourselves patrol is located, i think, to lend, to kind of like the evaluation of 24 hours single. and i talked to my colleagues
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there today and currently the hospital is almost empty. there are remaining about a 100 patients, there are no surgeons, no emergency room doctors, no operating through functioning patients. that'd be in the back to $82.00, not 7 hospital which was already filled up on to one of the international fee and all those which can not do the type of surgery that is possible to do like in all that so hospital. and then 2 cases died there yesterday, the 2. 0, so not co access to live saving emergency surgery. they are lacking putting goals, intravenous solutions, internal medicine services. i see you party already and so on. and we have to remember that these systematic on the mining and direct attacks on not only the hospitals, but also the primary health care is rendering the population extremely vulnerable.
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not only to the, was from the bombing, but to the disease is coming in the, in the, in the aftermath of the destruction of the water and the food supply. because people without fire, i gene possibilities who are malnourished will be as we know, very, very exposed to infectious diseases which is one of the main medical problems and got to have today joining this at the typeface. and now we have the 1st case or for your wave, um, 11 months old palestinian boy pulled up doing my mom. and he's contracted polio in the bottle at one of the shelters. so we're seeing a textbook consequences of exactly the situation left for lack of food like go medical assistance. but the difference from a natural disaster is that all of these elements are made on purpose by these really occupational forces i was trying to be reimbursed in 24 hours. once the size opened on one step is a force a ceasefire,
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which will stop the boma, you kind of start maxine of the $1000000.00 children who needs to be vaccinated. now for the body of when you have constant pumping, you try not to treat the ones if the hospitals are in the deal because it's also been so so intrinsically for the state. the way that the health care system is being empty, the all the resources edited on people, as it was said, this is the do the, all the deep occupation of the force of the is really government. they are actually responsible for the security and the health and the education of the okay, by the people. so how can we speak going on almost as you day are on after october 2023. i don't understand that i under does that this. this is a shame for humanity because it's the fact by a large disability, a population, the children deluxe tending women, the elders,
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and the 6 people. and when we see the number, so 60 or, or sorry, a 40000 killed. that's all is the tape of the art for you can multiply that by a factor of 320000 probably to then you can multiply by a factor of maybe 10 to get the number of people with the caesar's uninsurable is jesus who died because of lack of food, waters, sanitation on medical supplies. it's all very systematic signed off by these radio probation army. and that's on your himself, dave, that case of polio. the 1st one in more than 25 years. there is perhaps a little bit of good news in the unicef now say that they've secure the 1200000 doses of a vaccine. but as much says, that's no good. is it? unless you have some sort of truce to vaccinate? some i've told it's $640000.00 children around vaccinated currently. yeah. the list more main. a for and in many respects is just
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a continuation of since 2004 as yeah, there are only 3 ways, right? one, these rallies get exhausted and give all to, there's an unconditional surrender. why? how mos, both of those scenario seem very unlikely. therefore, the only realistic way forward is a political solution. i use these fire, so i'm sure. and without the political settlement, we're never going to vaccinate those children for polio and everything else. we're never going to clean up the ramo. we're never going to get clean water, we're never going to get a quality of life. we're never going to. and the cycle of grievances actually on both sides of the paper, tray, war and conflict for generations to come. the only solution is a political salma. and the data, the for the country that perhaps has the most leverage is the united states. what
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dave is, the us, what would you say about the us is assistance in terms of humanitarian assistance because they were ad drops. and then that was this peer that the us set up did that achieve in a single tool. and one of the most important things that we keep asking for a talks about is number one. apartment x will cease fire number to store arming and descending arms. and weapons to israel, and this is not only the aux found, but because most of the off many palestinians on the ground because we see these good bins, these arms are doing to the bottom of it to you know, just in an option they should be on it like slats and old dogs on like we've seen what is the end by trading arms and with is right. you, we've seen the negative consequences of this. it kills people and many of our
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colleagues, many of our friends, many or even wanting go, but has lost it. i've been a good friend calling me and due to this for and it's way unity on off. a psychologically speaking, i mean everybody gets to charge the uh with this thing. 7 the that's why it's important for all the international community for all the it's phase, including the united states, to distill arming and sending weapons to israel. and the 2nd thing is to be able to access to gaza in order to facilitate more data into god stuff. and this have been through the efficient way and we've seen what is the most efficient way. it is the things that we already have. so in order in and in order to have more data they deliver to the people in need, in order to stop starving people, we can help them. but as soon as sending and help the delivery of more days with
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this tool with the boss and where they're sending these units to the people in needing dollars. oh, okay, let me, let me bring in dave. now, as you heard about us, say that the way to get aiden is by land, and yet the us pursuit, these drops the suit this year. i looked up the details on your for my agent says websites and all that, how peroration they say they bought in nearly 20000000 pounds of 8. i don't know why they weren't using tons, i suppose because it made it sound bigger. but we calculated that. that's about 660 trucks was that's what used to come into garza in a day. this was just a po gimmick, wasn't it makes the us look drugs cool. so in general, i would agree the air drops working manager instead of the uh, the peer which was a absolute failure. i actually supported the in the beginning because i wanted to
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create some thoughtful look around and, and try to over of the guidelines where basic commodities were. there would be a president of basic commodities coming in to see for us that doesn't really leave a man or something. and israel is us of, uh, getting, you know, 8 in for the land crossings. but the idea of appear while it didn't work in this instance is something that i think a future browser does need. but in general, what you see is humanitarians theater. maps your view. um on this, i mean if the us won't see it, it could get hundreds of trucks in a day, couldn't it? it has the leverage if he wants to use it. but it also could get a c spa, which it seems prime minister netanyahu is the main obstacle to the us get to stop this in one day. it's the us decided they've president bite and as the big gun decided it, they could have stopped the seat of arms on bonds of money to israel. and it would still be needed to do that. they would have to comply with the ceasefire
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negotiations on the front. recommended treat the policies fire recommended by the us next a did by the policy in the us. so it's oh, i agree, it's a theater, and the us has not been doing anything to promote ceasefire on the country. they have been promoting bone being a more humanitarian mystery because i don't know fuck could not be open if and when the us had a tried to hard midtown you know and told him that if you don't open that her father will be no more us support we mention the number of trucks i have. the last report here from the us or shop will show recommended to all the viewers and calls monday, wednesday and friday. i need some, some of that. those who august the average they the number of trucks coming into the size be 8585 bird. they used to be 500, was getting the piece time to sustain the life and got solved for the 22200000
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people. now if you reduce the supply from 500 to 85, even to try to understand that the people inside would not get enough. and you add on that the bone being that the destruction of water wells, the lack of sewage system at all these, all the heart or scenes. this is the system, my dig started ration, i'm the killing. it is the theater, all the best that is being exposed to us on the us are massively complacent. i thought okay, one of the, let me bring in got to the end because she's the on the ground in gaza for us, very briefly. god, we talked about all of the issues. let me ask you what it's like for you, and how frightened are you going about your work trying to help other people. but in a position where you could be talkative at any moment. why don't you do this for the basement order? you start to pack up everything. possibly because you want to move because if you
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don't know the gas pumps have been the want, be care of so easy and use a truck in the street. i was running last friday in the trees, not know where to go, and the scenario doesn't happen only to me. it happens every single part of the beginning of the week of all the hours. so of course when we go, i mean every now and then we get a new displacement order with that every day we sometimes we have some stuff in the state because the, our to be we have to move as quickly as possible. there is no transportation that is a means that is no vehicle to because of the view and the here because of it's called strain. also on the energy of a human ingle. we don't know where to go. we, we, we haven't, will show that there's most of the bases are either partially just destroyed or completely destroyed or they are in, um, in urban is own or, i mean uh is there a is disease making them to be. 5 a conflict zone,
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so we cannot access them. it is really hard, but, and her big that every day in the morning you wake up and you need to work. you need to have other people who are in dire need. and at the same time, you are afraid of your safety and everybody. it has the strongest dilemma. are we going to make it fit to? or are we going to need to make it the, the next day? go to thank you very much. thank you. to all august today, dave hobbin, not school, but i've got to, i'll have that out to 0. it continues. it's coverage of the board on goes around the top with all teams reporting on the ground and full analysis on alger 0 dot com . what should we discussed on the program next time we want to hear from you on a facebook page that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha, inside story. will police messages on x while we are at a inside story from the james face of the team here and don't please say safe. i'll be back here, but we soon bye for now. the
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