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they make heads and talk to of a special investigation, $1.00 oh, $1.00 east aust. chinese. my friends, if the american dream is worth the risk and the sacrifice on out to 0, the stopping and on the attack, palestinians collecting food a master code to buy is really forces at least 70 on health and hundreds more insurance in washington cause us to once we approach to a trucks that is really tanks and we're clean started fire. and if this continues like this, we do not want any deliberate at all. every comm, boyd coming means another mask, the hello i'm to solve the attain. this is out of their life from the also coming up.
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several babies die at the hospital in northern garza because they couldn't get enough to eat or drink. and another health facility under attack and also hospital in southern garza, suspends operations of the as rarely selling was to find the well we open with breaking news from gaza city, at least 70 palestinians had been killed in a cold blooded masika of palestinian civilians by is there any troops we understand more than 250 people were also injured. many of them are in critical condition. hundreds of hungry and starving palestinians have come to collect food aid when they were attacked by his rarely snipers and shells by his rarely tanks. civilians were left scrambling to then transport them to nearby hospitals. most of them all out of service. on the side that you have come here to get our hands on some 8.
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i've been waiting here since noon yesterday was about 430 in the early morning with the truck started district. the land is really just open random fire on us as if it was a truck. once we approach to a trucks that is really tanks and were playing started firing on us. if this continues like this, we do not want any aid deliberate at all. every con board come in means another method. well, some of the injured we understand for taken to, i'll shape the hospital in gaza city. here's an account from one of the doctors that did all our shipping. is that the level of edit does he have made a lot of it has seen it are really no words to describe. the situation reminds us of the dock seeds from the baptist hospital 4 months ago with 500 people were killed. and one is really s drawing. since the early hours of the morning, the hospital has been flooded with thousands of dead bodies and hundreds of injured . the majority of the victims suffered gunshot wounds and trap, though in the head and upper parts of the bodies. they were hit by direct artillery
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. shelly droned missiles and on the fire, all probation rooms are full and all medical stones have been deployed. above all, we ran out of medical supplies and fuel necessary to operate the hospital. we hope we will be able to provide any live saving procedures to those victims. will. victims are in critical condition that lying on the floor, we stand helpless. i'm in the shop, a shortage of supplies and stuff. how did you get that speed around correspondence on the ground honey law. once he joins me on the phone from rossa and southern garza honey, what exactly do we know about what happened and go to the city? this is what we, we followed this a try that gets towards the midnight and for one of the during the grotto document that people were arriving to and the both the round about the quarter to $1050.00. that was part of the bitterness. the machine was working and gathered in large and cool, waiting for
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a truck to arrive. 2 daughters in the northern part, me lead people of them being a grappling with family and, and faith with, with the part of being shit and difficult living conditions within the past. few weeks and then it took me to buy the northern part people resorting to be inc, and will be that. and why the claim is a life still has these people were bad bringing this, waiting for the healey fire. we're hoping that you haven't and they were shot at by old client sue of military equipment available at that point. and from the new forces of reason, he reported it from, from time printed from a package that were hovering and were describing one of the jordan with on the ground as having gotten the very little. busy of the above people and also from army, the vehicles that were within the vicinity of the area so far we're looking at a very tragic scene. people who are not i was waiting for
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the crowd before about the people to record. it's going to be in the water water all the way up to chicago, october 1st on cards pulled by donkeys or by cars or by in the very truck that car is he'd turn into an ambulance. right. and now it's kind of, it's carrie got a bodies of injuries as well as those who are being killed and the transfer them to a she fell off because according to an eye witness right now on the, the quote, the, they're more bodies that haven't been collected has been identified, we are expecting that number within the to get it published as far as part of the ground. right. so know where she broad with no home available. look
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further, given the fact that there are still in drones, in the, in the area of and they're also the, they'd be done. boats are firing. people are getting closer to a novelty around about terrible pictures that we're seeing that honey must point with all the latest for us. from rafa and southern garza. and just to warn you that the pictures that we have been seeing and they've been planted, we appreciate that they may be disturbing. we understand that's all rashid street and gauze, a city where masika has taken place, where people were collecting food and well in the meantime, the palestinian ministry of foreign affairs has condemned that attack cooling as a heinous masika. it says as well as really forces killed in cold blood, dozens of palestinians, as they waited for humanitarian aid. the ministry has called on the international communities to intervene. urgent, st. first the spot that spring insane does. robbie, he joins me live now from ramallah and the occupied west mac zane. very strong call to action that from the p a that is correct. there is no end to the extreme
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frustration the palestinians and posting and leaders here in ramallah have as they continue to watch one, a horrifying incident after another in gaza. a strong condemnation once again for what is happening there for what has happened today. we've seen yet another unprovoked and deliberate attack on once again, targets who are civilians. let's stop for a moment and really look at who it is that has been the recipient of these is really attacks of is really bullets. these are people who are facing famine conditions, medical standards being applied to the population in gaza. do say that start of ation is happening. many people, hundreds of thousands of people, more than half a 1000000 people living in gaza at risk of real starvation. so these people waiting in line for food, it's clamoring for a truck to be seen. a gun fire opened on palestinians living and gaza in the past. of people who've been injured. people have been killed in and around rafa trying to
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get aid. but nothing at this scale, nothing like this initial estimate, say 70. some estimates say that that number as high as a 150 killed hundreds more injured and the image is coming out of there that we're seeing here are truly horrifying. a corpses of men and women being piled up on the back of laurie's that are meant to carry shipping containers covering the flat bed truck. of these, laurie's a bloodied age of food, 8 boxes, injuries to people's heads and torsos, of just bodies lining the streets. there are no ambulances, people are being moved on horses and bug is a by horse, and buggy is their being moved on back. so people are caring people injured people, to the hospitals where they can on their own backs. so these are truly devastating in dire and desperate circumstances. the p. a for an ministry saying that it condemns in the strongest terms these heinous massacres committed by these really forces and is once again calling on the international from in a day,
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intervene and carry out whatever it needs to do to implement the ceasefire. now one thing that we've heard from palestinian leadership and palestinians living here in the occupied westbank over and over again is that there is a double standard being applied to this conflict. they compare it to ukraine. and when we look back at how we covered ukraine, one incident comes to mind. there was an attack by russian forces on a bred line where 9 people died and that made headlines for days and weeks all over the world with investigations into exactly what was used and why. and it was only a death towards about 9 people. if you apply that standard to what has happened today to what has been going on for almost 5 months now, then that should be enough to bring a ceasefire into place here. but what posting has continued to say is that this is not a war in europe. but this is a war in palestine, and the standards here of are applied very differently than does rob here with the latest for us, the from ramallah in the occupied westbank. thank choosing. well, that's not going to have that amongst. he joins me from occupying the stories that
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i'm it has been so highly restricted by these relatives that we see these huge crowds gather to collect whatever they can win a does make it in once a situation like mountain in terms of trucks actually costing about that so this is being obviously a excuse to contentious issue for so many months, almost in the sort of this kind of thing. we've had this huge pressure from the inception community to try and increase the flow of aid in to the gaza strip. chick till the, the last couple of months. so it's been a huge source to try and get more food aid in particular to the northern parts of a strip, but had been emptied some more during the earlier stages of the war. the un have been talking about the fact that just in the last few weeks has been a significant drop off in the amount of a entering into gaza overall. the well food program in particular for many weeks now has been talking about the risks to people in the know of goals that we do not have enough access to food and the impact that could have both on that. so
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unloading some health, they say one of the challenges inside go there is trying to coordinate say for you to get trucks into areas that may be the center of fighting in terms of the process of getting those tracts trumps into the strip though, there's a lot of checks that go on inside is ready, tired tree before they pass into this trip. but it sometimes takes a huge amount of time, the israelis even objectively on not doing that full till 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. that means that rob performance, the build up model of the possible crossings into gaza was open as well. so there are ways of more a to get in the that's clearly a lot of it weight seems to go in and some of the consequences we're seeing and these awful images where we, we know that there are things constraints and their ongoing. we've also seen seemingly systematic attacks on a infrastructure in strength and that's the really difficult thing to say without the details of any specific incident. we don't know whether this is deliberate targeting, bye is ready for us,
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is on some of these sites. clearly today's incident, so it needs a risk pick in terms of the, the number of casualties, the number of injuries. but at this stage themselves, i think it's important say we don't know quite what happened in this incident. how suddenly be trying to answer some of those questions and bringing more on that as we get it for now? but amongst that from occupied is true sometimes fun. but at least 7 babies have died as kamala antoine hospital because they didn't get enough food or let quits. the health facility and northern garza was also forced to suspend operations because of run out of fuel. dozens of children admitted to hospitals on not receiving proper treatment. the while and feed program says that because it has the highest level of child on nutrition. in the wild, honest, i'm sure he finds this report, the toner till i get the inside. then you need to intensive care units of to come a large one hospital. well, we have a number off, you've own babies who are suffering from severe money,
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attrition and funding. it's very difficult to obtain the required medication and treatment. as this ready occupation continues to prevent relief and human c, n a and medication from entering the gaza strip and reaching these new won't babies as well as the patients and the wounded in northern gas on the equipment or something. we used to admit 500 to 600 babies a day into the hospital and now we had meant between 1001200 babies a day. yes, we noticed that old patients are showing signs of pay on this and a weakness. a 2nd, a picture is worth a 1000 words, even you bones or may see i did for you any solve it can pull clips in. in the past, every newborn baby would have their own box of milk animals. and today we can barely find a single box for the entire department. the majority of newborns we are treating today have to come out and had one hospital without parents. they were referred to us by shelters of the hospitals, and they are without the mothers. therefore,
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it's incumbent upon us to offer them food and medical care. the situation is absolutely catastrophic. we usually feed newborn babies every 2 to 3 hours. however, due to the limited supply, but with forced to feed them every 4 or 5 hours instead. and this to fix that weight height even though i didn't pull all the massage was but, but whatever milk we have is split equally amongst everyone. and this will definitely affects the baby's weight and the dental progress. additionally, given the poor health there and when they were admitted, they need a sufficient quantity of milk to support their immune system. and the current shortage prevents the babies from recovering properly, which means they have to one to go to treatment for a longer period of time. on the other person. usually once newborn babies have recovered, we give them small doses of know to try and gauged their health and find out if they recovering. well, yes. so however, given the unlimited supply, we're using a 10 percent glucose base solution to try and get them to stop crying. well,
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i'll get to possibly, i'm a esna. hi fi and i, they, i'm scheduled for my child. she has substitutes on the severe chest infection. and she's only $23.00 days old. she and this is on a multiple who not have a jimmy on at the desk, continues to haunt everybody here in northern johnson's babies and adults continue to stop you to the occupation preventing the entry off or leave. you really tell you medical aid including baby formula into a district and a city of just the all. so now that a whole lot spring and jonathan sila, he's a spokes person for audra. do you an agency that works with palestinian refugees that he joins us today? from alon jonathan overall has been coordinating 8 access for so many agencies on the ground. what is the situation when it comes to getting agent at the moment? well, it is extremely challenging. as, as illustrates as in the previous reports, the, the amount of 8 has is basically how since january, we need to get 500 trucks
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a day into the gaza strip simply to maintain an aid operation. that's not commercial traffic, that's $500.00 trucks of a. it's simply not happening and for a number of reasons, but this means that the population which is basically on lives of both is being deprived of essentials for that. she is valuable and you say it's hauled in the last month. what reasons are these ratings giving full that? are they saying it's administrative or they imposing additional checks? what are you hearing from them? it is a combination of factors. i mean obviously um, in any conflicts assessing the, the, the un adults with, with all parties involved to ensure that convoys a convoys can flow freely to get the, i, to people uh that need it. um, we have a combination we, we've had some blockages on the board. we've also had issues of safety within the cause of the strip. and also refusal of access noticeably to the north conditions
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have not made it simple to get to the north. but like a facilitation beginning column goes across the gaza strip is a huge problem. so bottlenecks arise inevitably and then nothing it is not getting in and it's not getting across the gaza strip either. jonathan, your agency on right has said that it might have to cease operations within weeks if the funding freeze is currently and placed on the bus. what would that mean? so it causes a infrastructure was it stands um, $2000000.00 people rely on support from under um, in the gaza strip, so that that's almost in time population. we're feeding over 1000000 ends. we have over 1000000 people in the around 150 under a shelters which before october was was school buildings. those are all massively over crowded. so basically, um, if we unplug and we unplugged the, i don't ration to those people and when you say attacks like we saw today in gauze
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assessing, can you perhaps give us a sense of the threats that you will stuff feel that they face and trying to do their jobs, there are so many thousands of them still active on the ground and the strength. there is some data. i mean we have so things house and stuff and goes and it runs free. thousands of them are able to continue working on doing things like logistics warehousing, getting convoys from, from a to z to ensure that deliveries can be done when possible. they faced huge, huge risks all the time and we've lost over 150 staff members killed in the school . and like the rest of the civilian population, they face immense risk going about that daily lives. i'm doing that you to given the passing of attacks and strikes that we've seen jonathan, do you add on or i believe that aiden for struck to is being systematically targeted by these ratings. it's, it's, it's, it's very, very, very hard to, to, to,
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to say that clearly. but what, what, what we, we do see in this floor is that the international humanitarian law needs to be applied to a subsidy essential, both in terms of the siege of some states needs to be lifted, but also the facilitation of idol variations on the grounds. and that's an obligation in any will for all parties involved and, and that needs to happen, jonathan. and in terms of trying to set up some level of accounts of it as a, do you have any hope that that might be able to happen, especially given the, the lack of access and tech trying to determine exactly what's happening on the ground. i really think at this stage our immediate focus is on trying to to make sure that the age continues to flow and gets the people that need it. so clearly issues of accountability to match. so that's that, that's, that's something um for um, entities independent of under uh to, to look to um in the future. but,
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but clearly um there are issues of huge concern and we need to make sure that it's not so the military law is spell it to the hills. jonathan, we just run a report with literally babies on dying because they didn't have enough to eat or drink in the north of the college district. can you characterize the situation for us at the moment and it wasn't garza obviously conditions on the ground or incredibly dia, should we expect this, this trend to continue? absolutely. we, we haven't been able to get some food into the notes since the 23rd of january. so for over a month. but already the note was the most isolated region of the gaza strip. the most restricted in terms of 8 operations. and i'm just wondering lustration that this fact was that when we were able to run a convoy in january, um we had some people coming to, to, to, to the convoy eating food on the spot. and dates, for example, when
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a bag of fire splits open when it was being unload, it's uh most of the crowds received it. um there were people scrambling in to try and pick up a file. um, we'd also have to pull to people grinding up birds each 2 weeks. um, another kinds of animal feeds. i think that those that those example speak for themselves when it comes to the situation. and of course, the lack of water. so a combination of like a food like a water inhibits it'd be that causes huge problems for the population that you mentioned a couple of anecdotes there about using bad seeing, you know, well animal feed, i understand that have been some issues around around health concerns around that a child got very sick and i believe like off the aging, some, some bridge that was made with, with animal feed. can you give us a sense of, of the health challenges that the people are facing on the ground as they try to, to think creatively about how to feed themselves and their families. but absolutely, i mean, i think they, they, these are cases which illustrates the, the level of the absolute desperation across the gaza strip and,
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and particularly in the north and by definition, when people are hungry, they're more valuable to these anyway, because immune systems a week um so we have we, we basically start to see a perfect storm and this means the farm and is looming. and you're safe on an as learning founding is happening in and pockets understanding and parts of the gaza strip. can you describe for us what that looks like on the ground because these are obviously 9 made conditions. it's absolutely is, as you rightly say, that this is a, this is a my, my disaster. this is not the product to the natural hazards. um, what's happening is that the pockets, as the pockets gradually expands and come together, we'd start to see if i'm in zone in that spot that, that that's a huge risk because we're not able to guess and we haven't been able to get in into the, the knows this month, so that means that it's very hard to assess, clearly the situation on the ground. but what we do see i'm from,
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from stuff that we have um who is, who is still able to operate. the able with the lack of access is exactly these kind of problems, but this is a disaster within a disaster, within a disaster and open gust we've just been talking there about the north. i'd like to ask you a little bit about the central and southern gaza to obviously, of the, the levels of restrictions on age. this is also a catastrophic situation for people in the south where people have been increasingly crammed into a tiny, tiny piece of land. how does the situation and, and rough on and that kind of area compared to what we're seeing in northern garza, precisely as you rightly say, people have been crammed into smaller and smaller area. um, because people have been displaced multiple times um from, for in the gaza. strip, kind of rolling down from the notes the sounds of since the world began. i mean just to, to look at the, the population data that they're currently about 1500000 people in rafa. about 6
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times the population before the stance of the war. now that means that shelters are massively over crowded, and it's just that, that this the scale of what, what is happening. and rafa is another illustration of the extent of this crisis. well, let me ask you, then we spoke a little bit earlier about what would happen if one right had to cease operations. and obviously that is a very real possibility, according to just senior officials that the un and what would that look like on the ground in rafa? if that were to happen right now. well, if you much in it, in a hospital setting and you imagine the live support system, um owner is the live support machine for, for uh, over a 1000000 people in rafa. um, if you unplugged the machine then the consequences uh extremely stock and i'm just but it is not slowing in and on roy's the, primarily the primary humanitarian organization on the ground and the, the,
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the risks of the food crisis, the health crisis. everything in rafa i'm was just going to be multiplied. you mentioned that that analogy is of unplugging a live support machine. that is essentially what's happening in hospitals across the gaza strip because of the lack of fuel. what is the fuel situation at the moment, especially as it pertains to, to help this other things? well, yeah, so that, that, that, that, that remains a problem that's been a problem since the beginning of the war. and we, we also have, um, i mean, beyond just fuel, i mean, even though i could say solar system, something like that. so, so that is a solar power. so it means that we have clinics withdraw pricing with no electricity. well, just imagine what it's like going to the hospital where there's no electricity, limited supplies, the level of care of that stuff are able to provide the kind of treatment is also my sickly restricted. and that, that, that means that people are not getting the help that they need in the direst of
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circumstances of aspects passing around the u. n. agency that works with palestinian refugees. thank you so much for joining us on al jazeera jonathan as well if you're just joining us here and i'll just hara, let's reach out to you the latest that we're hearing out of gauze, at least now 77 palestinians have been killed and we understand more than 250 people are injured off to is really forces opened fire on people who are trying to collect food aid and also city. although they were corresponding to is not our goal is in goal. so city with more so much about the b as we speak, hundreds of gaza civilians are still trying to recover the dead bodies of the relatives who were trying to get their hands on the aid being delivered. at the same time, the el cheapo hospital is no longer able to cope with the large number of victims. many of those victims were transferred to come all at one hospital in the north of the gaza strip. the number of dead will no doubt rise as other victims are rushed
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to all she fun. leslie and georgie and hospitals, ambulance vehicles cannot reach the area as the roads are totally destroyed. as the israeli forces open fire on the 8 seekers is really tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead bodies and injured all the victims rushed to hospital were carried by the hands of the relatives on seeing hospitals are no longer able to accommodate those huge numbers in the absence of fuel, let alone medicine, hospitals also ran out of blood. it's nothing short of a massacre. adding to this is the start of ation of civilians all across casa. it's a compounded war crime by the is really forces. the last i had here on elders here is on the 58 on the rise in the u. k. with more cases since the start of the school . and also to get back to us, we'll be fined or arrested. south korea's a striking junior doctor's face an end of the month deadline. the
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hello welcome to look at the international full cost of radiation. really should be coming to an end for indonesia. but then also we are still seeing big down pools 152 millimeters, a frame here in 24 hours the what's the weather transferring a little further east, which as we go through friday, still some heavy showers. the southern parts of the philippines, northern areas looking fine and dry, and it's just a few showers into vietnam. still a lot of hot and dry weather. they're across indo china as we go on. it's a saturday uh west. the weather will push up towards malaysia. so think here we'll see some live the showers. could see some localized studies still very unsettled across a good part of indonesia joining up with the ferry on settlement. and we have across northern areas, australia, down into the southeast, were seeing this cold front move out of the way, but as it pushed its way through both some incredible weather ran across passport
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ferry, in the west of victoria. so temple just getting up to 38 celsius, 100 empowered high on wedges. they off there, the space of 10 minutes. temperature dropped around 30 degrees is that cold front went through. you can see the cooler way. i'm making this way into that southeastern corner of stray leah 21 celsius and melton. as we go on through the, we can handle that some show us the for said me, i met with a, making his way for the east and the, the scars of the war. and you pray, run deep, but the devastation of the countries precious ecosystems may take the longest to hear people in power documents, the environmental impacts of the fight to and follows the premium for prizes investigators, as they collect evidence of what they described as eco side. ukraine, ground 0 on that,
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the jersey to the the you're watching out of here on a reminder about top stories this hour. at least 7 to 7 palestinians have been killed and move in 250 people are injured. off to is really forced, has opened fire on people trying to collect food. a in garza city without medical crews, civilians were left scrambling to transport them to nearby hospitals. most of them all out of service is really strikes targeting refugee camps across garza, including all new sarah. it's an average more than a 100.

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