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to al jazeera, the thought the holding was country dot to coal, palestine that the well to tie from thank you for joining us here until 12 to sarah . you've been focusing your attention in recent days on the nose of gauze. uh. can you just give us your impression of what your seeing right now and god, and city, and zip area states and by law? yeah. destinations. and these are all still populated areas where almost no building still stands. roads have been chita, a sewage is in the streets and there's very little clean water access to health care. it's almost impossible. there's no fresh food in the market. people dependence for their existence on age. and it's a,

a pretty diet place. value has changed immeasurably, just in the past month. since the last time i was there, it is so much more destroyed than it was. and yet people are still the people that haven't they returned, in fact, um and they are, they are living in the most incredibly difficult circumstances. at the moment. our best estimation is that around 302350000 people are still living in kansas city in the middle of the gaza strip. many of them over the past month were displaced from, for example, genario by 11 big log into garza city. and some of those people are drunk by now from garza city. but nobody is able to return from the south into gaza. the city itself and the nor um, but people, uh, you know, incredibly resilient. um they are normally steep right for that. also normally

traumatized the going back because they're on their places for them to stay. and so they've gone back to semi destroyed or in a heavily populated homes, but they're sharing with family and community. and it really is a very difficult place. what sort of difficulties and challenges of days facing a youth facing and trying to at least get you might say hot meals all the ingredients for hot meals to them. i mean, there's very little in terms of fuel which is coming into the jobs and strip what does come in is being utilized for things like patriots hospitals, to keep them running as regular to fuel during service times. so trucking is incredibly difficult, is one of the reasons why people are having to exist are much and i'm depend so much on cancer cause it needs the kentucky um, but you know, what does exist, whether it's trees that have been, uh, shopped down to, to, to to be bends um,

broken up uh, furniture and wood, some and buildings that have been destroyed. that's full, be used at people's homes to cook on. but it is, it's incredibly difficult uh for people. and what we've also found the policy is that in so many of those uh, families, uh, you know, again to share what looking like have. and we know that they are not getting enough in terms of, of the, of assistance to really get back to a healthy diet. and so while we see some improvement with increased a journey into the north, particularly in the past month, and we're just not seeing the dr. diversity, which is a serious challenge as, as, as we've mentioned. and people rely on, on getting to the few stand pumps that still exist. the bolts of thousands, the deliver of water into some of the neighborhoods of people been cute,

with their pockets on the journey tends to receive only a small portion of the amount of water that they need to survive each day. each day . there's almost nobody across the in charge of the gaza strip. it's getting 16 clean units of water a day, which is the absolute minimum. and people are getting a fraction of that. and it is a serious laurie. it's a public health care disaster waiting to happen. and it's hard to, you know, we're in the mid thirty's, in terms of centigrade and it will get worse as the summer goes on. and we'll, we'll talk about those a trucks and the age coming in and the issues around those pulled across things in a moment. but can i just talked to you about the word assignment? it's a word that's being banded around in the international community at the security council of the human rights council, within a capital cities across the middle east. but as a 1st hand witness, can you tell us all we really that close to the time and we have heard of incidence

of children dying where all we all not, some in sky, always a simon is a, is the most frightening would for somebody like me to have it here, the 25 years working in this role. so simon means that fail, finding means thousands of people are dying with hunger related deaths. and family means you can't start something from getting worse. finding means failure, and we all see is extreme. um, you know, forms of hunger, acute phones and hung up. so we are actually not seeing the famine that we were seeing as imminent a few months ago. mainly because so much food assistance has gone in and, but it doesn't mean people on suffering. it doesn't mean that the children, some children, i'm not dying from nutrition related death because that is happening. but what you're not seeing is that the norm is number. so suffering death because of,

of starvation. we are, however, still incredibly concerned because this is such a franchise situation. we've had a lot of assistance coming into the north side of the last 5 or 6 weeks. and we, we got a lot more than we were able to do with any of the, the 4 or 5 months before that. um, but it still needs to continue. it needs to be sustained and find them is not just about food. it's about nutrition. it's about health care, it's about clean water. it's gonna be full of those aspects and not dealt with that . could you please? appropriately we can get it can go back to big fat as it was. so we may have see an improvement. but boy, you got that his project, you talk about getting agent equitably, but that a, it has to come through specific, col, rentals, specific checkpoints that are all controlled by these, right? these do say the situation is go back to over the past few weeks, but that's

a small proportion of the 7 months war. the gall, since, and palestinians have been experiencing. so let's talk about the age of the paths, come in and the quantities, how many trucks have come in in the past 5 weeks on the, on the poll, paul tab or each compared to what should come in. this is instance of the noise we're seeing. you know, between a key and sometimes as many as a 100 shots of assistance coming in every day. which is so much better than when we were, we were trying to just get into double digits in january and february, march. but it's not, it's not enough. and it's not enough in terms of the diversity of the kinds of assistance it's needed. but can i interrupt the asked to why it will ask you that matthew wyatt smelting off. why it's not coming in lots of the reasons for those a trucks not getting into the knowles of gaza. i'm at the moment,

we're reliant on essentially one power to, to get into the northern garza and north of jobs. and that sort of the key entry point that actually at the entry point into the northwest. however, we actually once a need to have every charge or functioning assistance coming in from the know the central south. we need the assistance to, to come a multi set to requirements, not just food. we need the services to be provided, not just in time, a to be handed over. so there's a lot more that needs to be done. it needs an active was that we are constantly j e having to negotiate the access and navigate through what is the was i to get assistance to people that need not so incredibly complicated. it could all be much easier if there was a face 5, but we haven't had a sweet spot before we talked about the see sign about navigating

a into the causal strip. let's talk about the negotiations. you have 2 complaints before the age can ever reach those check points. it's reported that the un secretary general has been unable to speak to the israeli prime ministers since the beginning of this war. that is the top level of public 6. you also the down the packing order, how difficult is the job for you to negotiate with the israelis to get those a trucks and we're, i'm certainly very much down in the patch of motor. um, but yeah, i mean for us it's, it's a daily discussion and we're speaking with people at the various levels of these really are far to use. and these are the defense policies and the various components that they've created to coordinate. this is the entry of assistance um it's, it's trevor time consuming. it's incredibly hardwood. it's reliant on assistance . it's relying on patients and you know, for every success we have,

there are 3 phases of guarantee. but we try and we continue every day. might change and getting up every day at 6 am they get back from deliveries every day between 101112 p, m a, o, 12 and then in 5. and it's incredibly difficult. but we haven't stuff that we want to stop. what we do is use for this to be simplified, we need, we need that consistent volume delivery. if we're going to not just prevent the very worst of suffering, but actually turn this around and help people to get that much more closer to where they were before this twice. what is the difficulty? the matthew? is it the uh, genuine negotiation between these varieties and yourselves to get it through the border? is it the volume, all the numbers of trucks that kind of come through those border checks? or is it's an issue. it's security. once you've got those trucks into the cause

that strip, then you have to start thinking about the security of those trucks, the drivers and getting them to the locations that need the most. this shouldn't be a logistical process in terms of, of how the, of the constraints we face to deliver. and you know, there are roads where in nice submitted to radians, and we can, we can buy goods procured goods, easily across all sectors in this region for delivery. we're not talking about when i've already resolved areas, as, as in, in many countries i've worked in the past, it's about will and the will to enable and allow delivery uninterrupted into the areas. but there are those other constraints that you've mentioned. we don't have enough fuel some days to keep all of the trucks rolling across the district that we want to to move. we don't have enough fuel to keep a lot of the patriots running. we don't always have enough support. i'm from the local communities to get the commodities to be safe. and there is a huge amount of,

of a problem because of the issues we've had. we've had maybe 6 or 7 serious events this, this month to learn all of loosing of trucks that we've been trying to get. because the trim analogy is on the rise. there is a vacuum of law and order. the police, the police, the situation a 6 months ago don't exist today in the same numbers that they want to answer. every single move that we must across the street is difficult. and it's difficult for all of those reasons. so here's actually protecting you back to you in terms of you'll come voice and you'll pass. now all you'll person, i look full strength on how many have you lost during the war. protection is obviously a, a biggest concern for the people of the gaza strip. and we face many of the same

risks, the citizens themselves face we, uh, you know, we're where we are driving around and moving around and it was. and as i said, we tried very hard to make to notify and coordinate our movements to try and the conflict those movements. but you know, this is, is one of the most dangerous places. edward is around 208 was a big king in just a short period of this for a certain place, and that's an unprecedented number. he's a friends of ours is a people we work with colleagues from the world section kitchen colleagues from colleagues from the department of safety and security from the united nation system of people we know people that we've worked with. and if he's a very dangerous place, there is no simple onset to who protects the communities themselves. support us because they know we're here to help them and they try and help us a joy now with what we don't carry on. and we, we, we don't reflect back if it's,

if, if things are taken from those violently, we're just trying to do our jobs. but it is, it is unprecedented either because anywhere as difficult as this where we haven't had, for example, a peacekeeping force or un police force to support us. and we're getting close to that because the social fabric of the jobs a strip has been torn apart because of this will and because of the impact on this war, on communities and society. so you're trying to get food nutrition in volta 2 locations in northern gauze and across the cause and straight wherever you can. well, it's through reaction of palestinians to you when you turn up, either with a truck that is fully loaded for house load, it will even be looted. are they willing to listen to the problems that you face as the w f p. o. how they lost faith in the international age community?

i think it's a, it's a very percept in question. um, there's no doubt that with the trauma, the people are faced communities across the strip of face start of this last 7 months or more. and they are andrea international community there, andre. this was continued there. i agree. busy yeah, so all the political force in gaza has created, you know, dispossession displacement destruction at such a new own this levels. and it's been able allow to go on for as long as it's going on. so yeah, we see a lot of and we see a lot of trauma. we see a lot of mental health concerns that we recognize why we're here. ready and who we're here to help the most vulnerable the most needy, that those that don't have a voice, and the need our assistance. and we are constantly amazed by the support we do

receive from community leaders and communities themselves on the resilience. so they show in trying to help the neighbors or that pos neighbors on you neighbors, some in many cases because people have been displaced so many times when the last was receiving all my scenario whatsoever. and we would get in a once or twice, and i'm in a couple of weeks, a successful homeboy to get in. and there's, there was so much to see uh, so much on size and so much trauma. and so much desperation, the people would rush towards us as we literally trust a front line. and in many cases as they rushed towards best phone lines, they were fired them and fight on bar tanks brought on by the by machine guns. i mean, and yet they still came running and they jumped onto trucks to,

to possibly down and to the friends and the family and the communities. and it still be far on. some of them will be here and the full still people would come. i've never seen desperation like that in my life. i've never seen coverage like that in my life, but it's, it was needing to see. so there's just, that's at least an example of an incident that i don't think i've seen anything like that, anywhere else in the world. and i have never to have to see it again. and i have jostens never have to experience that ever again. you're an experienced field officer with the w. s. pay and you've operated in countries such as a yeah, been serious going just on iraq. saddam both north and south, i would say, is this any different from what you've experienced or what's all the different civil similarities with gaza? always gaus are so unique. you've never seen anything like this before. i think

there's an aspect of the, of the realities of thousands of different emergencies that i've worked in was that ins complex emergencies around the world. and what's really different here. ready ready that is such a small, densely populated. ready area where people, you know, at the beginning of this war, they run away from by law here they run away from them to god the city they run from god the city to minnesota and run from the set up to data. but they run from. busy from units to then from, from your use, the reference, always seeking a safe place. and now they're running back and those safe havens that exist and they were unable to leave. now i've worked in new training recently. i've worked in sedans. i've worked in syria, i've lived in afghanistan. what can you rack, you know, all of those operations people run away. it's across the board is an easy way to

find safety, with a long term for short term, and then return back to the place of origin. that's not happening and job gardens of stuck stuck inside this little strip of land. and they have been displaced, 56789 and 10 tons of every time it displays some part of the resilience has gone. it fades away, the people that they were displacement from the beginning with the community, with the neighbors. they no longer the neighbors today. there's not enough space for them to go back to the people that stayed in rochester for 5 months. they knew where to get water every morning, which kids enjoyed the year, which took kia, which kitchen to go to, to get a meal. they knew how to ensure that the child to get to a field hospital when they would sit. now they all knew again, and it all stops from scratch, they have to learn all over again, where they are,

who their neighbors, and whether they are site and, and, and the whole society around them is changed it. so it'll be difficult. and it's hard to get in there and the sewage in the streets and the, you know, the, the refuse call just as an been picked up. and since the war began rushing the slow, who's the stench? it's miserable. it could often be said that a picture contains a 1000 words and sometimes high ranking officials visiting a was a little conflict zone. can be a game changer, especially in places like syria or a rocco, or north and south to down. there is no access the scene, the a high level officials to actually enter golf. so you need is ready to mission to do that. so how important is it that there is a role full social media, a search to be able to explain the desperation that people face the in areas the even you call and get 6 as it is. it is shocking to me that there isn't

a free press and in the ability of the price to be here inside the gaza strip, to report as much as they should and should be able to do on what's happening here . and that's one of the reasons why social media is, i'm sorry for my citizens themselves to have access over on my teaching access, most of the time to some kind of connectivity to share messages and tell us store. ready and tell the world that face and why that is so important. but again, you know, that day, i think, i think that would be a big change and a much faster change if there were stories from the full manner of, of media outlets coming out here. from the right to the left. and so everybody's taste to be to actually. busy be accommodated and they could, they could listen to those like trust people, not always trust the media to that, that they get access to. but they mark trust the media that they've always watch

those outlets on here, those, those agendas aren't being allowed to come in. but should be allowed to come in and, and i think that would make a massive difference to more here in gaza, but anywhere in the world of knowing and being able to trust what you're seeing objectively is side critical. is it desperate? it's depressing. what goes through your mind when you see politicians talking, the tools, but not really walking the walking to help the people that you are on a daily basis. anymore is just the failure of a political process. i'm a few minutes here and i do have to, i have to be to be aware of political sensitivities and the politics behind any situation. but that's not my focus. my purpose, our 5 percent you minutes. arrogance is, is reaching the people in the braces to meet with the assistance when they needed

with the right for assistance and helping to ensure that their voice is fast. um, so that we can actually improve the situation, save their lives, perhaps even change their lives to better when we chat. but obviously it's critical to, you know, there are discussions around human rights and protection. the international humanitarian law politics around finally the ceasefire solution, the compromise ensuring that the hostages are released and ensuring that the ceasefire comes and storing the jobs and start have to suffer anymore. these are all critical discussions and needs to happen. it's been often said that when people say salvation, you can't just throw food at them and hope everything's going to get better. it is a process that quite requires medical experts to help those that are being affected the most through those solve ation symptoms to get back to full health and for that

you need not just medicine, but you need the medical practitioners as well to help you distribute that food a, as the, there's no question you, you taught fix a situation that has come as acute as the one we see today. overnight it takes time and it takes, it takes professional understanding of how to provide that support. i mean, it's always, you know, critical to recognize, as i said, it's not just about food and nutrition. it's about water. it's about healthcare. it's about, you know, enabling environment too. so that people sleep and you're safe and we can deal with the trauma or in the mental health concerns. and then we can actually make sure people have shelter and i'm, i'm supposed to, around them to, to, to, to recover. it's about changing. what is the current level of, of, of destruction i'm starting to rebuild, and that's gonna take decades,

children of today, tablet as of today, then i will throw up and say that the lessons will grow up and out. and they full size trauma. but most people in the world can ever imagine a many of them have not had enough nutrition to grow up as healthy as they should. and some of them will be permanent. these jobs from that physically and mentally. and this is going to be the greatest challenge as we move forward. so it must be, i just want to ask you to give our international audience the name of one person that you've met, that you've seen and you've dealt with his story, hold, see, even keeps you awake at night because i can't believe you can stay in gauze for this amount of time and not be affected by at least one story. this is probably a 1000. ready to be honest, i'm, i'm in a little boy today, i'm not going to get his name. and so i, i was talking to outside of basically we'd help to, to. ready and i asked him what he ate today and said,

we had some bread yesterday and he said he had some bread which large me enormously because this is a place scenario. shouldn't be receiving assistance, but isn't receiving as much as they should yet. and i asked him what his dream was, what i was expecting, i said, because i, i just talking to him about what i, what do we want to go off and be, what's your dream? what do you really want us to reading wishful? and he said to me and said he wished he had vegetables and me so what single message then? you think from that little boy to the international community it's, it's uh, this will last and i think everybody with compassion and empathy and police and kindness in that house knows we have to have

a suspect. it has to stop. now the hostages have to go to the families who are scared for very well need to also know the fact that their loved ones are back to and this was for let's say, if it does very soon to the name of it matthew, holding with country director for palestine full the well food program. thank so much for talking 12 to so the the latest news for the findings here could be used by the international criminal court has further pieces of evidence of israel's war crimes and gaza with detailed coverage. most of the 36 hospitals in golf, i have been destroyed, disclose it, go health costs remain in accessible from the house of the story. the images from

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