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color welcome to the program i made for you. i'm sending an israel has used some of the well as most advanced weapons supplied by the richest nations, to kill and named tens of thousands of people in gusts of most of them children. but the wrong path is way of as little slip in using some of the oldest and most lethal weapons of wolf at siege install vacation to target. all those in the strip and organization set up by the us government, the firm and early warning systems network or fuse net says the people in parts of guns that will soon face firm in conditions like of medicine. so health system velocity destroyed by as well, along with satisfaction of water supply networks and dia, living conditions, of course, a catastrophic health crisis in gaza. the population has been so that we can find multi attrition with insults, nursing mothers, children and the elderly most affected. so how bad is the situation right now, and is it west name that is israel deliberately using starvation as a war tactic?

but also, i guess these question shortly, but 1st report from, sorry, go amol lips with her family in this makeshift shelter and gaza. there is no one around the surrounded entirely by the rustle on the quiet or every day she sends her children to search. the suit allows the collection of all children leap every morning at 8. so i teach a q at the food distribution point where they must wait until noon. if they can bring back food, we'll have to knock. if not, we must leave it to fight the suit distribution of desperation. thousands of children squash together, holding out empty bows, wasting for anything that might stay within the city, is that the reality to civilians in the street when life has become

a constant battle to suffice, allow me for the suffering with everything. there isn't a flower, sugar, oil or anything in the house. we do not want to eat. we only want to feel the children. if the children 8 that is enough, they are all in the house crying. we came here but we didn't get anything. the part is mc d u n, who owns the entire population of god that is facing crisis lessons at honda? that's 2300000 people. humanitarian agency say no. the state is guessing into the territories before the war around $500.00 trucks from each day. but it looks on the pool that since october, the 12 trucks have entered the news. in may, the international court of justice accused is route of using salvation as a weapon or something palestinian softer with every day,

but is really authorities denali remaining to us, which is a good idea to let the assistance gets into the goods. if people are looking to war against 1st, then people when war again from us on top of the hunger, there's a scarcity in health care. most hospitals in gaza, i'm no longer able. so pray officers ready to attack. others can only function porsha me that needs thousands of palestinians struggling to survive, that wins illnesses amount, nutrition. the consequences of the in which no man woman, no child is fed. sorry, go, i'll just sarah the inside story. bully us organizations saying that funding levels of evidence in northern gauze, as we mentioned earlier, is the from an early warning systems network, a fuse net setup in 1985. it lists it's partners as us government organizations and

agencies such as the department of agriculture, nasa, and the us geological survey. it's concluded the depths from starvation unlikely to pos levels classified as freshmen in northern garza. as soon as january. but from an early warning system network says that unless israel allows more aid into an old and goes up to 15 people a day, will die of starvation related illnesses. as early as january. i'm gonna tell us a threshold for fun that is considered to be 2 or more deaths a day. put 10000 people. the u. n. says the o 8 has been blocked from entering northern garza once again with only 12 trucks able to deliver food and 4. so since october, however, the findings came under attack from the acting us on the backs of the israel, who questioned the organizations methodology fused at now says, but it's a load is on the further review. this is expected to be re released with updates of data and analysis in january the. let's bring it out. guess what diamond is the founder

of international network for a relief and assistance she joins us from homes. need. gordon is professor of international law, a queen mary university in london. he joins us from london. we hoped to have had a guest from the world food program, but they withdrew just before we began recording this program anyway. and they have a welcome to both you. i will its not with you your a frequent visits to god, god. so give us some idea as to what conditions are actually like right now on the ground in terms of food security. there is no security. adrian, i was in guys uh, earlier this month actually, and when we say there is no food security, by that i mean that families can't feed their children fresh fruits or vegetables. they don't know where their next meal is going to come from us. we are talking about a source of protein, there is no sources of protein that people can even buy on the market. if we're

talking about something very basic like flour, there has been for weeks now a flour crisis in central and southern garza that has been so severe so dire that in some instances, people are trying to get bread from the bakeries are being crushed to death and those people have been children and women, and what 8 organizations have have to do now is try to prioritize the few trucks that are permitted entry into gaza into making sure that they're only carrying flower. what this means is that critical items such as one tries ation. obviously, temperatures are freezing cold right now and gaza. those items are not being entered at this point because a priority is being given to flower. you can go to any hospital in gaza and you have children who are injured, who are not sealing from their injuries because their bodies are not strong enough to fight off infection. and that is because they are quite simply not getting

enough nutrition. and just to maybe put this into a different sort of perspective, i spent a month in gaza. i can afford to a certain degree, the crazy price is on the market, but the thing is, is there is nothing to buy. so even if someone does actually have the means such as myself, let's, let's be very upfront about that. i was still only eating one meal a day because that's all you can actually find. and i was actually able to bring in food with me prior to my trip move. israel continues to insist that is doing nothing wrong or that it's fulfilling its obligations on the international law. is israel using starvation as a weapon of war? are definitely i think we also need to look at the history of its use of fluency and security and starvation for style. the current on this is, well, what we're seeing now is

a kind of cumulative situation. but actually since israel occupied because of stress in 1967, it has been using food and food in security as a tool of management. the control of the stylus, the young people. we have tables of the israeli government showing that it calculates the amount of calories that, that allows to enter the causes and keeping them because of strep regular theory. it's not just the cycles of violence bite under the right above the catastrophe level. and then in each cycle violence and certainly there's a bit less oh now trish and spikes. now that was before 2000 or 124-2023 in october, 2023 these way the government said very. ready clearly that the wants to use

food as a weapon or in order to defeat from us. but what it actually is doing is using for the war in order to about 700 colonialism in order to empty the northern gaza strip of this brilliant population. so the jewish settlers, it's, it's competent genocide to say, i think israel is committing genocide in the gaza strip. i think that most human rights organizations above where they reach that conclusion. most international lawyers about ready to reach the conclusion. i mean to the international court justices and that it's possibly genocide. alrighty. back in january and we're almost a year later where the situation is much, much more grand and then it was jack all way. you're touched upon it

a few moments ago. what to solve ation. do, in particular it's a young bodies in terms of normal mental health and physical development. it completely henders that, you know, i mean, think about a baby and, and how quickly they, they're growing and their oregon's t vital organs are developing. they cannot develop properly if they're young. the bodies are not getting the nutrients that they need. children who are malnourished are much more susceptible to disease and illness. and on top of that, we have the very severe war, catastrophic war injuries that are taking place. look, when i was in gauze i went up to cause a city and i was visiting this one malnutrition center and they had one child who was there, a little boy. his leg was amputated, his foot was partially amputated, and he had been some

a entered into the malnutrition center which was very small. it only had a few beds because his body wasn't able to properly fight off the infection. it was to week and i was speaking to his mother and she said that, you know, her son had asked her one day for a banana. and she obviously knows that bananas are packed with nutrients. so she went out and tried to find him one on the market. was that banana costs $25.00? she put in a for that and the bed right next to this little boy was a little girl who had actually been injured up in northern gauze as she was at come all are gone. hospital which, you know, has been besieged and bon numerous times. and she wasn't feeling and she was emaciated. her legs were so skinny, the, the tens and rods holding them together were sicker than her leg itself. her father took a great risk to transfer his daughter to gaza city. and i say her father had to take this risk to transfer his daughter to gaza city because ambulance transfers are not

being facilitated by the israelis. so we have to do this on the back of an ambulance because doctors warned him that if his daughter wasn't able to get the nutrients that she needed, she was not going to feel she was going to die from infection from the injury. and that death would have been brought on effectively by malnutrition, by starvation, you have examples like this through out the gaza strip, the most vulnerable are children, children who are injured, and then children and adults of preexisting medical conditions. i met a number of kids who have cerebral palsy and they are barely breathing at this stage in, in these tennessee, you know, their parents are beside themselves. they don't know what to do. one mother i was talking to was saying that she was boiling some rice and water and feeding for sun rice water because that was all that they could find nothing about what is happening and gaza right now makes any sense whatsoever. and you can spend as

little as an hour and gaza, and i promise you, adrian, you will not leave garza without being fully convinced that this is the delivery extermination of a population to have as an occupying power board obligations that as well have under international humanitarian law, how has it managed to continually float those obligations to violate mean, the basic conflict obligation of an occupying power is to protect the civilian population. and so israel is actually doing the office in israel from day one as target to the civilian population in the gaza. strip, making all kinds of claims to the combatants, use them as human shields and all kinds of billing. as you've said, in the beginning, we're getting close to 50000 people. but at the same time,

it has been using every mechanisms in the folk problem destroying costs. tools and all other nice saving and life sustaining institutions and because of strength, whether it's water, whether it's the production of food in the gaza strip except truck to basically star the population and render them docile to do with ever israel wants them to do. and if they don't, as, as it has been said, they will die. so it's a policy of extermination in, in violation of the law. i mean, violation of the spirit of the law that says that the occupying power is responsible for the well being of disability. and population, and so civilians are targeted by israel and they want i just want to play

a clip navient you talked about it brought at the beginning of the program. israel is full of defense, but it's so you'll have kalonde. harvard graduates does not want it for war. crime is by the in special criminal court. said this at the outset of the war. i don't know what the living looks old slot tells us. i have ordered a complete siege on the gaza strip. there will be no electricity, no food, no fuel. every thing is closed. we have flashing human animals and we are acting accordingly. they've thought showed intent right from the outset and it slide to them. and as we said, the in special criminal court, is there any indication of his ready policy changing? what is that the legal definition of using food as a weapon of will be the actual legal, differently sure is using, depriving people or civilians of objects. if the center of this bible, including willfully impeding relief supplies and using starvation of

civilians as on both sides of warfare and israel as use as the dialect just said. but it's not only all on several ministers upset. similar uh, things like god on intentionally decided to use food as a weapon of war, which is a crime. of course, what we're saying now why you are over a year later is it's not the 1st station now as, as has been said, it's the, operates differently federal bullet, the bullets kills people immediately. well, that is a to process. so that we're, we're now in to the effect of this process where every day people are dying of famine. but this is no, nothing compared to what we will see if the israel does not stop it's policies and according to

a is really human rights organizations filed an appeal way back in march against the israeli government, asking the court toilet to, to the demands the to be allowed to enter the gaza strip. the court has yet to 9 over 9 months later, but israel has a method to the court and it's response. but it does is delivering sufficient about the food. if it does not deliver food on the jewish holidays, it has to be remembered the approximate to be on average for the trucks per day to out october or november well before the siege began before october 7th, 500 trucks, right? and the gaza strip had that time, also to own capacity to be in prison population. so

today we are in this way of shipping where people are, are dying, they lee and some of the in depth on coming, not in a few months, but it will be as a result of what is happening today. well, what obstacles has as well put in an hour as way as you, as you try to help the people have gossip a look, there are multiple obstacles that we keep trying to circumvent. but there really 2 key ones. the 1st is what is actually being clear to get into guys are right now the average wait time for a truck is roughly $74.00 days. the other issue is moving the humanitarian items from the crossing planes with cat. i'm shutting them or cut them up beside them as it's known, being the main one further into gaza and that is where we keep coming across the looting of the criminal activities that are taking place that are basically meaning

that the aid is getting lost and know this is not being carried out by how much these are criminal gangs that are operating in areas that are fully under israel's control. there are areas that are designated or red zone. these are areas that we can only move through our trucks can only move through after very lengthy and careful coordination would be as rarely cited after receiving a green light from the as rarely side. we have repeatedly repeatedly, been asking for either alternative routes that are more secure or for israel to secure the route to it is designating for our use. we have also been asking to be able to use some sort of protection for the convoys. however, on the few occasions where 8 organizations have attempted to use the remnants of gauze as police force to protect the convoys, they have been bombed. there have been efforts earlier in the year to try to also use the police force to secure the route that again is role designates for our use

. they have been bombed. the other challenge that we face is what we can actually move with in the gaza strip. and this is where we really move into kind of the realm of the absurd. so let's go back to talking about flower and the fact that there was a severe shortage and central and southern gaza. 25 kilogram bag of flour and southern and central as us costs, roughly $700.00 to $900.00. obviously it is completely on affordable, but here's the crazy part. is in gaza city itself. that same bag of flour costs you roughly a dollar and a half to $2.00. because israel is letting flour into gaza city, but it's only letting flour and 2 guys of city. so in gaza city there's plenty of bread to eat. but very little else in southern and central 0 bread, 0 flower, very little that's affordable on the market. and we 8 organizations are not

permitted to move flower, for example, from garza city to the rest of the strip. and so you've got layer upon layer upon layer of these like ridiculously upstart challenges that you keep trying to, you know, jump mental hoops around. and it's just, it, it really feels like it's a situation that's being made so deliberately impossible to try to force 8 organizations to somehow just give up. except none of us are willing to give up. we're not going to give up leave. we talked earlier about the us organization, the funding from an early warning system network, saying that unless is real allows more agents, northern garza, up to 15 people a day, will die of starvation on an alternative pressure on the coast farm and considered to be 2 or more depths today, put 10000 people as girls are already suffering from it. why, why that a page about the use of that would? is it perhaps a, a statistical issue in the it's, it's hard to pin down actual numbers in gaza due to the logistical problems

around gathering data. so there are several issues here. one is evidence. israel does not allow foreign journalists to enter the causes it, it does not allow several fact finding mission the causes, want her up the up it so. and so with that has been strategic policy, isabel since day 12, if you wish to match the israel is cavalry. now famine in northern gods, i've been, according to its own laws, it cannot same weapons to conduct the 8th, this new sum. starvation is okay. so the us itself is kind of a by supplement. so agencies are straight to be straight forward

and seeing what they see and they're saying, hey, israel is carrying out starvation and using it as a weapon against i was giving you an authorized hey. but before we get to this then we, we can continue to support israel like we want to support and have been supporting it since october 7th. and therefore we cannot just miss it. and we think there's sufficient evidence and there isn't sufficient cause as recalls on allowing b. what is important for you to understand is that there is a logic here from the very beginning. and that is a set for colonial logic whereby is a wants to displace and replace the population in nor the gaza. and the weapon that it is using to do that to as likely plans go from one 3rd of the guys strip is starvation. and that is now very clear,

even though israel's try to stop evidence from x, because it's all while you say that in our is not going to give up all the right organizations. i'm not going to give up either. what's your message right down to the international community? indeed, the world watching this program. i think if you're watching and you're not absolutely appalled and sick and not just by what you're hearing by, but by what you've been saying over the last 1415 months, you really need to ask yourself why. and we also need to collectively ask ourselves how is that we have permitted this to continue for this long beside reality is that nothing that was said during this program? has it not already been said time and time again over the course of the last year? i feel like i'm constantly on rinse and repeat, looking for words to add an extra level of urgency to what it is that i'm saying,

except those words do not exist every single time i go to gaza and i've been there 4 times now i keep thinking to myself, it can't quite possibly get any worse. and yet somehow it does. and you see the tool that this is taking on people beyond the bombs and the bullets and the physical injury. you see it. and the way that they move the way that they carry themselves the way that their faces are just almost devoid of expression, the way that their eyes are dead ends the way that you can't barely coax a smile out of a child because people are psychologically exhausted. but they're also physically exhausted, and they are hungry when you meet up with your crew in the morning, for example, the conversation isn't hey, how are you? it's hey, what did you eat last night? you know this, this idea of hunger and starvation of permeates every single fiber of your being getting food for yourself and for your family. be ads on an extra level of strain

and toll on to everybody. and it is beyond being sort of a stain on our collective humanity that we have allowed the situation not just to deteriorate, to this point, but actually to continue this law. we must stand by thanks to both our diamond and leave gordon to thank you for watching. don't forget you can see the program again at any time by going to the websites of elders 0 dot com for the discussion. you can join us about facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash h a inside story. and of course you can join the conversation on x on handle the a h a inside story for me, adrian finnegan and the team here in doha bye. for now, the god promised abraham, this is the land that is going to belong to you and to your children forever. more right here in my back yard sales. american recent here,

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