>> this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. the palestinian general strike has been held in occupied territory in israel but ended in violence and bloodshed. israeli security forces fired live ammunition. four people were killed and more than 160 injured. israel's continues its bombardment of gaza. 218 palestinians have been killed. the u.n. is calling forprovide d

humanitarian aid to gaza. a convoy international aid trucks roll in, but israel suddenly closed the crossing again citing security issues. >> it is critical that the crossing is open for the entry and exit of critical humanitarian staff. humanitarian access into and out of gaza to ensure safe movement in gaza. overnight, we received reports of additional infrastructure being central covid-19 testingab and other health and humanitarian facilities. we continue to receive reports of significant displacement of palestinians. >> the u.n. security council calling for a cease-fire. president macron has used a

major summit to push peace. jordan's king of dolla joined by video link. spain facing a diplomatic and humanitarian crisis after more than 6000 migrants cross from morocco. it is the largest single day influx into the area. india's daily coronavirus death toll has reached a record high of more than 4300 fatalities reported on tuesday. the number of new infections continues to fall, however, many believe that less testing is being done. those of the headlines, we will talk after today's "inside story." ♪

>> dozens of palestinians killed, hospitals overwhelmed, and water and food supplies are now running out. people in gaza are reeling from israeli airstrikes. what can be done to secure aid for thosecrisis he stopped. this is "inside story." ♪ >> welcome to the program. it is a region that has been besieged for decades and where living conditions were already died. after more than a week, gaza is on the brink of a deepening humanitarian crisis. more than 212 palestinians have been killed with 61 children. hospitals are overwhelmed and

running low on medical supplies. u.n. schools are with thousands of people who fled for their lives, and clinics have been damaged. water, power, and food are in the short supply. existing aid will only last a few days and they are appealing for help, but reaching people in need has been a struggle on the ground. children who have survived to these attacks have often lost a parent or relative. our reporter on the growing emotional and physical toll they face. reporter: for seven hours, the six-year-old was trapped under piles of rubble. her home was hit by an israeli airstrike in gaza. her mother and four siblings died. in hospital, she reunites with her father. they hold hands, facing a new life without their family.

>> i was filled with all of the anger of the universe, but when i heard that one of my daughters was alive, i said, thank god, because this girl might capture some, even a little of my other daughters smile. reporter: there is not much room for innocence and gaza. playtime is cut short for the sisters when the sounds of fighting come too close for comfort. >>[speaking non-english language] reporter: their father made youtube videos that were widely shared on social media to distract his kids from the violence. days after this recording, he died in an airstrike. this boy lost his home. he holds back tears, trying to recover some of his belongings. amid the wreckage, a moment of joy for these children who managed to save their pet fish. but experts fear these fleeting

moments may soon be replaced by long-term trauma. >> my older girl is seven years old and she looked at me and said, does god really feel what we are feeling now? of course, i answered her, but i started thinking, what is the mental and emotional state that she is going through at this point to be asking such an existential question. >> the depths of loss can be overwhelming, especially for children. >> i don't even know what to do. i get scared, that there is really that much. i would do anything for my people, but i don't know what to do, i am just 10. >> as bomb strikes nearby, this girl praise to drown out -- prays to drown out explosions. susie will recover from her

physical injuries, but it is the emotional scars that may require long-term attention. ♪ >> before we go to our guests, let's get the view from the ground there today. we can speak to roger in gaza, and she is a teacher and also the mother of five children. raja, thank you for being with us during what is a difficult time. let me start by asking you, how are you and how are your family ? raja: i am not well, we are not ok. living in this constant fear and horror is not making anyone ok. imagine yourself being terrified all the time of being bombed or killed or losing any of your beloved -- this is not really something that anyone would love to experience. >> can you describe for me what

a day looks like for you and your children -- how are you spending your hours? raja: the day, during the day, it seems to be a very short time, when the sun rises, until it goes down, it is a short time. we don't file. when the night comes, it is like thousands of years, because -- each minute passes, we feel it like an hour. we are terrified by the bombings. they really target all of the palestinians in gaza, mostly at the night, as a way of terrifying kids. they know it is darker, we have no electricity or any light, so they target us in the night, to spread horror among the children, among us as mothers, among everyone. during the day, we are trying to

act normal, do our normal things , but we can't help being worried all the time. we are just in constant tourer, basically -- constant horror, basically. >> what are your biggest worries, it is the airstrikes, or potential food shortages? what is your main concern? rajaa: i live in the deceased gaza,e have been in a blockade for about 15 years with food shortage, water shortage, no electricity -- i am not worried about any of those things. i am worried about one day i will just wake up and i lose one of my kids. i don't care about myself either, i just don't want to lose any of my kids. i want to tell you something that every single family in gaza does now, they all sleep at the

same place at night. we gather ourselves and sleep at the same place, you know why? so sad to say but i will say it anyway -- because we don't want to wake up like some of us are alive and the others are dead. we already die come all of us -- we all die together, nobody has to live. i do it, i gather my children and put them around me and sleep so that i can feel them all around me without being worried about them in the rooms. >> i am so sorry to hear that and to hear about what you have been going through. rajaa in gaza telling us about what has been happening. thank you for being with us and we wish you and your family all of the best. thanks again. rajaa: thank you.

>> the ongoing violence has completely disrupted the lives of many palestinians in gaza. more than 52,000 have been displaced after israeli airstrikes wrecked at least 450 buildings including hospitals. the power supply has been limited to around six to eight hours a day. 2/3 of the population was already suffering from food shortages before the latest attacks. an extra 32 million dollars to provide aid for palestinians is what is needed for the next six months. water scarcity and unsanitary conditions could lead to another surgeon covid-19 infections. only five percent of people and palestinian territories have been vaccinated. let's bring in our guests. in gaza, we have the director of gaza operations for the u.n.'s palestine relief agency. an occupied jerusalem, one dr.

with doctors without borders. and a professor at the doha institute for graduates studies. welcome to the program. i want to start with you, what has happened with one of your clinics in gaza but thankfully, no casualties. they said that they were targeted and two doctors were killed, i believe, in the last round of deaths over the last day or so. do you and your colleagues feel like you are being targeted? >> thank you for having me. we cannot say that we were directly targeted in this bombing, but we can vary directly say that all of our clinics, this includes residents , offices, clinics are under the knowledge of the israeli defense

forces, so they they know the et locations, so even if they are not targeting us, they know very well that they could damage or hurt anybody within our clinics with any bombings that occur near or at them. the clinic that you make reference to has been rendered initially not functional, and an normal day where would have been operational, it would have hurt people in the waiting room, not to say the people around it, and that same bombing in which we were not attacked but two doctors died. >> your agency looks after more then five point 5 million palestinians and how are your facilities holding up? >> we are under severe pressure at like the population, and we are in the eighth or ninth day

of war. to me it feels like a full-scale war and we have had our installations affected, so early this morning at 6:00, i am talking to you from my office where i am currently sleeping. we had a massive explosion strike just across the road, 50 meters away, and that further damage the perimeter if you walk through our compound, you will see lots of the debris lying around, and i went into one office where there was a big stone underneath the desk whi came flying through the roof and if the colleague who works at that desk, if she had been there she would have been killed. and that the school where the sum of the 50,000 plus people are seeking safe haven and some of the solar panels were hit, so it is hitting us direct leave. the bigger drama is the life of people. we have had more than 50

children killed since this started and 18 of them at least were children at our schools. it hits home very directly. a senior colleague of mine had her sister and the daughter of a sister killed in an airstrike. there are many dramatic stories to be told behind this, and i have gotten messages like we heard from rajaa people feeling absolutely terrified, sleeping together so they can die together if that needs to happen. this is a state of war. this has to stop, we have to have a cease-fire. the crisis is unacceptably high. >> just hearing from mattias about the children. i do want to ask you, talking about how this has impacted the children, schools and shelters have been reduced to rubble.

how do you think that shapes a generation and their politics? >> this is a really important question, because, this is not stopping today. this has all started back in 2007 when israel imposed a very strict blockade on the gaza strip. what we are seeing today is a continuation of the policy that started over 15 years ago, and this is raising a generation of students who are not in touch with the rest of the world, there are people who hardly leave the gaza strip, and the crossing is closed most of the time, so their life has been shaped by this environmental conflict. what we are saying, this is not also the first war we are seeing, there was another one in

2014, another one and 2009, and in addition to all of the other incidents of assassinations and killing, and no leaving the gaza strip as being a part of this reality. this is definitely concerning of what we are seeing a generation being raised in such an environment which shapes their thinking and their views of the world and their views of how the world is responding to the crisis at the moment. >> you are mentioning the crossing and the blockade and i want to take a look at a map of gaza. it only shares land borders with egypt and israel and crossings there are limited. there are only three as you can see. israel controls two of them, but they are very difficult to get. the injection government has recently reopened the raffa

border crossing, that is the main point and that has been used to send food to the palestinians. on tuesday, israel said it would open the crossing to aid, but that is only for goods. as of tuesday, it has not opened the other crossing for people and humanitarian staff. it has been more than a week sent to closed that border. the u.n. was very vocal for calling for these crossings to be opened and has criticized how long it has taken saying it was very difficult to hardware is handled back during the 2015 gaza war. matthias, i will ask you to respond. how is it different? matthias: i was not here in 2014, but my understanding is that in the early couple of days, there was an agreement between hamas and israel that there would be humanitarian

corridors, so both with and gaza, there would be a lull in fighting where people could move to do some shopping and where humanitarians could do our job and get to our installations and so on, as well as humanitarian crossing corridors across the border to bring in people and goods to move some people out. this is not day 8 or 9 and we have not had this opening. some fuel trucks came in, but fuel trucks were turned around and we have not been able to bring in search capacity and that includes medical personnel to help at hospitals but also over -- other people to help with security and other matters. the most important impact of all of this will be soon running out of food, running out of fuel. we heard earlier that there is a little electricity, but the elecicity will be down even further and of course, essential

food supplies, we will see the population suffering even more than it already is. >> talking about food supplies and potential shortages, i am curious, it is not just about access to food, right? the world food program is worried that prices are going to skyrocket as long as there are shortages, and i imagine there are not just economic ramifications but also in terms of anger and desperation within the community. how will that play out? juan: we usually talk about this type of crisis that unfolds in the moments in which the bomb start going down and after the bombs still persist, and people, the survivors still have to live with a war-torn country and society in which most of its support and structures both social, medical, and otherwise have come undone after so much pressure both from knob vacation

-- the occupation and bombardments. so people are left in survival mode and this brings about reactions that are in alignment and this anger at the forefront at times, but knowing the palestinian population, there is also a surprising amount of forgiveness and wish for life, which is to push on. >> i am curious, and your mind as you watch this play out, what do you thinks -- think israel's strategy is here? some of these, are they targeted attacks and is this collateral, and how is hamas viewing all of this as they see the suffering around them? ibrahim: we ar seeing a number of things to answer your question about israel's policy, dealing with the crisis and gaza. the first thing we are seeing is a collective punishment that is

using as pressure on hamas and all of the other political factions to surrender basically. we have seen the collective punishment that is targeted, the collective punishment of places like the towers that have been bombing, including one of the towers that is housing media outlets like al jazeera and the press, which is totally -- nobody understands why israel would target something like that knowing that there are no military targets in these places, and also, the international media has spoken out about this, but israel is not listening. and it is being displaced in these places, they have no place to go to, and again, as a

pressuring tool in order to punish the entire gaza strip, the factions -- we are also seeing targeted of the military targets, political military leaders also, that they are targeting in a number of places and they were able to assassinate a number of the hamas military leaders. the fact of the matter again is that we are seeing the entire 2 million people being under very strict blockade and being bombarded indiscriminately in order to achieve certain military and political walls. that has with israel unable to achieve anything because now we are seeing the continuing fighting and response from hamas

on the same exact place. >> i am going to stop you there because i want to bring the conversation back to the aid and humanitarian situation. the politics is ongoing and that fighting looks set to continue for some time. i want to focus on the politicized nation on the aid aspect and meant -- humanitarian aspects. matthias, i know that your agency has been underfunded for many years. i believe the biden administration has pledged something like $150 million just last month, but that is premised on a policy of neutrality and i know your agency faced criticism from the european parliament just a few weeks ago or what they described as teaching and disseminating hate speech and encouraging violence within your schools. i would like to ask you to respond to that and also reflect on the political situation and how it is shaping the way your agency actually functions.

matthias: let me respond directly to the specific point of a speech -- us preaching racism and anti-semitism in are 285,000 children. there is no evidence for that, that is an unfounded allegation. i have not met a single visitor who has gone to our schools, who has come away not impressed with the quality of the education, but also with the mindset and attitude of the children. that is one point. over this last year when we were in covid, so often in lockdown and children are learning at home, the british council awarded 45 of our schools and international school award, and three elements of that as they assessed that was international understanding and promotional speech.

as we are talking, a young girl's poem is exhibited in a u.s. national park. i think the politicization has to do with not recognizing that the u.n. actually provides a unique opportunity for 285,000 children to be exposed to international law. we are trying to turn them into some kind of global citizenship, and if that gets destroyed, then we will lose big time and it links to an earlier question in terms of impact on younger generations. we need to maintain under these difficult circumstances. >> i will give you the last word and as an aid agency representative with your offices and clinics in gaza. we know that things are really tough in hospitals, we know that there is blood that has been on the ground, fuel that has been on the ground and as an organization that is working with people in gaza right now,

what is your message to israel and your message thomas. -- message to hamas? juan: to stop the bombardments, and to allow help to come in. we have been the whole day expecting on standby to come into gaza, and we are coming in with surgeons, with nurses, with equipment and material. we need to get this to the people as soon as possible and we need to be able to assure that people can access our clinics. we need to be able to persist on our usual task. we need to be able to provide people access to surgeries and usual services and usual health to some mental health support to just overall care by their own society and by organizations that would be pushing all of this time to stand side-by-side >> >> with the palestinian

population. >> thank you to all of our guests. matthias, ibrahim, and juan, and thank you for watching. you can to the program again any time by visiting our website aljazeeraa.com. and do go to our facebook page. you can also join the conversation on twitter @ajinsidestory. for the whole team here, bye for now. matthias:

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