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we begin today's show in jerusalem where we're joined by shaina low. she is a communications advisor in palestine for the norwegian refugee council. she has spent much of the last 15 years working in palestine. thank you for joining us in this very desperate time in gaza. can you describe the overall situation to us? >> what we're hearing from our staff on the ground in gaza is just that day after day things are getting more and more hectic, chaotic, desperate. we are hearing about massive influxes of people fleeing khan younis, fleeing south and west to barren areas of land where there are no facilities able to accommodate them. we are hearing about shelters that are overwhelmed and bursting at the seams and cannot house any additional people. we are hearing about people being so desperate that they are sleeping on the street trying to salvage whatever materials they can find in order to build a makeshift shelter. yesterday we lost internet connection because people had cut the internet cables in order to use that to help make a shelter. this is the l

i spoke with shaina low from the norweigan refugee council.workers are sharing with us, our 5a staff on the ground in gaza, is simply devastating. they are at the point now where we have had to cease our operations, effectively cease our operations in gaza because our staff cannot deliver aid when they are themselves in need of aid and struggling to find the basic necessities — food, clean water, a safe place to sleep, even a place to sleep. we have multiple staff members who are sleeping on the streets, including a staff member with her two—month—old baby. this is how desperate and dire the situation is. with ongoing hostilities, mass displacement, 60% of housing damaged or destroyed, it is simply impossible to deliver a meaningful humanitarian response under such conditions. since the ceasefire broke down last friday, how much worse has the situation got on the ground? what we are hearing from the staff is that the situation has just continued to deteriorate since the end of the pause. in some ways, they feel like they were lulled into a fal

earlier, i spoke to shaina low, the communication adviser for the norwegian refugee council injerusalemxt day turns out to actually be the worst day of their life. the situation just keeps getting more and more desperate. our office lost its internet connection for 24 hours because people had cut the cables searching for anything that they could use to make makeshift tents because there are no materials there. people are being displaced for multiple, multiple times, including members of our staff. we currently have multiple members of our staff who are sleeping on the streets because they have no place to go. shelters are bursting at the seams and there simply isn't space to accommodate more people in these facilities in the south, especially as people move south and west of khan younis, as they've been directed to by the israeli authorities. this is incredibly concerning because absent guarantees of safety while fleeing or safety where they flee to and guarantees of their ability to to return home once hostilities have ended, once hostilities have ended. this displacement amounts to fo