is wfp and other humanitarians, - now? is wfp and other humanitarians, the - now?ans, the biggest action, issue is it is actually action, issue is it is actually a series of issue — number one, the operational space is shrinking. it is not safe for our staff to distribute aid, it is not safe for civilians to go to the sites where we are providing a because of the bombardment. whatever little aid is making it into gaza we are also facing roadblocks in terms of the lack of fuel. if it comes through rougher we need fuel to transport the food from 1's place to another to reach the people we need. the food in the shops, we used to provide cash assistance, this empowers the local economy. that was already fragile before the seventh of october. let's remember that to thirds of that population was reliant on humanitarian assistance. the cash assistance we cannot provide that anymore because food is not available on the shelves. the supplies are depleted and the communication lockouts, once those happened, our connections with our partners, the shops, the retailers, the peo

wfp is warning now the area is on the brink of (inaudible) we're starting to see a spread of waterborne disease. that is a cocktail very familiar to humanitarians, it's what proceeds the scale of mortality in famine or humanitarian crisis. >> i want to be clear, quote the world food programme, saying eight weeks of the war is a high risk of famine for all the people of gaza, especially for those with chronic diseases, older persons, children, and those living disabilities. but the very high casualty toll, we think, again, according to statistics we have, which comes from the gaza health ministry, as many as 6000 children, possibly more, the vast majority, to my understanding, are from direct result of israeli airstrikes, bombardment, and mortars, right? you are saying there is now a real possibility of this secondary mortality. >> right. what -- you look at something like the famine in somalia in 2011 that killed people, those weren't killed in fighting. they were killed because they died from the famine, and that's what one -- >> precipitated by fighting. >> precipitated by fighting, b

the onset of the israel on gaza, over 1200 trucks carrying food aid have. bestinian territory, but wfp in its reports as 100 trucks with food are needed each day to meet the basic needs of the civil population and in a rare move one secretary general is invoked what is widely considered to be the most powerful diplomatic tool to turn the attention of the security council toward the humanitarian crisis in the bessieg. given scale the loss of human life in gaza and in israel in such a... short amount of time, the secretary general has today delivered letter to the president of the security council, invoking article 99 of the charter of the united nations. this is the first time that antonio terris has. became secretary in 2017, article 99 states and quote, the secretary general made to the attention of the security council any matter in his opinion a threat maintenance of international peace and security. in the letter which has been shared with you, the secretary general urges members of the security council to press to revert a humanitarian catastrophe, and he appeals for humanitarian

on gaza over 1200 trucks carrying food aid have entered the besieged palestinian territory however wfp in this report says 100 tricks with food needed each day to meet basic needs of the civilian population in gaza. the southern strip is really. under heavy israeli bombardment. un officials war no place in gaza is safe a mid israel's fresh air rates and evacuation orders. as a result of israel's conduct of hostilities and his orders for people to leave the north and pass of the south, hundreds of thousands are being confined into ever smaller areas in gaza without proper sanitation, access to sufficient food, water and health supplies even as bombs b around them. winter is harder than this ongoing war where we live inside tents, primordial life, we are living like her ancestors lived before 1948, everyone is struggling. due to the winter and the cancer already submerged, trying to adapt to our current situation as much as we can, so we have the perfect storm for disease, disease outbreak, remembering of course in this specific case of gaza, israel is the occupying power, it's they who

eating enough, are not eating every day and don't know uh where the next meal is going to come from. the wfp officials said the situation in the gaza strip is increasingly desperate and chaotic. he called for humanitarian cease fire in gaza to pave the way for delivering aid. yemen's naval forces have targeted yet another ship heading to israel in response to the regime's ongoing onslaught on the gaza strip. the spokesman for the yemani army said the containership was directly hit with a drone after the crew refused to respond to the warnings. yahya sari called the operation victory for the oppressed palestinians and response and a response to the cause by the free people of yemen. he further revealed that the army has successfully stopped several ships from reaching israeli ports in the past 48 hours. the spokesman reiterated the yemeni army's pledge that it will continue blocking israeli bound ships in the red and the arabian seas until the regime huses aggression against palestinians. activis and political commentator hussein al-bukaiti joined us earlier from san ar with this take on the

eating enough, are not eating every day and don't know uh where the next meal is going to come from. the wfp officials said situation in gaza is increasingly desperate and chaotic, he called for humanitarian sease far to pay the way for the delivery of aid. yemen's naval forces have targeted yet another ship headed to israel in response to the regime's ongoing onslot on gaza. spokesman for a yemani army said a containership was directly hit with a drone. after its crew refused to respond to warnings. yahya called the operation victory for oppressed palestine and response to the calls by the free people of yemen. you further reveal that the army has successfully stopped several ships from reaching israeli ports in the past 48 hours. the spokesman reiterated yemini army's pledge that it will continue blocking israeli bound ships in the red sea and the arabian sea as well until the regime halts its aggression against palestinians. activist and political commentator hussain albuiti joined us earlier from sana with his take on potential us push for red sea maritime coalition and response to yemen

these ons slot over 1200 trucks carrying. food aid have entered the besieg palestinian territory, but wfp in its report says 100 trucks with food needed each day to meet basic needs of the civilian population in gaza. israel's genocidalts on gaza force palestinians to live in squalet tent camps without basic necessities. take a listen to some palestinians talk about the di situation in those camps. the conditions on the camps are extremely challenging when the rain will start to fall to cover them. trying to stop water inferation, the situation is extremely difficult as we have been striving to secure food, water and firewood. we struggled to bring firewood to set a fire to cook food for our children or warm them. we're struggling with another war in addition to the ongoing war. it's a battle for survival, secure food and water and to be able to go on. what can we do? it's a life imposed on us. godwing this ones and a permanent not temporary is fires to be applied so that we can go back home and leave an honorable, which is much better than life of humiliation. our situation has been comp

wfp has provided food and assistance to hundreds of people across gaza since the crisis began and iseast 40 trucks of food supplies are needed every day, many times the current level. the guys in health system is collapsing while injuries are escalating. many health workers have been killed. hospitals have suffered heavy bombardment, just 14 out of 76 are still functioning. of these, three are providing basic first aid while others are delivering partial services. european gaza hospital, one of the main in gaza, has 370 beds and is currently housing 1000 patients and an estimated 70,000 people are seeking shelter there. there are critical shortages of and medical supplies. there are critical shortages of and medicalsupplies. many there are critical shortages of and medical supplies. many patients are being treated on the floor and without anaesthetics. as patients without anaesthetics. as patients with life—threatening injuries continue to arrive, wards are overflowing and staff are overwhelmed. at the same time, the unsanitary conditions in shelters and the shortages of food and wat

people are taking up again, going to eastern states, and what is most concerning about this for the wfpty, we have had to pause some of our operations to provide emergency food assistance. this month alone, we were planning to support nearlyi million people in that state alone. now, with people on the move, we need to figure out how we can reach those people who need help the most. we are also very concerned about the safety and security of our food assistance we have stocked their as well as our premises and operations. there is also ongoing looting happening, as we hear, on the ground, so the parties to the conflict need to protect humanitarian assets and assistance, and allow humanitarians to do their work because the sudanese people now need, after injuring these horrors for almost three quarters of the year. tell me about how many _ three quarters of the year. tell me about how many people _ three quarters of the year. tell me about how many people have - three quarters of the year. tell me about how many people have been j about how many people have been affected by this and how i

order for us to be able to respond at scale, given the need, knowing the according to our colleagues at wfp, almost half of the population is on the verge of starvation. from our colleagues at who, a third of the hospitals are operational. children are dying, being killed in the fighting and the spectrum of disease is looming. for us to be able to get in with anywhere near the level of humanitarian assistance needed, we need a cease fire and an end to the fight. otherwise, it's going to be a sticking faster. >> is it possible to quantify the type of need that you guys have? i mean, what would that look like? israeli officials say today they screened 280 trucks at israeli crossings. they'll go to gaza. how far will that actually go in helping civilians in gaza? >> look, every truck that gets in is critical. and will provide a small level of hope to children and families. but, you know, you see the images. i was in turkey after the earthquake. the level of destruction and damage is comparable. when a cease fire comes and really we hope it is soon as feasibly possible, the level of response is

an analysis published by the wfp this week found more than two-thirds of households in the region cannotfford healthy diets due to a combination of conflict, climate change, and soaring food prices. ollo sib is the world food programme's head of research for western and central africa. >> nearly 80% of the people currently facing food insecurity are located in conflict zones. we impact climate change. this year, there have been prolonged periods of rainfall in certain areas resulting in significant crop losses for farmers. amy: the u.n. is warning hunger in sudan's conflict zones is headed toward famine-like conditions as some khartoum residents have been surviving on a single, small daily meal. some 30 million people, roughly two thirds of the population, are in need of assistance in sudan according to the u.n. that's double the number before fighting broke out between the sudanese army and rapid support forces in april. the violence and economic woes have devastated sudan's agricultural sector, which has also been hit by below-average rains. meanwhile, residents of the city of omdurman

there is no safe drinking water and food and nutrition services and there is not enough food and the wfphe risk of famine for a staggering amount of the population and protection of attack from violence that is clear. thousands and thousands of children are being killed. education, is a respite from psycho psycho social support and we can't provide until there is a ceasefire to get in and do the work that we do. >> i can hear the desperation in your voice. in terms of the work that your colleagues are doing on the ground there, what kind of aid have they been able to provide, and i guess how difficult is it getting? >> it is incredibly challenging, but on christmas day we were able to get hundreds of thousands of vaccines to protect children against disease because it is hard to imagine as we see the numbers of children who have been killed directly in the fighting that there could be any greater threat, but we know that it's something like measles or cholera, any of these diseases which children and especially malnourished children, children that were not getting enough food and especia

wfp send an envoy -- and we are also trying to send meals to different places, khan yunis, gaza city,hopefully from jordan at the same time that we are doing this through -- but at the same time, this is a very massive effort. i think that the different agencies of the u.n., they are doing an amazing job. it is not the agencies, it is the people inside gaza right now risking their lives from people like -- and obviously the different agencies of the u.n., and we see how many of those people have died already. the kitchen, we lost six members of our kitchen and ukraine. the only difference in gaza right now is that you are surrounded by walls. anybody trying to help inside of gaza, or especially the more than 2 million palestinians, they don't have anywhere to go. when we try to bring food and water to the north, you are getting and that cross fire that is highly dangerous to the people providing humanitarian aid. that is why it is so important that, as this war is going, at the end, the only thing i do really care as a person, and i will say world central kitchen, is that food and wat

i've read that you've also, whilst you were at wfp, have said that you didn't want your your media team to take pictures of amazing hated babies, babies who were ill because of lack of food, because you wanted to show these chubby, well rounded babies in lower income nations to show, yes, this is possible. we just need to have the commitment. so i guess my question to you is and cognizant of the fact that i myself am a member of the media, what role does media need to play in this? what role does academia need to play? the whole roster of civil society? when we talk about a food secure world, we need a narrative that. says ending hunger is possible no matter where we are in the world . and that narrative starts with the media, the and those with voice who are willing to tell to speak truth about about women and families is in tough places around the world. because i have been, as you noted, in somalia to sudan, south sudan, yemen, every family feeds their baby first, whether it's in on the west side of the city of chicago or it's in in the it's in the a slum in in nigeria. right. and th

i've read that you've also, whilst you were at wfp, have said that you didn't want your your media team to take pictures of amazing hated babies, babies who were ill because of lack of food, because you wanted to show these chubby, well rounded babies in lower income nations to show, yes, this is possible. we just need to have the commitment. so i guess my question to you is and cognizant of the fact that i myself am a member of the media, what role does media need to play in this? what role does academia need to play? the whole roster of civil society? when we talk about a food secure world, we need a narrative that. says ending hunger is possible no matter where we are in the world . and that narrative starts with the media, the and those with voice who are willing to tell to speak truth about about women and families is in tough places around the world. because i have been, as you noted, in somalia to sudan, south sudan, yemen, every family feeds their baby first, whether it's in on the west side of the city of chicago or it's in in the it's in the a slum in in nigeria. right. and th

i've read that you've also, whilst you were at wfp, have said that you didn't want your your media team to take pictures of amazing hated babies, babies who were ill because of lack of food, because you wanted to show these chubby, well rounded babies in lower income nations to show, yes, this is possible. we just need to have the commitment. so i guess my question to you is and cognizant of the fact that i myself am a member of the media, what role does media need to play in this? what role does academia need to play? the whole roster of civil society? when we talk about a food secure world, we need a narrative that. says ending hunger is possible no matter where we are in the world . and that narrative starts with the media, the and those with voice who are willing to tell to speak truth about about women and families is in tough places around the world. because i have been, as you noted, in somalia to sudan, south sudan, yemen, every family feeds their baby first, whether it's in on the west side of the city of chicago or it's in in the it's in the a slum in in nigeria. right. and th