earlier, i spoke to mara kronenfeld, the executive director of the us national committee for the un reliefsrefugees. thank you forjoining us, mara kronenfield. what sort of conditions are your colleagues in gaza reporting? we are at nearly 2a hours on from the ceasefire — does it seem to be holding? we are very happy of course and welcome news of the ceasefire, although it is of course limited, as well as the release of hostages and visitors. this, we really are, though, calling for a much longer, in fact a permanent humanitarian ceasefire, because the conditions have been so difficult and in fact we have 2.2 million people in gaza living under deplorable inhumane conditions. and it is really a human tragedy at a level, at an extreme level. we know that, as your colleague said, 137 trucks of humanitarian aid had got in today, which is far more than the average of some 35—45 trucks that can get in, that have been able to get in since october 21. this is extremely helpful, given the lack of water, food, medicines, othersupplies across the gaza strip, but pre this conflict, there were 500 truc