philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me.l, it is a pleasure to have you in the studio, but i am very mindful thatjust a few days ago you were in gaza looking at your unrwa relief operations on the ground. you've come out, you've had a chance to reflect on what you saw. what were your overriding impressions? it was the second time i went to gaza since the war started, and my impression was that the humanitarian situation has significantly deteriorated. as you said in the introduction, we have 1.7 million people who have been displaced. among them, one million are sheltering in united nations schools or warehouses and premises across the gaza strip. i visited one of these places in khan younis. it's a vocational training centre. we have 35,000 people there. it looked, in a certain extent, like a prison because people shut the door of the compound to prevent new people to come in this shelter... hang on. just let me get my mind around this. 35,000 displaced people in one compound, one facility? exactly. and this used to be a vo

philippe lazzarini said what the palestinian territory is facing amounts to endless deepening tragedy. the united nations human rights chief also called situation in gaza, well beyond breakdown. "it is clear, if you look at the humanitarian situation at the moment, it is so precarious that the secretary general, but all of us have been saying what we had to say, including our humanitarian colleagues, because it's it's, i don't even know what what to find in terms of precariousness, i don't you can give me a better word and precari, it's extremely precarious, i mean it's in the verge of of breakdown, so of course there is a clarian call for everyone and for the international institutions." that deal with it, to take it very seriously and act on it. press tv corresponent in gaza, abu musab earlier joined us with first hand account of the unfolding crisis inside the coastal strip. israeli air strikes are maintained till this moment, as you know that couple of moments ago the israeli war planes targeted several areas and surrounding areas of the alaxa marters. hospital where we are stand

philippe lazzarini says gazans are desperate, hungry and terrified. as internet and phone networks across gaza went down again, according to the region's main telecomms company. we have some pictures from gaza where fighting has continued. smoke rising on the horizon. israel saying it will continue its operation until absolute victory, despite the humanitarian situation in gaza. the hamas—run health ministry says more than 18,000 people have been killed in gaza since the war began. and more than 1.8 million palestinians have been displaced by the fighting. i talked about that — and the path forward — with nabil fahmy, egypt's former foreign minister. there have been reports that egypt is highly concerned about the more than 1.8 million displaced palestinians from the war that they may be crossing over into egypt. tell us more about what those concerns are? the first concern is we do not accept the forced displacement of palestinians from the gaza strip in order to reduce the density of the population and consequently make it more of a israeli area. we

philippe lazzarini says gazans are desperate, hungry, and terrified.ccording to the region's main telecoms company. the hamas—run health ministry says more than 18,000 people have been killed in gaza since the war began. for more on the humanitarian situation in gaza, my colleague caitriona perry spoke to kelly flynn, country director for norwegian people's aid. kelly, can you tell us what your team is encountering in gaza at the moment?- your team is encountering in gaza at the moment? what is our gaza at the moment? what is your operation _ gaza at the moment? what is your operation look _ gaza at the moment? what is your operation look like? - gaza at the moment? what is. your operation look like? well, i will be very open, our operation in gaza right now, in terms of the team and our partners, are more or less, they are incapacitated, to a certain degree, given that they have all been displaced multiple times since 7 october. what impact is the bad weather of the last three days having on the situation there? i would sa that on the situation there?

my guest today is philippe lazzarini, commissioner—general of the un's palestinian refugee agency, unrwaiveable?

on thursday, philippe lazzarini, the head of the u.n.'s agency for palestinian refugees, said it has become almost impossible to distribute the small amount of aid israel has allowed into gaza. >> people are stopping aid trucks, taking the food and eating it right away. this is how desperate and hungry they are. i witnessed this firsthand. amy: in the occupied west bank, israeli forces killed an unarmed 17-year-old boy inside the khalil suleiman hospital. mÉdecins sans frontiÈres, or doctors without borders, also witnessed israeli soldiers blocking medical workers in ambulances carrying discharged patients home. drivers were forced to get out of their vehicles, strip down, and kneel in the streets. msf says it's part of a pattern targeting healthcare workers in the west bank since october 7, which also has included shooting live fire and teargas at hospitals, blocking emergency vehicles, and humiliating and harassing medical staff. outside the hospital compound, israeli soldiers desecrated a mosque in jenin and read out jewish prayers in