00:00 Today marks indeed a very grim date.
00:05 It's one month since the horrific attacks on mainly civilians in Israel and the abduction
00:11 of 240 reportedly mainly civilians.
00:15 Nothing justifies the horrific attacks by Hamas and other armed groups on the 7th of
00:21 October that targeted Israeli civilians mainly, and nothing justifies this.
00:27 But it's also one month since the start of hostilities, the siege and the attacks on
00:32 Gaza and the Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories.
00:39 Nothing justifies the horror being endured by the civilians in Gaza.
00:46 People in Gaza are dying in their thousands, and those alive are suffering from trauma,
00:51 disease, lack of food and water.
00:54 The level of death and suffering is hard to fathom.
00:59 Over 1,400 people have reportedly died in Israel, and just over 11,000 have now been
01:08 reported dead in Gaza.
01:11 That's a half percent of the population of Gaza.
01:18 An average of about 160 children are killed every day.
01:23 WHO has so far delivered eight trucksloads of supplies.
01:29 Much of this is urgently needed material, including anesthesia, as people are being
01:34 operated on for amputations and other things without anesthesia.
01:40 Everything is set up.
01:42 The logistics are there, the convoys are there, the supplies are there.
01:46 What is not there is the access, and that's what is needed.
01:50 We need unhindered, safe and secure access all the way to the patients and to the hospitals.
01:57 Getting across into Gaza is one thing.
02:00 Getting further to the hospitals and to supply stations is the next step.
02:04 Again, I think the figure is pretty astonishing.
02:06 500 trucks have been going in so far in four weeks, and we need, as has been reported,
02:15 500 a day.
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