00:00 The atrocities that were perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups on the 7th of October were heinous,
00:07 brutal, and shocking.
00:10 They were war crimes, as is the continued holding of hostages.
00:16 The collective punishment by Israel of Palestinian civilians amounts also to a war crime,
00:25 as does the unlawful, forcible evacuation of civilians.
00:30 There is an urgent humanitarian imperative to reach the population that is increasingly isolated,
00:37 including in the north and middle areas of Gaza, cut off from the very limited aid that is entering Gaza.
00:45 Just in the last few days, my colleagues have been receiving reports about an orphanage in the north of Galdera
00:52 that has 300 children in need of urgent help.
00:57 With communications down and access roads impossible and unsafe, we cannot get to them.
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