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00:00 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on a visit to the Egyptian side of the Rafah
00:05 crossing, said it was time to truly flood Gaza with life-saving aid.
00:10 He renewed a call for an immediate ceasefire and said he wanted an "ironclad commitment
00:15 by Israel for total access for humanitarian goods to Gaza."
00:20 A long line of blocked relief trucks on one side of the gates, the long shadow of starvation
00:28 on the other.
00:30 That is more than tragic.
00:32 It is a moral outrage.
00:34 The UN's World Food Programme says Gazans are already starving to death, with famine
00:39 projected by May in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
00:43 There are a number of obstacles that the Israeli authorities have maintained that make it very
00:50 difficult to reach the level of delivery that is necessary.
00:55 The problem is not how many trucks enter, the problem is how can we distribute.
01:05 He said Israel's plans to launch a ground assault on the Gaza side of Rafah, where more
01:09 than half of Gaza's population have taken refuge, would be a humanitarian catastrophe.
01:16 The UN Secretary-General's visit came a day after the UN Security Council failed to reach
01:20 consensus on the wording of a US-sponsored resolution supporting an immediate and sustained
01:26 ceasefire.
01:29 And with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that for Israel there is
01:33 no way to defeat Hamas without getting into Rafah.
01:36 But if it is necessary.