White House Asked Point Blank: Will Aid Workers Be Protected In Gaza?

5 months ago

During a White House Press Briefing on Monday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre answered reporter questions on the return of aid workers to Gaza.

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00:00Thanks. Does the White House have a reaction to Central Kitchen's decision to restart operations in Gaza?

00:08Can I just first say that the work that humanitarian aid workers do is brave, is incredibly important,

00:17and it is good to hear that they are going back to do the brave work that they continue to do,

00:24not just in Gaza, obviously, in Haiti and Sudan and many other places around the globe.

00:30And so we're happy to hear that.

00:34As you know, the president had a conversation with the prime minister about making sure that we deconflict

00:41and protect the lives of humanitarian aid workers as they're out there being brave,

00:45offering assistance to Palestinians in Gaza.

00:51And so we have seen some steps being taken by Israel to do just that,

00:56and we will always encourage and continue to have those discussions with Israel to do more.

01:00And so we are certainly encouraged by that, by humanitarian aid workers from WCK going back out there

01:09and also encouraged by the steps that the Israeli government has taken to make sure that more humanitarian aid gets in.

01:17Did you consult with them at all about that decision,

01:20and are you confident that the aid workers are not going to be at further risk?

01:26So again, we're going to continue to be very clear with the Israeli government on making sure that they are protected,

01:34humanitarian aid workers are protected, and we have seen some progress in that, in that deconflicting,

01:39and we have seen aid increase.

01:40I do want to lay out a couple of things that in the humanitarian aid going in that we've seen increase.

01:46Overall, nearly 5,000 trucks have entered Gaza since early April.

01:51That includes almost 200 humanitarian and commercial trucks a day.

01:55On average, entering Gaza in the last three weeks, some days, 400-plus truckloads enter.

02:01The United States conducted over 30 airdrops for relief supplies, including over 1 million meals,

02:07141,300 bottles of water to Gaza as of April 28th,

02:15and a lot of that is because of the president stepping in and making very clear that we need to do more,

02:21and the United States have led in the effort on getting that humanitarian aid.

White House Asked Point Blank: Will Aid Workers Be Protected In Gaza?

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