00:00Okay, let's talk about the situation in Gaza and what you've been seeing. The ceasefire
00:05appears to be holding. Part of the ceasefire meant that aid was supposed to be allowed
00:11through and to cross without too many restrictions. Do you get the impression that aid is reaching
00:18everyone that needs it there in Gaza?
00:20Not yet, but we're certainly trying. The volume of aid has increased dramatically since the
00:25ceasefire. We've gone up now to, as an international humanitarian community, 600 trucks a day,
00:31which is a great achievement considering that what we were doing before was really limited.
00:38It shows that we were capable of delivering this volume of aid throughout the war, but
00:43we had so many restrictions on our ability to bring that aid in and to move across the
00:48Gaza Strip that prevented us from really delivering humanitarian assistance to the people that
00:52needed it. So the aid is coming in, but what we can't get in in two weeks is not enough
00:58to undo 15 months of deprivation. So there are, of course, people who are still in tremendous
01:03need like this family today who are asking me for winter clothes for their children,
01:07for tarpaulins to build shelter because they have nowhere to live. One of the children
01:11didn't have shoes. People are still asking for water, for food and for medicine. So there
01:16is going to be a lot more that needs to come in to meet people's basic needs before we
01:21even begin about thinking about longer term needs.
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