00:00First of all, tell us what's going on around where you are right now.
00:05Well, Tom, weaponry. I don't have military expertise, but consistent heavy weaponry.
00:11I've only been back in the Gaza Strip for 24 hours. It's my fifth time since October 7, but 24 hours, 24 hours.
00:18I've met a lot of people who are desperately hungry.
00:21I'm seeing, again, that universal symbol of hand and mouth, just in all that I've seen before.
00:26But in the south, in the middle area and so on, I've been to Al-Aqsa Hospital where there were three drone strikes today.
00:33We've had children killed in Khan Unis. Again, met a little boy in a hospital.
00:38His home was bombed in a safe zone, and he was the only surviving member with his father.
00:43This is less than 24 hours, so there is a level of despair and despondency, particularly, I think, Tom,
00:49particularly around the look of food for everyone across the Strip, north to south, east to west.
00:55It is the one unifying thing that people think about, spending their days.
01:00How do I get food or how do I get anything resembling nutrition?
01:04OK, so clearly, you paint a picture of widespread desperation, malnutrition.
01:12Clearly, this is having a particular impact on children and the most vulnerable segments of the population.
01:20Just tell us a little bit more about that.
01:21Yeah, I spoke recently to a colleague who's a nutritional expert who made it very clear to me,
01:28this situation continues, and by that I mean a continued blockage of aid,
01:33not allowing the amount that is required, the amount that we've got working through ceasefire,
01:37showing what can be done.
01:39And if this blockade continues, then he said, you know, we will see a famine.
01:45And once we see a famine, anyone knows it's too late.
01:48That means that those deaths, those numbers have already started to occur.
01:51So we've got a critical nutritional situation.
01:55It's a vicious cycle, Tom, because, of course, there is now a great spike in diseases.
02:01Disease and malnutrition are terrible partners.
02:04That's what kills a child, a child who's malnourished is 10 times more likely to die from disease,
02:09a grave lack of fresh water.
02:11So all these things, but these are all man-made.
02:13These are all in force.
02:14There's thousands of trunks across the border ready to go.
02:17And, of course, as everyone knows, all of this within a theatre of relentless bombardments,
02:24of a continued, continued war.
02:26Well, I hesitate to use the word war in fairness.
02:30Wars have laws.
02:31This is the destruction of a society, brick by brick, child by child.
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