00:00Just tell us about the drinking water situation, because up until this point, a lot of people working on the ground have told us about chronic shortages of food, but we haven't heard quite so much about clean water supplies.
00:14Has that become more of an issue, would you say, in the last couple of days?
00:17Absolutely. It's become an issue over the last several weeks as fuel supplies and fuel reserves have run out.
00:23The UN has now received or retrieved the last batch of reserves that were in Gaza that they had been denied access to repeatedly by the Israeli authorities and are distributing those fuel supplies.
00:36But what the limit and no new fuel has entered Gaza since before March 2nd.
00:43And so what this means is that critical services are coming to a halt.
00:47We at the Norwegian Refugee Council have been trucking water to dozens of sites throughout Gaza over the last several months.
00:55It's one of the few things that we've been able to continue to provide.
00:58But if there's no fuel, then the pumps stop working, the desalination plants stop working, and we're unable to provide that last lifeline to communities.
01:07We now have had to reduce, due to displacement orders and lack of fuel, the number of sites that we are serving.
01:14We're still serving somewhere around 40 sites and 85,000 Palestinians, but we're only able to provide about four and a half liters per person when the recommended minimum standard for humanitarians would be 15 liters per person.
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