Gaza Aid Not Reaching Those Who Need It Despite Air Drops and Easing of Blockade

TIME

International outcry over images of emaciated children and increasing reports of hunger-related deaths have pressured Israel to let more aid into the Gaza Strip. This week, Israel paused fighting in parts of Gaza and airdropped food. But aid groups and Palestinians say the changes have only been incremental and are not enough to reverse what food experts say is a “ worst-case scenario of famine” unfolding in the war-ravaged territory.

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00:00Under mounting international pressure and reports that Gaza is facing the worst-case scenario of famine,

00:06Israel has started letting more aid into the enclave.

00:09But aid groups and Palestinians say aid is not reaching those who need it, and it's barely making a dent.

00:14Aid groups say that after months of stringent restrictions from Israel with not letting aid get in,

00:20people don't have confidence that there's going to be continued assistance.

00:23When trucks come in, thousands of people swarm them, taking what they can,

00:28unsure when there's going to be the next round of assistance.

00:31Aid groups also say that the new measures Israel is creating, including airdrops from the sky, are ineffective and they're costly.

00:39Aid drops are falling in the Mediterranean Sea.

00:41It's also falling in areas that Palestinians have been prevented by Israel from accessing.

00:47And aid groups also say there is a breakdown of law and order in Gaza,

00:50that not only are starving, unarmed Palestinians surrounding these trucks,

00:55but they are seeing people with pistols as well as knives and guns loot the trucks.

01:01Truck drivers say they're being held at gunpoint.

01:03The entire truck is being looted, including the batteries as well as the diesel.

01:08They say that this is basically survival of the fittest.

01:11Whoever is able to get to the aid first gets it.

01:14Aid groups say that the only way for this to change is for a consistent, steady flow of aid to come into Gaza.

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