"A Complete Catastrophe:" The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Cindy McCain, the WFP's Executive Director, about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza which she calls "a complete catastrophe."
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| 0:00.0 | With Israel's ongoing siege and bombardment of Gaza, the humanitarian crisis there is |
| 0:13.7 | growing more dire every day. |
| 0:15.9 | The health sector is operating at less than 5% of its capacity. |
| 0:20.0 | You have people on ventilators, you have people on ICU units, you have children and |
| 0:25.4 | incubators, and you have a fuel that is about to run out. |
| 0:31.0 | The fuel now, as we are speaking now, they have a few hours left. |
| 0:35.2 | That's Mahas and Sarhan, the CEO of the Egyptian Food Bank. |
| 0:39.0 | One of the aid organizations leading the effort to get aid into Gaza from Egypt. |
| 0:43.9 | We spoke to him on Wednesday when the fuel supply was running dangerously low. |
| 0:49.1 | So low in stock, medical supplies, without them, people are resorting to desperate brutal |
| 0:55.0 | measures. |
| 0:56.0 | Five or six days ago, the hospitals there started doing surgeries without anesthetics. |
| 1:00.7 | Could you believe that this is happening in the modern world? |
| 1:04.4 | This is mid-event. |
| 1:05.5 | This is mid-event. |
| 1:06.8 | Israel began its siege and bombardment of Gaza after the Hamas attack October 7th that Israel |
| 1:12.5 | says killed 1,400 people. |
| 1:16.0 | In Gaza, the health ministry says the death toll there has surpassed 7,000. |
| 1:21.5 | Meanwhile, aid has only started to trickle in. |
| 1:24.8 | As of Thursday evening, just over 68 trucks have been allowed to cross from Egypt into Gaza, |
| 1:31.4 | delivering much-needed assistance. |
| 1:33.8 | Sarhan says that is a tiny fraction of what's needed. |
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