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A humanitarian aid crisis in Gaza

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USA TODAY

Daily News, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Arwa Damon, former CNN Senior International Correspondent and president and founder of INARA, joins The Excerpt to discuss the latest concerns about starvation in Gaza. Arwa wrote an essay earlier this week for the Atlantic Council detailing Gazans' famine fears.

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0:00.0

Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, May 16th, 2025. This is the excerpt.

0:14.4

Today we get a closer sense of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. Plus, the Supreme Court

0:19.9

wrestles with birthright citizenship questions

0:22.0

and what to expect from a giant military parade this summer. Gaza's more than two million

0:28.6

people face prolonged food shortages, according to the World Health Organization, and a global

0:33.0

hunger monitor, the integrated food security phase classification said this week that half a million

0:38.5

Gazans face starvation. Those startling numbers come as no humanitarian assistance has been

0:43.9

delivered to Gaza since March 2. For more on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza, I spoke

0:49.2

with Arwa Damon, a former CNN senior international correspondent and president and founder of the International

0:54.6

Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance, also known as Inara.

0:58.8

Arwa, thank you so much for giving me a few minutes on this.

1:01.2

Thank you.

1:01.8

My pleasure.

1:03.0

We've seen this humanitarian crisis really spiral since March in particular.

1:07.3

We know that a global hunger monitor has warned that half a million people face starvation.

1:13.2

What can you tell us about the latest, especially as it pertains to some of these hunger concerns?

1:17.7

No food has entered Gaza, not even a single grain of rice, not even a single bag of flour, for well over two months right now.

1:26.9

In the last few weeks, we've seen the World Health

1:29.7

Organization amounts that it has run out of its stocks, the World Central Kitchen, whose work in Gaza

1:36.5

was vital providing hot meals. They have also stopped being able to do that because they run out

1:42.8

of supplies. My own organization, Enada, we had to stop our own hot meal deliveries that we were doing

1:48.4

to the shelters that we work with around two weeks ago now because we couldn't find, you

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