Dealing with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

Amanpour

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The UN warns the conditions on the ground in Gaza are "increasingly dire," with food, water and medicine all running critically low. Right now, trucks carrying vital aid are unable to get to those who desperately need it. The Egyptian Food Bank is one of the organizations eager to cross. Their CEO Mohsen Sarhan joins the show from the border. Also on today's show: Benoit Carpentier, spokesperson for International Federation of the Red Cross; Robin Wright, contributing write for the New Yorker and distinguished scholar for the US Institute of Peace; Ory Slonim, former special adviser to Israel’s defense minister; Steve Inskeep, cohost of NPR Morning Edition To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.4	Exchange fees and fair usage limits apply. Hello everyone and welcome to Amantor. Here's what's coming up. The opening of the
0:38.9	ruff of crossing suffers yet another setback. With critical aid for Gaza hanging in the balance, I speak to
0:44.5	humanitarian organizations on the ground. And as a civilian death toll climbed by the
0:49.7	hour, we have a report on the children caught up in Israel's war on Hamas.
0:54.8	Then President Biden says both Hamas and Putin share a common goal to annihilate a
0:59.5	neighboring democracy. I speak to veteran foreign policy analyst Robin Wright about the fear that war will
1:05.1	spill out across the region.
1:07.6	Plus, as a possible ground incursion looms, families desperately await news of their
1:12.0	loved ones held hostage by Hamas.
1:14.6	My conversation with lawyer and former hostage negotiator, Orisbonim, also ahead.
1:20.8	Bitter divisions leave Congress in limbo without a House speaker.
1:24.0	Michelle Martin talks to NPR Steve Insky about lessons we can draw from history. And then. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Biana Galadriga in New York sitting in for Christian
1:47.0	al-Mmanpore. We begin in Gaza where the UN warns the conditions on the ground are quote
1:53.9	increasingly dire with food, water and medicine all running critically low as
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