From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Underwater UN Agency for Palestine Refugees is about to run out of supplies, including fuel

that is needed for incubators and life-support machines and hospitals. It's needed for bakeries,

it's needed for water pumping. If we run out of fuel, we will not be able to deliver

any humanitarian assistance. Gaza is being strangled. That's the latest warning

from the United Nations about the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza. As Palestinian authorities say

over 7,300 people have now been killed in Israel's 21-day bombardment. We'll speak to a top

UN official. That's the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, which is sheltering over 600,000

displaced cousins. Then we speak to an Israeli man who helped negotiate a prisoner swap with Hamas

in 2011 that freed the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit after five years. We'll also speak to New

York University law student, Reena Workman, who lost a job at a prestigious law firm after

speaking up for Palestinian rights. The biggest message I want to tell everyone right now is that

no one should be punished for speaking out for Palestinian human rights. And the backlash we're

seeing against me is creating a much larger and much more intense chilling effect for other

students. And I think that in this moment we need to be able to feel empowered to speak up and

call for a ceasefire and an end to this genocide. All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

The United Nations has worn many more Palestinians will die due to catastrophic shortages of food,

water, and medicine. As Israel's non-stop bombardment of the Gaza Strip entered its 21st day.

Earlier today, Philippe Lazarini, the head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees,

known as Enra, warned his agency's operations are crumbling as Gaza's star. He called Israel

siege collective punishment of more than two million people, a majority of whom are women and

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