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Desperation mounts in Gaza as Palestinians are killed while seeking food aid

PBS News Hour - Segments

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41K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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While the world’s attention is focused on Iran, Israel’s war in Gaza continues. Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours killed 51 Palestinians and wounded 104. John Yang speaks with James Elder, global spokesperson for UNICEF, about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

While the world's attention is focused on Iran, Israel's war in Gaza continues.

0:06.0

Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours, killed 51 Palestinians,

0:11.6

and wounded 104. In addition, Israel says it recovered the bodies of three hostages

0:16.7

Hamas captured in the October 7th attacks. And as the fighting goes on, so does the humanitarian crisis.

0:23.9

James Elder is global spokesman for UNICEF.

0:27.5

James Elder, I know you're just back from having spent a little more than a week in Gaza.

0:32.7

I'm curious, how did conditions compare with previous visits?

0:36.7

John, somehow the situation for Palestinians in Gaza has never been worse.

0:41.9

Just this relentless bombardment.

0:44.1

So people have been pushed to the very brink.

0:46.8

On top of that, the only way that water can be produced, distributed, treated is through fuel.

0:53.1

There's been a hundred-day blockade of any fuel whatsoever coming into Gaza.

0:57.1

Within two weeks, two weeks, we're going to see a complete lack of any drinking water.

1:02.2

They cannot live without water.

1:03.6

So that struck me heavily.

1:05.3

Malnutrition rates, 100 children a day over the course of 2025.

1:10.1

And I think, John, the level of children I've seen with wounds of war over five visits

1:14.3

is unparalleled to anything I've seen in my two decades of this work.

1:18.1

I don't just see those injuries now.

1:19.9

You hear them.

1:21.0

Every hospital is the sound of children screaming because of a severe lack of painkillers.

1:26.5

Any one of those children stand out in your memory?

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