‘Catastrophic’ conditions in Gaza as Israeli blockade enters third month, aid group says
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🗓️ 11 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The Israeli blockade of Gaza is now in its third month. |
| 0:04.0 | Since early March, no food, water, shelter or medication has been allowed into the embattled |
| 0:09.0 | territory, and aid groups on the ground warn of a worsening humanitarian crisis. |
| 0:14.0 | Earlier today, I spoke with Gara al-Hadad, who works for Oxfam inside Gaza and asked her about the latest conditions on the ground. |
| 0:22.2 | The conditions in Gaza is getting more catastrophic than before. |
| 0:27.4 | We are now seeing children are starving. |
| 0:30.6 | Hospital and the health facilities are collapsing. |
| 0:35.2 | Families are wiped out due to Israeli air strikes and bombardment. Now, since |
| 0:40.8 | March the second, Israel has block AIDS flow into the Gaza Strip. This closure of the borders, |
| 0:47.4 | in addition to the resumptions of the war, since March, it didn't have worsened the conditions and have worsened the humanitarian |
| 0:56.3 | conditions that we live through and experience on daily paces. |
| 1:01.7 | I mean, it's getting worse and worse, and it is getting more catastrophic every now and then. |
| 1:07.1 | You say that it's getting worse and worse. |
| 1:08.6 | Are you seeing more cases of malnutrition and disease? |
| 1:12.5 | Many people that I've met told me that their children are experiencing acute malnutrition. |
| 1:21.1 | Many mothers, including the mothers in my family, |
| 1:25.0 | they told me that their children are getting dizzy because they do not |
| 1:28.8 | have the sufficient food, the sufficient nutrition that these children wanted. Most mothers try to |
| 1:35.9 | ration the food meals for their children. Imagine like a child wanted to eat, wanted to have |
| 1:41.7 | a full meal and he or she cannot get it. Not because their |
| 1:45.5 | parents do not want to give it to him or her, but because they do not have it in their |
| 1:50.7 | kitchens. They do not have it in their tents. So children and other vulnerable communities are |
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