The Israeli army says it delivered food, flour, and water from the UN World Food Program to Gaza today,

after overnight Israeli airstrikes killed 19 people, 12 of them children.

The crisis affecting the youngest in Gaza continues to deepen, and it's not just Gaza.

UNICEF says there's also great need in Lebanon and in Syria. Earlier I spoke with

UNICEF spokesman James Elder about what he saw on a recent trip to the region.

Gaza unfortunately stands out, John, in the most graphic manner. We have reached a point now

after more than a year where suffering has stretched beyond what

anyone could possibly imagine.

You're not only the thousands and thousands of children being killed, you have hospitals

that simply can't cope.

Seventy percent of buildings have been damaged.

Disease is now rife.

So every step people take in Gaza almost gets them one step closer to debt.

You talk about the dire situation in Gaza, where, as you say, the war has been going on for more than a year now.

Is there more than just helping things at the margin that UNICEF can do now?

So there's an enormous amount that we do.

But as you rightly point out, John, how much are we able to do in that context?

Everyone has been told for the space of a year that around 500 trucks a day are required

into Gaza to enable people to make sure that they've got the food, water, medicine,

shelter that they require.

500 is the number.

November, we saw 65, an average of 65 trucks a day for

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