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🗓️ 3 August 2025
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0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Ali Rogan. John Yang is away. Today marks one week since Israel began daily 10-hour tactical pauses of fighting in Gaza City, Daraabala, and Mawasi to allow more urgently needed aid into the territory. |
0:15.8 | But humanitarian groups say supplies are only trickling in, and the violence continues. |
0:25.7 | The Palestinian Red Crescent accused Israel of killing one of its staff members today after shelling its office in Gaza. Israel says it's investigating the claim. |
0:31.1 | Across the rest of the enclave, at least 40 people were killed today by Israeli gunfire |
0:36.1 | and airstrikes, according to local health authorities. |
0:39.3 | Many of them were reported to be seeking aid as the hunger crisis worsens. |
0:43.7 | Starvation and malnutrition claimed six more lives in the last day, according to the Gadsden Health Ministry. |
0:50.3 | Earlier, I spoke with Olga Trevko, spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza. |
0:58.3 | I asked her what she's been seeing. |
1:00.2 | The situation in terms of starvation crisis and the level of hunger here has reached unprecedented levels. |
1:08.7 | And it's now very visible and very obvious to the eye. So the whole |
1:15.6 | world has now seen these horrifying pictures of children, of adults who are obviously starving. |
1:23.5 | And the fact that it is now manifesting itself in people's bodies means that it has been happening |
1:30.4 | over all these months that we've said that there is a crisis and it should be, and it must be |
1:35.7 | addressed immediately. We're seeing the images and the videos. You are on the ground. You are, |
1:41.0 | you have relationships, friendships with the folks there. The people that you see on a |
1:46.2 | regular basis, can you tell us about how they're doing? Every time I see my friends and I, or every time |
1:53.6 | I don't see them for a few days and then they come in and I see them. It's really shocking how |
1:59.5 | much thinner they are getting. |
2:01.6 | And this is really everywhere I look, the gaunt faces, the kind of lights that has gone out of people's |
2:08.6 | eyes, it's really something that is very, very common these days. |
2:13.6 | Israel began tactical pauses in fighting in parts of Gaza. They say it's to facilitate more aid coming in. What has been your experience of those pauses on the ground and is more food being let in? And is it enough? |
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