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🗓️ 4 June 2025
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0:00.0 | The Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is now in month 20, with no end in sight. |
0:11.0 | The war is grinding on, and negotiations for a ceasefire for hostage exchange are officially ongoing, |
0:20.0 | but we haven't seen any breakthrough yet. |
0:23.3 | That's our colleague Anat Pellid. She's been covering the conflict in Gaza and the humanitarian |
0:28.3 | crisis that's unfolding there. A crisis that's been getting worse. Last week, a controversial |
0:36.1 | new plan was put in place to help distribute aid. |
0:39.3 | It's backed by Israel in the U.S., and it promises to deliver food to Palestinians in Gaza. |
0:45.3 | But implementation has been mired in chaos and disorder. |
0:50.3 | So you have Gazans who are very hungry and desperate, all of them trying to make their way to these centers and get food, get boxes of food. |
1:06.0 | And what we've seen, you know, on the first day, the very first day of the launch, |
1:13.6 | we saw large crowds break in to one of the, you know, distribution sites. |
1:18.6 | And there was looting and there was chaos and the American staff had to retreat. |
1:23.6 | And we know that the Israeli military fired warning shots. Violence has broken out twice this week, |
1:31.3 | as Palestinians made their way to a distribution center. |
1:34.3 | More than 40 Gazans have been killed trying to get aid, |
1:38.3 | according to the Gaza Health Ministry, rescue services, and witnesses. |
1:42.3 | The Israeli military says some people approached its troops on their way to the distribution |
1:47.4 | site. |
1:48.5 | The military fired warning shots, as well as shots near individuals who failed to retreat. |
1:53.4 | The military added it was reviewing reports of casualties. |
2:05.8 | Delivering aid to people in Gaza has become one of the biggest challenges in the war, |
2:11.7 | a conflict where the separation between combatants and civilians is blurred, and no solution has worked. |
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