The World Food Programmes says no food aid has entered Gaza this month
Global News Podcast
BBC
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🗓️ 12 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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The UN World Food Programme says no food aid has been able to enter the north of Gaza since the first of October. The WFP says it's unclear how long the limited food supplies that had previously been delivered can last.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Sunday the 13th of October, |
| 0:10.0 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:12.0 | The World Health Organization criticizes the Israeli |
| 0:14.6 | military for not allowing food into northern Gaza as the IDF tells thousands to move |
| 0:20.4 | because of an operation to stop her mass regrouping. |
| 0:23.0 | Another UN peacekeeper is wounded in Lebanon. |
| 0:26.0 | One of Scotland's most prominent nationalists, Alex Sammond, |
| 0:30.0 | a former first minister of the country has died. |
| 0:35.0 | Also in this podcast, Poland plans tougher treatment of those seeking asylum. |
| 0:40.0 | We know very well how it is used by Putin. |
| 0:43.6 | Lukashenko, people smugglers, people traffickers, how this right to asylum is used exactly |
| 0:49.3 | against the essence of the right to asylum. For civilians in the north of Gaza, desperate living conditions are going from bad to worse. The UN World Food Program says no |
| 1:05.2 | food aid has arrived in the territory since the beginning of October because of |
| 1:09.4 | Israel's ongoing offensive. The estimated 400,000 people still remaining there are |
| 1:15.1 | facing dwindling supplies. And Juan Renauer is the director of the World Food |
| 1:19.8 | Program for Palestine and he told Julian Marshall more about the problems they're facing. |
| 1:25.0 | The two crossings which actually are the lifeline of the population as there's no commercial good getting into the area |
| 1:32.0 | have been now closed since the 1st of October. |
| 1:35.1 | And the biggest challenge is that is the assistance getting in. |
| 1:38.4 | We still had a number of our own warehouses with the cooperatingating bombers that we have in the area, so we manage actually |
| 1:47.2 | are relying on our existing stocks, but we are running short. Just to give you an idea, the only good that managed to come in was on Thursday and it was fuel, allowing us to actually still keep up and running four bakeries in Gaza City. All the two left bakeries that we had in |
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