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Amanpour

UN Relief Chief Tom Fletcher

Amanpour

CNN

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In Gaza, dozens more Palestinians have joined the list of those killed by Israel as they try to find food, after Israeli forced opened fire near an aid site. This comes as President Trump's Special Envoy met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is becoming increasingly isolated on the world stage. Amid diplomatic and political moves, the World Food Program says people in Gaza need aid urgently and immediately. To delve into this further, Tom Fletcher, the United Nations top humanitarian official, joins the show.  Also on today's show: Nimrod Novik, Former senior advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres; former NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:07.0

Hunger and danger in Gaza as more are killed by Israel while seeking aid and starvation worsened.

0:15.0

The UN's top humanitarian official Tom Fletcher joins me and opposition to this war grows inside Israel.

0:22.6

What could it mean for the possibility of peace?

0:25.6

I will ask Nimrod Novik, a senior advisor to the former Prime Minister, Shimon Peres.

0:30.6

Then, whatever happened to the TikTok ban?

0:33.6

And is it still a national security risk? Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Proustiana Manpur in London.

0:58.2

In Gaza, dozens more Palestinians joined the list of those killed by Israel as they tried to find

1:04.5

food after Israeli forces opened fire near an aid site. This is President Trump's special envoy met with Prime Minister

1:11.9

Netanyahu, who is increasingly isolated on the world stage. Canada has now joined a growing

1:17.7

list of countries recognizing a Palestinian state, and in another significant development,

1:23.3

Arab and Muslim states, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt,

1:32.7

have for the first time issued a call for Hamas to disarm and relinquish power in Gaza as part of efforts to end this brutal war.

1:36.1

Amid these diplomatic and political moves, though, people are starving to death in Gaza.

1:40.9

They need urgently and immediately aid, says the WFP. Tom Fletcher is the UN's top

1:48.5

humanitarian official and emergency relief coordinator, and he's joining me now. Tom Fletcher,

1:53.8

welcome back to the program. Could I just start with a newsflash that Israel has dropped 43 aid packages into Gaza over the past few hours.

2:05.0

This is according to Israeli military. Air dropped it. I mean, is that caused for celebration?

2:10.5

What does that mean?

2:13.3

Well, look, any aid getting through at all is welcome, but ultimately you can get the same amount

2:18.5

of aid onto one truck as you can get onto one plane.

2:22.0

And what we need to see is vast amounts, these convoys, these trucks getting through in their

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