UN says international community must improve Gaza aid system
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
UNICEF spokesperson James Elder responds to allegations made by the head of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, Reverend Johnnie Moore, who told Newshour that the UN was being dishonest about reports of Palestinians being killed near GHF aid sites.
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(Photo: Palestinians gather to collect what remains of relief supplies from the distribution centre of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 5 June 2025. Credit: Reuters/Stringer)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Rebecca Kesb. |
| 0:09.5 | It's been four weeks since the US-Israeli-backed organisation, |
| 0:13.7 | the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, began a new and controversial method of delivering food aid at four sites in Gaza. In that time, 500 people have |
| 0:24.1 | been killed trying to access aid. That's according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Another |
| 0:30.1 | 4,000 have been injured. There have been chaotic scenes as desperate people have risked the |
| 0:36.1 | dangerous journeys to get what aid there is available. |
| 0:39.9 | We've spoken to medics on the ground who've given us details of the patients they've treated. |
| 0:44.9 | We've spoken to ordinary garsons who've witnessed events. |
| 0:48.2 | For the past month, we've been asking the GHF for an interview. |
| 0:52.3 | Today we got one. |
| 0:54.0 | Reverend Johnny Moore is an American |
| 0:55.7 | evangelical pastor. He's also the chair of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Earlier today, |
| 1:02.2 | news hours Tim Franks asked him what the GHF are doing to stop people dying around their |
| 1:08.5 | distribution sites. We're not actually sure that all of this information that's being, you know, |
| 1:14.6 | distributed every single day is entirely accurate. We're quite certain that a huge |
| 1:19.5 | percentage of it is part of a significant disinformation effort to try to both discourage |
| 1:25.2 | Gazans from coming to get our assistance and also to sort of |
| 1:27.9 | try to get us to fold up our operation. In most circumstances, we've, we haven't been able to, |
| 1:33.9 | you know, identify anything, anything happening. Certainly there are people dying every day |
| 1:38.0 | in the Gaza Strip. It is an active war zone. We are not doing this work in the middle of a ceasefire. |
| 1:43.7 | We're doing it in the middle of a |
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