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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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The U.N. says people in Gaza are under “famine-like conditions.” Ciarán Donnelly, SVP for International Programs with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), joins host Krys Boyd to discuss starvation in the Gaza strip, how it’s especially impacting children and what’s keeping food aid groups from helping.
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| 1:00.1 | So the images we're seeing from Gaza, a violent panic at food distribution sites, of babies like skeletons, dying because their mothers can't produce milk to nurse them and can't get |
| 1:04.7 | their hands on formula, those things don't have to happen. |
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| 1:13.5 | blame being lobbed back and forth, the war in Gaza that has displaced nearly two million people, |
| 1:19.4 | Israeli blockades of humanitarian aid deliveries, seizures of some supplies that do get through |
| 1:24.5 | by Hamas fighters, who some say benefit from the global attention to the starvation of Gaza's civilians. |
| 1:30.3 | There are also people working under desperate conditions to keep that population alive. |
| 1:35.3 | And many, including my guests, say the only way to truly end the suffering will be for the warring parties to end the fighting permanently. |
| 1:42.3 | Kieran Donnelli is Senior Vice President for International Programs at the International Rescue Committee, |
| 1:48.0 | which has been providing food, cash assistance, and hygiene and sanitation in Gaza. |
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