Shaina Low: Gaza desperately needs fuel

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The spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council Shaina Low highlights the urgent need for fuel in Gaza to power trucks, machinery, and essential stores.

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00:00I'm just trying to imagine what the immediate needs are, but I'm assuming it's things like fuel, food, medicine.

00:07I mean, what are the main needs at this particular moment in those worst affected areas?

00:13Well, I think we have to be recognised that just because the bombs have stopped falling

00:19does not mean that the emergency or the crisis has ended.

00:22It just means that we finally have an operating environment where we can scale up and surge our supplies.

00:28And so the basic essentials are still what's needed.

00:32Food, water, medicine, essential shelter items, and of course fuel,

00:40because that's needed to, one, power the trucks, the machinery to remove the rubble, the bakeries.

00:46And that's one of the most important things, which has really struggled to get up to the northern parts of Gaza.

00:52We've heard of one convoy that's made it there since the ceasefire went into effect,

00:57and we're continuing to push to allow more fuel trucks to enter north Gaza and Gaza City directly

01:03to be able to power those bakeries, those generators at hospitals,

01:07and the machinery that's needed to fuel the response.

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