Shaina Low: Refugee camps in Gaza overcrowded

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The spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council Shaina Low highlights overcrowded refugee camps in Gaza as another challenge for delivering effective aid.  #Gaza

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00:00But in terms of managing the crisis, is it easier for an NGO like yours or for

00:05other aid organizations to manage the crisis when people are in camps?

00:10Because obviously they're then more concentrated, distribution presumably is

00:16easier, isn't it, when people are all in the same place than when they're

00:18scattered more broadly? I think it's hard to know which is

00:25preferable because also we have to remember that the camps and the

00:29informal sites that displaced Palestinians have been living in are

00:34incredibly overcrowded, there's challenges in getting aid to those areas

00:38because of how tightly packed they were, difficulty in installing sanitation

00:43facilities, and so in some ways having people more spread out gives people a

00:49little bit more space, a little bit more dignity. Of course we'll have to, one of

00:53the challenges as we've witnessed, as you said, 200,000 people moving today alone

00:58and with this mass movement it means that as humanitarian agencies we need to

01:03be really agile in terms of identifying needs and ensuring that we're meeting

01:07people where they are and providing what they need.

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