Gaza aid flow increased but not enough

AlArabiya English

The flow of aid into Gaza has increased since the ceasefire, but it still is not enough to “undo 15 months of deprivation,” Tess Ingram, spokesperson for UNICEF Gaza, tells Al Arabiya News.  #Gaza #UNICEF

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00:00Okay, let's talk about the situation in Gaza and what you've been seeing. The ceasefire

00:05appears to be holding. Part of the ceasefire meant that aid was supposed to be allowed

00:11through and to cross without too many restrictions. Do you get the impression that aid is reaching

00:18everyone that needs it there in Gaza?

00:20Not yet, but we're certainly trying. The volume of aid has increased dramatically since the

00:25ceasefire. We've gone up now to, as an international humanitarian community, 600 trucks a day,

00:31which is a great achievement considering that what we were doing before was really limited.

00:38It shows that we were capable of delivering this volume of aid throughout the war, but

00:43we had so many restrictions on our ability to bring that aid in and to move across the

00:48Gaza Strip that prevented us from really delivering humanitarian assistance to the people that

00:52needed it. So the aid is coming in, but what we can't get in in two weeks is not enough

00:58to undo 15 months of deprivation. So there are, of course, people who are still in tremendous

01:03need like this family today who are asking me for winter clothes for their children,

01:07for tarpaulins to build shelter because they have nowhere to live. One of the children

01:11didn't have shoes. People are still asking for water, for food and for medicine. So there

01:16is going to be a lot more that needs to come in to meet people's basic needs before we

01:21even begin about thinking about longer term needs.

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