Human rights lawyer: Israel blocks aid to Gaza

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Israel is preventing aid from getting into Gaza, leading to severe shortages and worsening the humanitarian crisis, human rights lawyer and former Palestinian peace negotiator Diana Buttu says. #Israel #Gaza

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00:00But just to pick up on what you were saying with regards to the humanitarian aid, I mean,

00:04it's been, what, nearly three weeks, hasn't it, since any humanitarian aid has been allowed

00:08in.

00:09And I'm just wondering, how do people survive?

00:11What are you hearing?

00:12I don't think they are surviving, Michael.

00:13That's the problem.

00:15So the Israelis closed off the crossing point on March the 2nd.

00:20And I want to be very clear here.

00:21This isn't Israel that's providing aid.

00:23This is the world that's providing aid.

00:25And Israel is simply not allowing it in.

00:27And so since March the 2nd, Israel hasn't allowed in any aid whatsoever, which means

00:32that there's no fuel, there's no electricity, there's no places to get clean water, and

00:39there's no food.

00:41People are reporting mass malnutrition, particularly amongst children.

00:46And as you know, after 18 months, or nearly 18 months, of genocide, in which Israel has

00:52been targeting virtually every hospital, you can see that the health care system is also

00:57dilapidated.

00:58So we're seeing that in addition to the numbers of people that Israel is directly targeting

01:03and killing through its bombs, that others are dying as well, because they're not simply

01:08able to get the aid that the international world, that the world has sent to Gaza, but

01:14that Israel is preventing from getting in.

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