00:00And Trent, are the killings near the Gaza aid center deepening criticism of Israel's new distribution system, which we know is backed by the U.S.?
00:11Well, we know the U.N. and several of the other aid groups on the ground are refusing to cooperate with the GHF, the new U.S.-backed group.
00:21They had been calling into question safety procedures and whether this was a safe mechanism to deliver the aid.
00:30The U.N.'s assessment is that it wasn't.
00:33And they are now, as you would imagine, pointing at these incidents that we have seen and are calling for an international investigation to try and work out why gunfire keeps being reported
00:46at aid delivery distribution sites being operated by this U.S.-backed group.
00:52We heard from the U.N. Human Rights Chief, Volker Turk, who has decried these deadly attacks, as he described them, on civilians and has called them a war crime.
01:02We also know, of course, that the U.N. is now calling for an international investigation to try and work out exactly why these are...
01:12Sorry, I'm trying to avoid sneezing here.
01:14...to try and work out exactly why gunfire is being reported as civilians are just coming to get their aid.
01:20And we need to remember they are being invited to do this.
01:23They're being encouraged to do this by the GHF, to come to these aid delivery sites.
01:28But it appears that in several instances now, when they arrive upon being invited, that there is gunfire being reported.
01:36One would imagine that is not good for building trust on the ground around this new aid delivery mechanism,
01:41which both Israel and the U.S. has been putting high hopes on as a way to try and wrestle control of aid away from Hamas warehouses.
