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00:00In the last hour, the Israeli military has announced a pause in fighting in three areas for humanitarian purposes.
00:07Now, this is the scene looking into Gaza from Israel.
00:11The IDF says starting today between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. local time,
00:16there will be a pause in military activity in Al Mawasi, Deir al-Bala and Gaza City every day until further notice.
00:25It is to allow the safe passage of United Nations and humanitarian aid organization convoys.
00:33Now, Egyptian TV has shown these pictures of aid trucks lining up at the border before moving off, driving towards the Gaza Strip.
00:44The Israeli move, which includes opening so-called humanitarian corridors,
00:49comes after mounting international pressure and warnings of mass starvation of Palestinians in the territory.
00:55The Israeli military says its planes also dropped seven packages of aid into Gaza earlier this morning,
01:01containing flour, sugar and canned food.
01:04The IDF released these pictures of that.
01:06But the aid agencies say the method is inefficient, dangerous and a distraction.
01:12Israeli troops have boarded a boat that was trying to bring aid to Gaza by sea.
01:16The pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition said the vessel Handala was intercepted in international waters.
01:24Video footage showed activists on board with their hands up as soldiers took control before the feed cut out.
01:31Let's go live to our Middle East correspondent, Amir Nader, who's in Jerusalem,
01:35and our Gaza correspondent, Rushdie Abelouf, who joins us from Istanbul.
01:40Amir, if I can start with you, what do we know about this breaking news of these pauses in fighting in some areas of Gaza?
01:47Well, the areas that they've announced are areas that the Israeli military has previously told Palestinians to go to.
01:58Areas such as El Mawasi, which is a huge tent encampment home to thousands of Palestinians who've been displaced there throughout the war.
02:06So these are already supposed to be areas that are safer areas than elsewhere in Gaza,
02:12where the fighting is supposed to be happening at a higher intensity.
02:16I think the more significant element of this statement is the announcement around humanitarian convoys.
02:23Humanitarian agencies have said one of the issues that they face while trying to bring aid into the Gaza Strip
02:28is that their convoys are often attacked by the Israeli military and then they struggle to get permissions to deliver that aid.
02:37When they do get it, it's unsafe for the civilians that crowd around it.
02:41We saw deadly incidents this weekend and last weekend.
02:44So if there's going to be a safe route from the borders of Gaza through to the humanitarian areas,
02:51such as El Mawasi and the areas where Palestinians are,
02:54that could indeed actually have a significant effect on the ability of Palestinians to access aid in Gaza.
03:01Yes, it is interesting.
03:02The statement from the IDF says this was coordinated with the United Nations.
03:06We've also seen early this morning airdrops by the Israelis.
03:15That's right.
03:15I mean, I think critics might say that that will do more to sort of have a comms benefit for Israel
03:26than an actual impact on the humanitarian situation on the ground.
03:30What humanitarian agencies say Palestinians need is for the Gaza Strip to be flooded with convoys of aid trucks,
03:38not seven packages dropped from the air.
03:40Obviously, Jordan is looking at doing some airdrops too with coordination with the UK after approval from Israel.
03:48But humanitarian aid agencies say that airdrops are not the solution.
03:52They're ineffective.
03:53They are dangerous.
03:55Gaza is not far away.
03:56It's not a remote territory.
03:58They just need to allow much more, many more trucks to be delivered inside the Gaza Strip.
04:04Amir, you mentioned the communication side of things.
04:08How much do you think what Israel is doing over the last 24 hours is because of that mounting international pressure
04:16and the pictures that all of us have seen coming out of Gaza?
04:21I think it's under huge pressure internationally amongst its allies, amongst the international community, the aid community.
04:30And clearly it wants to be seen to respond.
04:33And I guess what we're trying to analyze is whether the responses that it's announcing will actually have the kind of effects that the humanitarian community are calling for.
04:47In the statement that Israel put out yesterday evening, they actually denied that there's a starvation crisis in Gaza.
04:54And they said that they want to enforce these changes in order to refute the false claim of deliberate starvation.
05:01So we're in this weird position where Israel is saying it's going to make some changes to the delivery of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip,
05:08but at the same time saying that there isn't a crisis.
05:12Amir, for the moment, thank you.
05:13Let's go to our Gaza correspondent, Rushdie Avaluf, who is in Istanbul.
05:16In Istanbul, Rushdie, I know you have your family, some of it, in Gaza, and you talk to a lot of people there.
05:24What is the situation like at the moment?
05:30Well, look, people hoped for a better permanent solution, but in general, they welcomed.
05:36The very few people who have access to the social media were posting all night and this morning that this is a good move.
05:42At least we will, some food will be allowed in the airdrop.
05:48Last night was a chaotic scene.
05:50I've seen videos and pictures of people fighting each other.
05:54I mean, punching each other to take some of the food.
05:57This is just to show you how desperate the people who are starving for the food.
06:02Five, six, I think seven packages were counted in the northwest of Gaza area called Sudania, near the Gaza City,
06:12where we believe maybe 200,000 people are living in tents in the area.
06:17Most of them were evacuated from northern Gaza and eastern Gaza, where there is active Israeli military operation in the area.
06:26So all eyes are on the border and people are waiting for the food to come in because what has been allowed in the last week,
06:36which is considered the most difficult week since the beginning of the war,
06:41people are waiting for the aid to be in and to be distributed,
06:46not to be sent to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, where people walk,
06:50I mean, for hours sometimes to get to a very dangerous area, about a thousand people were killed there.
06:57People were all the time demanding that food should be handed over to the UN agencies and to be distributed to the people.
07:05Well, I think it is very early to judge whether the amount allowed will be changed, the crisis,
07:12but it's a good move considered by all Palestinians.
07:15Yes, because the aid agencies say they have those trucks at the border and we've seen pictures of them moving from Egypt.
07:24But it is that issue that we mentioned with Amir.
07:28It's about the safety of getting those supplies in.
07:35Yes, because, you know, about 60 percent of Gaza now are under Israeli security control,
07:41especially the area where the cruisings that is allowed food in, like Kerem Shalom cruising in Rafah.
07:47The entire city of Rafah is under Israeli control.
07:51You know, there is active troops inside it and there is fighting every day in that area.
07:55So the trucks, the humanitarian, you know, aid agencies always concern about the safety of the drivers in the trucks.
08:03We need a multiple coordination to enter Rafah first and then to go to the border and collect it.
08:09And they need another coordination to go back to the areas and distribute it.
08:14We understand that they might allow food from three different cruisings today, one in south, one in the north and one in the middle.
08:22So what is the agencies in Gaza are saying that at least they need a 500 to 600 truck every day for at least a month to, you know, to ease some of the crisis related to the food and water.
08:36And most important, not only food, they need medicine for the hospitals and they need the fuel to be able to, you know, run the essential operations in the hospitals in Gaza.
08:47I know this is a difficult question, Rushdie. Is there any optimism amongst the people that you speak to on a daily basis there?
09:00Well, it's hard to find this any level of optimism in Gaza, especially after the, you know, about 48 hours ago,
09:07when the American envoy Steve Whitcoff announced that the Americans and the Israelis are walking away from the, you know, ceasefire talks in Doha.
09:17People were hoping that after months of suffering, the ceasefire will come into place.
09:22The people enjoy a relative calm back in January for about 57 days.
09:28The Israel used to allow hundreds of trucks every day.
09:31The markets were somehow stable and people could start, you know, at least to feel a little bit of relief.
09:38Optimism is something very hard to find in Gaza, but there is always hope that this step will be like a small step considered by them,
09:47but could lead to a bigger step or a permanent ceasefire that end the war.
09:52Rushdie, thank you very much for your time. Appreciate it.
09:55Rushdie talking to us from Istanbul, of course, because Israel does not allow the BBC or other international media into the territory at the moment.
10:04Our world news correspondent, Joe Inwood, now looks at the aid situation and a warning.
10:10It does contain distressing images in this report.
10:15Zainab Abu Halib was just six months old when her parents buried her,
10:19killed not by the violence of war, but by the malnutrition it has brought to Gaza.
10:24She got also bacterial infection and sepsis, so she was unable to swallow,
10:32and she was dead yesterday, came to the hospital as a body because of severe starvation.
10:42There is growing international awareness and anger at the scale of the humanitarian crisis.
10:48Of the nearly 60,000 people who have now been killed since the start of the war, 127 died from malnutrition.
10:55That figure increased by five in just one day, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
11:05To try to tackle the crisis, a series of airdrops have been announced.
11:09The UK has said it is coordinating with Jordan to take part, as it did last year.
11:15These were the scenes then.
11:16But airdrops face logistical challenges.
11:20In the last round of aid flights, the US Air Force said each plane carried around 12,600 meals.
11:27This means it would take 160 flights every day to provide just one meal a day to the population of Gaza.
11:34Now, the combined transport fleet of the UAE and Jordanian Air Forces,
11:38who would carry out the drops, is only around 20 aircraft.
11:41Airdrops could deliver just a tiny fraction of the aid that trucks could.
11:47And that has led to this blunt assessment from a leading aid organisation.
11:52There's an obvious solution in Gaza, which is to open the borders and allow agencies like the IRC,
11:57like our partners in the UN and humanitarian organisations,
12:00to bring aid in and to distribute it, as we would do in any other crisis zone.
12:05Airdrops, fundamentally, are a grotesque distraction from that priority.
12:10We need access, not airdrops.
12:14But the issue of access has been a source of intense argument.
12:18Late last night, Israel announced the opening of a series of humanitarian corridors
12:22to refute what it called the false claim of deliberate starvation in the Gaza Strip.
12:28But its critics will see it as an omission of the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza,
12:34which they say it has caused.
12:36Joe Inwood, BBC News.
12:38Meanwhile, here, the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, says the UK is working with Jordan
12:43on plans to airdrop aid into Gaza and to evacuate children in urgent need of medical care.
12:49Our political correspondent, Ben Wright, has more.
12:52Well, the horrific situation in Gaza has, of course, caused huge international concern,
12:57and that has mounted in recent days.
12:59On Saturday, Keir Starmer spoke to the German Chancellor and the French President.
13:05The three leaders said that they were appalled by the situation in Gaza,
13:08again called for an immediate ceasefire, and again urged Israel to lift all restrictions on aid
13:14flowing into the territory.
13:17We also know the UK is going to be increasing its contribution and help towards a Jordanian effort
13:22to airlift food and medical supplies into Gaza.
13:26The UK is also going to be starting a new scheme to try and evacuate a relatively small number
13:32of critically injured children in Gaza to the UK.
13:37I think there have been two transfers so far.
13:39The charity behind this wants 30 children to be brought out from Gaza
13:42and evacuated to the UK for treatment as quickly as possible.
13:48Politically, of course, here there is intense growing pressure on the government to do more.
13:55In particular, recognise a Palestinian state.
13:59221 MPs from across the House of Commons signed a letter urging the Prime Minister to follow France's example.
14:06France has said that it will recognise a Palestinian state
14:09when the United Nations meets in New York next month.
14:13So far, though, the government is pushing back on that and holding its long-standing line
14:18that a Palestinian state can only be part of a long-term solution to conflict in the Middle East.
14:25Although the SNP are saying that as soon as Parliament is back after the summer recess,
14:29they're going to be pushing for a vote on that question in the Commons.
14:33But this is occupying a lot of thinking in government at the moment.
14:37And, of course, Keir Starmer is meeting President Trump tomorrow, Monday, in Scotland for talks.
14:43And Gaza will, of course, well, I'd be surprised if it didn't, feature in their discussions.
14:50That's Ben Wright.
14:50And a reminder, we have a live page running with the latest on that announcement from Israel
14:56of those tactical pauses in fighting in three parts of Gaza
14:59and the fact they're going to open aid corridors.
15:02You'll find that on the BBC News website and app.
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